Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Bissell

Games tell stories best when they're elliptical and ambiguous and there's a sense of roaming and freedom.

Emily Blunt

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

Nuclear weapons, nuclear programs are not something that one should leave in an ambiguous state.

Jenji Kohan

Pot is a vehicle for the show. It's so in the zeitgeist. It's talked about in the news, in the courts. It's a morally ambiguous narcotic (and) the universal rebellion drug.

Daniel Quinn

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

Daniel H. Wilson

The complicated, ambiguous milieu of human contact is being replaced with simple, scalable equations. We maintain thousands more friends than any human being in history, but at the cost of complexity and depth. Every minute spent online is a minute of face-to-face time lost.

CeeLo Green

My style is ambiguous and lucid. I wish to be signified but not summed up. I don't want to have to go over the top each time.

Harmony Korine

If I see something that's morally ambiguous or ambiguously beautiful or has some pull in some way, I won't censor myself; I always run towards the light.

Kelsey Chow

I enjoy having the ability to play a variety of ethnicities. Being ethnically ambiguous allows me to explore many roles, and I enjoy being free to be whoever I want to be.

Greg Behrendt

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

I think the instruction is Rome's answer to all the different pressures brought to bear on it, ... It's presented in a somewhat ambiguous fashion with in-house vocabulary that allows for a range of interpretation to be taken from it. A lot will depend on where the bishop falls on the issue beforehand.

Liu's case could serve as a warning to those who attempt to breach athletes' rights by ambiguous means. His appeal could enhance the awareness of athletes' legal rights.

Hence, low bond yields are ambiguous for policy. It's a classic on the one hand, on the other hand speech.

I think it is fair to say that during World War II there was a high sense of purpose. The country had a very clear vision of its own standing, of its own morality. It was not an ambiguous time. Today, we live in a world that is highly ambiguous, very fractured, with many of the historical, traditional values in a state of collapse, really.

Hugh Dancy

As always, there's a couple of things in the pipeline - but that pipeline is a strange and ambiguous place.

We're bringing the real world insofar as we can through stories into your living room, and we're trying to use the power of stories to illuminate morally complicated and morally ambiguous situations in the grand tradition

The government has only made cosmetic changes to its vague and ambiguous proposal. Their plan remains unprecedented, excessive, and harmful. The exercise of the past few days does not substitute in any way for a legitimate process, in which Microsoft could have challenged the government's assumptions and assertions related to its unprecedented breakup plan and draconian regulations.

August Wilson

to register the ambiguous presence of white folks in a segregated black world -- the way you see them nowhere and feel them everywhere.

Fred Thompson

We've made some mistakes in this country in times past - the Korean conflict proceeding that, some say proceeding the Persian Gulf War, where we were ambiguous as to what we would do.

There is nothing ambiguous about what Arts-Studio.com is doing. It is a clear and blatant violation of copyright law. When you use something for your own financial gain that someone else created, that is stealing.

Mitch Daniels

Courts recognized Mr. Baird as suffering from mental illness at the time he committed the murders, and Indiana Supreme Court Justice Ted Boehm recently wrote that Mr. Baird is 'insane in the ordinary sense of the word.' It is difficult to find reasons not to agree, ... However, I reached today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity. To me, it suffices to note that, had the sentence of life without parole been available in 1987, the jury and the State would have imposed it with the support of the victims' families.

Sasha Cohen

I shall leave you with an ambiguous answer.

The rules are ambiguous and you can't call up (Voters Services) and get an opinion, ... In 1999 that was (a) result of erroneous instructions that we got from Voter Services. I'm very skeptical.

I wanted it to be really ambiguous so people could read into it their own way.

James Ellroy

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

Richard Eyre

Governments have always been wary of the arts because they're wayward and ambiguous and because they deal with feelings rather than facts.

The idea is that your body, on this very deep, unconscious level, is controlling a virtual person. It's a much more complex, ambiguous type of interactivity, but it's very real interactivity.

Mitch Daniels

However, I reach today's decision without substituting my judgment for others on the ambiguous issue of Mr. Baird's degree of insanity,

If the nature of the report paves the way for some sort of permanent mechanism, that could help tremendously. But if its ambiguous or hostile towards the idea, then we will be in the exact same position as we were this time around.

Clive Barker

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

Dan Pallotta

You can't know if your values are being violated if you're ambiguous about what they are

Leo Rosten

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

Joe Carnahan

I love the ambiguous kind of endings. I think, oftentimes, that's what life really is - there's no concrete path for you to take. It's always kind of a jumble of variables. Behind this door could be a beautiful woman, and behind the same door could be a tiger, you know? You don't know.