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Murky language means someone wants to pick your pocket. -- Erica Jong
'Sons of Anarchy' is always murky. -- Theo Rossi
Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does. -- Jerry Garcia
Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. -- Susan Sontag
Children have very sharp powers of observation - probably sharper than adults - yet at the same time their emotional reactions are murky and much more primitive. -- Donna Tartt
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. -- Augustus
Socialised humanity represses nature and degrades human nature; it takes life and waters it down - probably to control it - diluting existence with water that is lukewarm, sweet and murky. -- Michael Leunig
Death just comes, not happiness. Because when you're trying to find happiness, you're trying to navigate a very, very murky minefield of distractions, of disappointments, of deceptions. That's why you have to work on happiness. -- Ian K. Smith
I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible. -- Patrick Modiano
In my standup work, I always do these characters, older people who are just off to the side. It's easier to write a story about the guy who made it to the top, but the middle is so much more interesting, so much more murky. -- Billy Crystal
Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first steps on the road to life, but little progress has been made. Perhaps that is no surprise, given life's stupendous complexity. -- Paul Davies
Any American who has spent time in Iraq or Afghanistan will tell you: the closer you get, the less certain you are of anything. If you are in Iraq, if you are in Afghanistan, everything is ambiguous. Everything is murky and gray and uncertain and possibly lethal. -- Dexter Filkins
I never hand in a book until it's completed. Richard Jackson then reads it and asks me to clarify murky points. We work very well together. He knows how hard to push, and I know how hard to push back. He's the only person who can criticize my work without me throwing a hissy fit. -- Nancy Farmer
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication; the space guided by translation and misinterpretation. -- Taryn Simon
I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie. -- Scott Ritter
...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters... -- John Geddes
Photographic fantasy: more agile and faster in discoveries than murky subconscious processes! -- Salvador Dali
Stir not murky waters if you know not the depth or the creatures that dwell beneath the surface. -- Bryan Davis
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings -- John Keats
So scented the grim Feature, and upturn'd His nostril wide into the murky air, Sagacious of his quarry from so far. -- John Milton
Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see. -- Vilmos Zsigmond
At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room. -- H. L. Mencken
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness... bright ideas are preceded by a gestation period that is interior, murky, and completely necessary. -- Julia Cameron
The night had darkened to the murky sort where the air hung like descending clouds and the overhead branches made the liquid darkness even more impenetrable. -- Katherine McIntyre
From this point forth, we shall be leaving the firm foundation of fact and journeying together through the murky marshes of memory into thickets of wildest guesswork. -- J. K. Rowling
A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts. -- Martha Beck
And the eye became a body, the murky heart of a rose. The sinister shadow of an orchid. Or the indolent poppy balanced behind the ear of Baudelaire. -- Patti Smith
When being objective, we can transcend and look back at our constructs with powerful clarity; instead of looking through them, which can give a murky and distorted view. -- Jay Woodman
You need demarcation." "Demarcation?" I asked. "It means a clear separation between two things," he told me. "A solid end before a clean beginning. No murky borders. Clarity. -- Sarah Dessen
The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness. -- Gautama Buddha
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in the murky realm of the unconscious mind. -- Augustus
All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism. -- Jeanne Marie Laskas
The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another. There is no murky pit of hell awaiting anyone. -- Lucretius
If our greatest fear is to sink away alone and unremembered, the brutality that time will inflict upon each of us will always run stronger than any river's murky waves. -- Miguel Syjuco
With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists. -- Joe McGinniss
The buildings appear to be glued together, mostly small houses and apartment blocks that looked nervous. There is murky snow spread out like carpet. There is concrete, empty hat-stand trees, and gray air. -- Markus Zusak
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations? -- Sengcan
When thought is in bondage the truth is hidden, for everything is murky and unclear, and the burdensome practice of judging brings annoyance and weariness. What benefit can be derived from distinctions and separations~? -- Sengcan

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