Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

- Jami Attenberg

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.

- Terry Teachout

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

- Susan Collins

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

- Stephen Rea

Once life is finished it acquires a sense; up to that point it has not got a sense; its sense is suspended and therefore ambiguous.

- Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

- M. Night Shyamalan

It's interesting that so many books now are published as the first in a series. It never occurred to me. Although 'The Giver' does have an ambiguous ending. I've heard about that from readers over the years.

- Lois Lowry

Those 12 years, they were ambiguous at best.

- Lindsey Buckingham

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

- Kenzaburo Oe

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

- Keith Richards

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

- Alexei Sayle

The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie is made clear? It doesn't get you anywhere.

- Joel Coen

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

- James Ellroy

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

- James Surowiecki

I feel partly American, but I have an ambiguous relation with both America and India, the only two countries I really know. I never feel fully one way or the other.

- Jhumpa Lahiri

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

- Jerry Garcia

In a very complex way, things have improved in the dramatic field. Before you had the good and the bad and you couldn't mingle them. Now it's more ambiguous.

- Isabelle Huppert

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

- Hugh Dancy

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.

- Emily Blunt

I always end up taking people that are morally ambiguous.

- Billy Crudup