Sir Frederick Pollock, 3rd Baronet Quotes

We find few disputes, that are not founded on some ambiguity in the expression [thereof].

When we use terms we get confused, yet we have no other way.

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means.

I don't understand the word 'hunk.'

Any order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood

A lot of things get misinterpreted with me, I guess.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.

I don't really know what 'community' means. And I never use that word.

My whole life, people have been like, 'I don't know if you're playing or serious.'

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.

There's a gray area there that I'm satisfied is not gray.

What does 'dating' mean? I don't know. I couldn't say.

The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.

If I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

Lady Gaga said to me, 'You showed me how it's done.' I have no idea what she meant by 'it.'

Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.

The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.

I'm usually very attracted to things that I can't define. If something's too clear, it's very often not inspiring to me anymore.

Part of what confuses people in times of upheaval is that you're getting so many different points of view and directions and so and so, how to do this and do that. And a lot of it is written in a language that honestly most people cannot understand.

As men are killed by fighting, the truth is lost in disputing.

Designer' is meant to mean whatever it means.

There can be an easy way to interpret things some times and it seems like maybe I'm on the wrong side of those interpretations a lot of those times.