Ambiguity In Literature Quotes

#1. Great art projects a sense of inexhaustibility. In literature, particularly in poetry, this may be accomplished through ambiguity: Beneath each and every meaning that I can descry lie others, so that rereading holds out the prospect of new subtleties, inversions, secret codes and ineffabilities

William T. Vollmann

#2. I'm not a 'Twilight' boy; I'll never be as good looking as those lads, and that's fair enough.

Luke Evans

#3. Political activists rarely like fiction of any kind. Literature is about ambiguity, mixed emotions, and guilty pleasures. Politics is about ideals and action.

Christopher Bram

#4. If you don't have at least a working knowledge of the Hawaiian language ... you can't chant well. You cannot ... receive the images of poetry paints for you. It's like having peas and no pod.

Keali'i Reichel

#5. I love love and falling in love, but it can get pretty flat real fast.

Claire Danes

#6. Shows like 'Top Chef,' 'Hell's Kitchen' have helped bring attention to the culinary world on a whole, but you have to be cautious it doesn't get out of hand.

Geoffrey Zakarian

#7. When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version.

Kathy Griffin

#8. I think we are constantly faced with the same decision. The decision to be blindly obedient to authority versus the decision to try and change things by fighting the powers that be is always, throughout history, the only decision.

Abbie Hoffman

#9. Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

Michael Newdow

#10. Whether by plane, bus or carpet,
own the magic in your ride.

Gina Greenlee

#11. Reach for the moon
the worst that can happen
is you will fall among the stars

Tony Orlando

#12. I like presenting ambiguous situations. It seems to me a great part of our inner and outer lives are ambiguous, if we're honest about it. Maybe I'm a realist, in that respect.

Eric Basso

#13. You never even decided that your life would be this way. It's simply the way it's become. You've been carved out by the things that have happened to you like how the canyon can't tell the river which way to shape it. It just allows it to be cut.

Nathan Hill

#14. Reagan's failure to become a truly great movie star has been ascribed to project menace, sexuality, or even moral ambiguity.

Scott Farris

#15. The sky is in bloom when I am with you...

Sinovuyo Nkonki

#16. Just remember, their fans think their players are supermen. We'll we're the kryptonite, and we're going to win.

Jim Larranaga

#17. I think that the basic philosophy was very good. It was just be nice to each other, and don't step on other people's toes and infringe on their freedom.

Kevin Ayers

#18. [Metaphors] replace genuine uncertainty about the world with semantic ambiguity. A metaphor is a cover-up.

Amos Tversky

#19. You knew you couldn't reason with him. Not in the state he'd created for himself.

Ronlyn Domingue

#20. Oh, I see. I'm the wicked Grisha seductress. I have beguiled you with my Grisha wiles!"
She poked him in the chest.
"Stop that."
"No. I'm beguiling you.

Leigh Bardugo