In the context of our present pervasive madness that we call normality, sanity, freedom, all our frames of reference are ambiguous and… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
If you have the personalities down, you understand them and identify with them; you can stick them in any situation and have… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It… — Joel Coen Copy Share Image
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality." — Gillo Dorfles Copy Share Image
Oakland Technical High School. Like any high-school experience, it was ambiguous. I was shy with girls; I had friends, but there were… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
“Looking but not seeing is the hearing but not understanding of the eye.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary… — Michael Muhney Copy Share Image
Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I do sometimes play characters that are a bit ambiguous. You've got to be brave about that sort of stuff. I like… — Andrew Scott Copy Share Image
The emperor of the East was no longer guided by the wisdom and authority of his elder brother, whose death happened towards… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
It's relatively easy to create an ambiguous character. Any conglomeration of likable and unlikeable traits, chosen at random, will result in an… — Matt Bird Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
A sneeze travels at a peak velocity of two hundred miles per hour. A burp, more slowly; a fart, slower yet. But… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Memory's so treacherous. One moment you're lost in a carnival of delights with poignant childhood aromas, the flashing neon on puberty, all… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
We live in a world shaped by the ambiguous legacy of the Enlightenment...[it] enlarged the scope of human freedom, prepared our minds… — James Q. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Russian proposal is ambiguous. If they want to propose enrichment (only) in Russia we have said it is not acceptable. But… — Hamid-Reza Assefi Copy Share Image
Ger-mans love the ambiguous word, verbal assonances as ends in themselves,vague concepts. Anglosaxons are more clear. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has… — Susan Collins Copy Share Image
Labels not only free us from the obligation to think creatively; they numb our sensibilities, our power to feel. During the Vietnam… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has… — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
