Top 276 Ambiguous Quotes & Sayings

In my own opinions as a judge, I have never yet had occasion to find a statute ambiguous.

Even a cow creates ambiguous signifiers. The moo of mystery.

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

I guess the role of art is to make something that is ambiguous and complex.

On 'Hairless Toys,' I've tried to create an ambiguous character to go with an ambiguous record. She's anything but rock n' roll - she's so not rock n' roll that, in a twisted way, she's kind of radical. She's like someone from my memory, almost like my mother, and she's lost in some space-time between the 1960s and the late '80s.

Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.

Sometimes the government has to answer questions with ambiguous language.

If you've got more ambiguous characters or stock stereotypes, the plastic comes through and they don't work as well.

I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

We will discuss the issue and the rumors surrounding it with the agency. It is not very sensitive or ambiguous.

A scientific prize is an ambiguous thing: it highlights an individual when we should highlight a collective effort, but I'm not alone.

I know a lot of people who hate the ending of 'Rosemary's Baby' and wish that it was left ambiguous.

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

The songs I write are about searching, and they're ambiguous - always to be understood in different ways.

My drawings inspire, and are not to be defined. They place us, as does music, in the ambiguous realm of the undetermined.

The more you talk about - and live by - your principles, the harder it will be for others to treat you in a morally ambiguous manner.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

That no one dies of migraine seems, to someone deep into an attack, an ambiguous blessing.

Life is unresolved, confusing, bewildering, puzzling, ambiguous. You don't really know what's going to happen. The future is uncertain for everybody.

All things will be ambiguous, for this is the curse of wisdom.

My style is ambiguous and lucid.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

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.

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

I left the ending ambiguous, because that is the way life is.

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.

Nobody is ever just a straight up protagonist or antagonist - everybody's morally ambiguous.

I am Indian-American, but I often play ethnically ambiguous roles.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.

The energies of Lagos life- creative, malevolent, ambiguous- converge at the bus stops

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

I call myself an experimental philosopher which is as ambiguous a term as comprehensive anticipatory design scientist.

Testing is the process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous, so as to avoid the unthinkable happening to the anonymous.

History is the only science enjoying the ambiguous fortune of being required to be at the same time an art.

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.

At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

The notion of ambiguity must not be confused with that of absurdity. To declare that existence is absurd is to deny that it can ever be given a meaning; to say that it is ambiguous is to assert that its meaning is never fixed, that it must be constantly won. Absurdity challenges every ethics; but also the finished rationalization of the real would leave no room for ethics; it is because man's condition is ambiguous that he seeks, through failure and outrageousness, to save his existence.

Indira Gandhi had been this very powerful, dominating, ambiguous mother figure. Ambiguous because she was tyrannical, she had imposed...she had suspended Indian democracy for a few years but she also was the woman who had defeated Pakistan in war at a time when most male politicians in India had secretly feared fighting that war, so that here in India even today Indira Gandhi is called by Indian nationalists the only man ever to have governed India.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

Like music my drawings transport us to the ambiguous world of the indeterminate.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

On abortion: We are talking about ambiguous issues of a complicated kind where you have to balance conflicting interests and concerns.

Work is a way of shutting out ambiguous sentiment.

Oral myths are closer to the genetic conclusions than the often ambiguous scientific evidence of archaeology.

I feel really ambiguous about the psychology of people trying to do good in the world.

The ambiguous orientation of Japan drove the country into the position of an invader in Asia.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.

It's relatively easy to create an ambiguous character. Any conglomeration of likable and unlikeable traits, chosen at random, will result in an ambiguous character. Getting an audience to deeply identify with a character, on the other hand, is one of the hardest things in the world to do.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

The 2006 federal Internet gaming statute is not ambiguous. It does not prohibit gambling on fantasy sports.

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

Being culturally ambiguous and having to deal with bullying made me strong and independent.