"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 Quinn

#Ambiguous Quotes #Profession Quotes

“An American Idol is someone that has all the qualities that America thinks is positive, attractive and alluring.”
“I was born in the back seat of a Yellow Cab in a hospital loading zone and with the meter still running. I emerged needing a shave and shouted 'Time Square, and step on it!'”
“My favorite thing in the world is a quiz show, 'University Challenge,' so you can see what kind of sad person I am.”
“The bisy larke, messager of day.”
“With the never-ending stream of new social technologies, apps and platforms rolling out every day, its easy to get lost in the minutiae of social media. Yet for there to be effective change, especially within large, top-down, hierarchical institutions, a company must have an over-arching understanding of the new role it has to play.”
“The Harley's got a little too much torque when it comes to jumping.”
“The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.”
“That though we are certain of many things, yet that Certainty is no absolute Infallibility, there still remains the possibility of our being mistaken in all matters of humane Belief and Inquiry.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1979). “Collected Works of Joseph Glanvill”, Georg Olms Verlag

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