Because of the confusion surrounding the term "agnosticism," it would seem better to use the very similar term "rationalism" in its place… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
The attributes of liminality are necessarily ambiguous... Liminal entities are neither here nor there; they are betwixt and between the positions assigned… — Victor Turner Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
By the time the average person finishes college, he or she will have taken over 2,600 tests, quizzes, and exams. The right… — Roger von Oech Copy Share Image
Language in art remains a highly ambiguous transaction, a quicksand, a trampoline, a frozen pool which might give way under you ...… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone… — Felix Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
When something happens far back in the past, people often can't recall exact details. Blame depends upon point of view. There may… — Hallie Ephron Copy Share Image
Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
There's the ambiguity of human relationships, for instance. A relationship between two people, just like a sequence of words, is ambiguous if… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had… — Friedrich St. Florian Copy Share Image
I'm very, very attracted to morally ambiguous characters, not just pure bad guys or pure good guys. — Jonah Hill Copy Share Image
Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month? — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I want the music to be ambiguous. Its tone gives you a context in which to start visualizing what you're feeling with… — Glenn Branca Copy Share Image
I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
I didn't have a perfect model, but I wanted to try to blend my own personal reflections and experiences with this broader… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie… — Griffith Edwards Copy Share Image
The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and… — Roman Jakobson Copy Share Image
I wasn't, like, pretty enough to be the ingenue; I wasn't 'character' enough to be the goofball sidekick. I'm kind of ethnically… — Kay Cannon Copy Share Image
I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier. — Alexander Siddig Copy Share Image
If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I… — Harmony Korine Copy Share Image
everything is ambiguous. It's exciting, in a way, if you can tolerate ambiguity. I can't, but I'm taking a course where it's… — Sheila Ballantyne Copy Share Image
What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain.… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
