Ambiguous Expression Quotes

terminological inexactitude

The thoughts I express, whether clearly or ambiguously, are my own and they are my individual responsibility.

Meow is like aloha - it can mean anything.

Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.

My voice is like a rumour. I'm not sure if it came out or not, or if it is true.

The phrase 'I just turn on my monkey and it makes me feel good' sounds very dirty, but I can't explain why. It's great to try to use expressions like that on the comics page. People want to complain but they can't, because they can't figure out quite what they should be complaining about.

A figure of speech is a shifty thing; it can be twisted or it can be straight.

I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?

Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure - to say things that are suggestive and nuanced, rather than clear and comprehensible, things you wouldn't put up with in an essay or something written by a stranger - and that can be so exciting.

nothing she did or said was quite what she meant but still her life could be called a monument shaped in a slant of available light and set to the movement of possible music

Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through symbol systems in which every element has multiple meanings determined by juxtaposition.

There are eyes half defiant, Half meek and compliant; Black eyes, with a wondrous, witching charm To bring us good or to work with harm.