Ambiguous Quote by Frank Herbert Download Open image “Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.” — Frank Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ambiguous Gross Language Machinery Primitive
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Words are powerful. They have the ability to create a moment and the strength to destroy it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Somehow, in the novel format, I don't really like to do upfront, ideological discussion. In my heart, literature remains a poetic and ambiguous medium.… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
Redundancy is ambiguous because it seems like a waste if nothing unusual happens. Except that something unusual happens-usually . — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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I want each poem to be ambiguous enough that its meaning can shift, depending on the reader's own frame of reference, and depending on… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
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My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined. — Odilon Redon Copy Share Image
Wave particle duality is a core feature of our world. Or rather, we should say, it is a core feature of our mathematical descriptions… — Margaret Wertheim Copy Share Image
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I was perceiving myself as good as a man or equal to a man and as powerful and I wanted to look ambiguous because… — Annie Lennox Copy Share Image
