“He sank back into his black-and-white world, his immobile world of inanimate drawings that had been granted the secret of motion, his… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The writer's job, after all, is not to dictate meaning, but to give the reader enough pieces to create his or her… — Celeste Ng Copy Share Image
On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and… — Patricia Piccinini Copy Share Image
The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I never held Negroes to be inherently inferior. The statement in Marriage and Morals refers to environmental conditioning. I have had it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Some persons never attain to the happy art of perspicuous expression, and it is equally true that some persons, thro' a mental… — Oliver Ellsworth Copy Share Image
If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to. — Crawford Kilian Copy Share Image
I was lucky I guess. My main job was done when I finally found Ben Whishaw and knew that there was someone… — Tom Tykwer Copy Share Image
Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous. — Cheyenne Jackson Copy Share Image
From all human oracles, however self-confident, we turn at last to the inspired Word, where instead of ambiguous and untrustworthy utterances, we… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex. — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
The state of emotional intoxication allows one to grasp existence in one's self and in the other, as both subjectivity and passivity.… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word "race" has a fair claim to being the most… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
War is smaller in scale than in recent memory, but it is far more ambiguous, intractable, and nasty. Money flows more quickly… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
“What is our UN-VICE in the context of Disruption 3.0? To sum up, UN-VICE is an updated way of capturing the state… — Roger Spitz Copy Share Image
Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly… — J. Michael Bishop Copy Share Image
When people first meet me, they're always like, 'What are you?' as far as ethnicity. And I've been pegged as 'ethnically ambiguous.' — Malese Jow Copy Share Image
DJ Spooky was meant to be a kind of ironic take on that. It was always meant to be kind of a… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you… — Isabelle Huppert Copy Share Image
