Quotes about Obscure

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. Votes: 4

Obscure, like muddy waters. Votes: 3

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail. Votes: 3

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. Votes: 3

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. Votes: 3

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. Votes: 3

Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night. Votes: 3

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it. Votes: 3

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. Votes: 3

The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Votes: 3

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed. Votes: 3

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode. Votes: 3

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing. Votes: 3

God and other artists are always a little obscure..... Votes: 2

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. Votes: 2

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri. Votes: 2

My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar. Votes: 2

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side. Votes: 2

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings? Votes: 2

I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath in the courts of England; I have witnessed a congress in solemn session to give laws to nations;...but dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains at midnight, in a dungeon, in an obscure village of Missouri. Votes: 2

Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you! Votes: 2

Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations drawn over the old maps: it is from this new way of seeing the present that hope emerges for the future...Let us begin to imagine the worlds we would like to inhabit, the long lives we will share, and the many futures in our hands. Votes: 2

Be obscure clearly. Votes: 1

I like what's obscure. Votes: 1

A Constitution should be short and obscure. Votes: 1

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. Votes: 1

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness. Votes: 1

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing. Votes: 1

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure. Votes: 1

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. Votes: 1

It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end. Votes: 1

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns. Votes: 1

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul. Votes: 1

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. Votes: 1

Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians. Votes: 1

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged. Votes: 1

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. Votes: 1

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates. Votes: 1

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them. Votes: 1

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. Votes: 1

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. Votes: 1

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role. Votes: 1

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light. Votes: 1

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website. Votes: 1

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this. Votes: 1

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings. Votes: 1

With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. Votes: 1

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. Votes: 1

One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life. Votes: 1

Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when it emerges from a cloud. Votes: 1

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from. Votes: 1

Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain. Votes: 1

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one, Votes: 1

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way Votes: 1

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars. Votes: 1

Between knowledge of what really exists and ignorance of what does not exist lies the domain of opinion. It is more obscure than knowledge, but clearer than ignorance. Votes: 1

The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer. Votes: 1

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business. Votes: 1

And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them. Votes: 1

Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense. Votes: 1

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor. Votes: 1

The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it. Votes: 1

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. Votes: 1

For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator. Votes: 1

Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will be as forever obscure as Brian Wilson's reasons for the destruction of the tapes for 'Smile.' Votes: 1

The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles. Votes: 1

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. Votes: 1

I'm a little left of center, for sure, with Angels & Airwaves. But even when I get really weird, it's not that weird. It's not like some obscure Sonic Youth record or something. We don't take it quite that far. But what we do like are crescendos, and we do like when a song catches you off guard and it gives you the chills up and down your arms. Votes: 1

Facts can obscure the truth. Votes: 0

Hardship makes the world obscure. Votes: 0

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure. Votes: 0

When the situation is obscure, attack Votes: 0

The future though imminent is obscure. Votes: 0

The past is certain, the future obscure. Votes: 0

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious. Votes: 0

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure. Votes: 0

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes. Votes: 0

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure Votes: 0

I strive to be brief, and become obscure. Votes: 0

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure. Votes: 0

In trying to be concise I become obscure. Votes: 0

Never be so brief as to become obscure. Votes: 0

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years. Votes: 0

Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure. Votes: 0

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. Votes: 0

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. Votes: 0

Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame. Votes: 0

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. Votes: 0

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language. Votes: 0

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. Votes: 0

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure. Votes: 0

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood. Votes: 0

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. Votes: 0

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. Votes: 0

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years! Votes: 0

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning. Votes: 0

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. Votes: 0

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure. Votes: 0

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie. Votes: 0

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure. Votes: 0

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. Votes: 0

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. Votes: 0

Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones. Votes: 0

I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is. Votes: 0

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material. Votes: 0

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure. Votes: 0

Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them. Votes: 0

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. Votes: 0

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth. Votes: 0

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper. Votes: 0

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand. Votes: 0

As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. Votes: 0

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.] Votes: 0

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. Votes: 0

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive Votes: 0

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. Votes: 0

Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting. Votes: 0

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled. Votes: 0

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there. Votes: 0

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. Votes: 0

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man. Votes: 0

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. Votes: 0

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music. Votes: 0

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on. Votes: 0

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. Votes: 0

Yet Glory drags in chains behind her dazzling carthe obscure no less than the noble. Votes: 0

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure. Votes: 0

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts. Votes: 0

Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives. Votes: 0

We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems. Votes: 0

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. Votes: 0

The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse. Votes: 0

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name. Votes: 0

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode Votes: 0

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. Votes: 0

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Votes: 0

I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security. Votes: 0

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. Votes: 0

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer. Votes: 0

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it. Votes: 0

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise. Votes: 0

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness. [Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum Caliginosa nocte premit deus.] Votes: 0

Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant. Votes: 0

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. Votes: 0

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. Votes: 0

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way. Votes: 0

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. Votes: 0

Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history. Votes: 0

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. Votes: 0

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. Votes: 0

Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility. Votes: 0

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. Votes: 0

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us. Votes: 0

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. Votes: 0

And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France? Votes: 0

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. Votes: 0

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history. Votes: 0

Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ. Votes: 0

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer. Votes: 0

We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.... Votes: 0

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure. Votes: 0

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. Votes: 0

The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. Votes: 0

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge. Votes: 0

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester. Votes: 0

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity. Votes: 0

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. Votes: 0

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. Votes: 0

Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations. Votes: 0

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'. Votes: 0

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. Votes: 0

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. Votes: 0

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate. Votes: 0

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style. Votes: 0

A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous Votes: 0

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts. Votes: 0

It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure. Votes: 0

Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited. Votes: 0

Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous Votes: 0

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty. Votes: 0

The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none. Votes: 0

It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change. Votes: 0

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics. Votes: 0

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear. Votes: 0

[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account. Votes: 0

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it. Votes: 0

I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure creative impressions. Votes: 0

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification. Votes: 0

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry. Votes: 0

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God." Votes: 0

All beginnings are somewhat strange; but we must have patience, and little by little, we shall find things, which at first were obscure, becoming clearer. Votes: 0

I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse. Votes: 0

He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure. Votes: 0

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality. Votes: 0

An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought. Votes: 0

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end. Votes: 0

We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. Votes: 0

People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt. Votes: 0

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure. Votes: 0

All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own importance. Votes: 0

I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. Votes: 0

Poverty might make you obscure, but if you continue churning out wisdom to solve more problems and challenges, you will neither remain poor nor die in obscurity. Votes: 0

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words. Votes: 0

The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure, cruel and perverse as possible. Votes: 0

I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars. Votes: 0

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me. Votes: 0

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times. Votes: 0

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure. Votes: 0

Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate and get started? Votes: 0

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way. Votes: 0

In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother. Votes: 0

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing. Votes: 0

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her. Votes: 0

So obscure are the greatest events, as some take for granted any hearsay, whatever its source, others turn truth into falsehood, and both errors find encouragement with posterity. Votes: 0

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity. Votes: 0

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece. Votes: 0

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point - some obscure and secret boundary - a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things. Votes: 0

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around. Votes: 0

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers. Votes: 0

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity. Votes: 0

Bus routes reach the most obscure corners of Paris. There's also the Metro - and especially the great Line No. 1, which runs on tires under the Champs-Elysees and beyond. Votes: 0

Know, O man you are a particle of the supreme feminine being sucked to an obscure vacuum - of a bliss but that we can only name - universe! Votes: 0

I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND OBSCURE, THE IMPRACTICAL AND LOCAL AND SMALL. Votes: 0

I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation. Votes: 0

A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays in the undergrowth, waiting to be discovered. Votes: 0

A company has to be like that person who turns his cuffs up a different way, who smokes a certain brand of cigarette, who wears an obscure vintage watch. Votes: 0

[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I think it was wrong. Votes: 0

We have examined the universe in space and seen that we live on a mote of dust circling a humdrum star in the remotest corner of an obscure galaxy." Votes: 0

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs. Votes: 0

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult. Votes: 0

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists. Votes: 0

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure. Votes: 0

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood. Votes: 0

Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God. Votes: 0

Ecstacy stripped away the user's inhibitions to self-expression. On E, lies are inefficient, and the peculiarities or weaknesses they are meant to obscure no longer seem like offenses against nature. Votes: 0

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it. Votes: 0

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words. Votes: 0

The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line. Votes: 0

Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself. Votes: 0

Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of a desire for fundamental communication with the reader. Votes: 0

I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them. Votes: 0

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music. Votes: 0

To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation. Votes: 0

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed. Votes: 0

I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.' Votes: 0

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it. Votes: 0

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste. Votes: 0

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes. Votes: 0

Every brand builder will face a million temptations to obscure, dilute, or confuse his or her brand message. These temptations fall under two general headings: boredom and the desire for growth. Votes: 0

I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse. Votes: 0

Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore. Votes: 0

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again! Votes: 0

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality. Votes: 0

The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause. Votes: 0

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety. Votes: 0

The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure. Votes: 0

The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you put in the effort, the learning curve is very fast. Votes: 0

At various points in our lives, or on a quest, and for reasons that often remain obscure, we are driven to make decisions which prove with hindsight to be loaded with meaning. (225) Votes: 0

Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong. Votes: 0

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own. Votes: 0

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision. Votes: 0

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. Votes: 0

That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure. Votes: 0

Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this moment is. You won't realize its beauty. Votes: 0

On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends, with no proper tool by which to untangle the components. Votes: 0

There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations which do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything. Votes: 0

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own. Votes: 0

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues. Votes: 0

I am Me, You are You, I'm just living my life, you should just live your own life, so take back those obscure preaching and do what you are supposed to do Votes: 0

...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust and anguish of him who has stumbled into a blind alley. Votes: 0

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face. Votes: 0

I can't impress people with the pedigree of obscure French filmmakers that got me into film. It was Robert Zemeckis and Steven Spielberg. I really thought I wanted to make dumb action movies. Votes: 0

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms. Votes: 0

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure? Votes: 0

The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed. Votes: 0

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception. Votes: 0

The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it. Votes: 0

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun. Votes: 0

Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured. Votes: 0

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Gilbert Jonas, painter, believed in his star.... His own faith was not, however, without its virtues because it consisted in admitting, in some obscure way, that he would obtain many things without deserving them. Votes: 0

It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet - like having my picture or videos online. Votes: 0

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. Votes: 0

From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure: journeys only the privileged feel confident setting off along. Votes: 0

Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse between the author and his fellow-men is ever new, active, and immediate. Votes: 0

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.) Votes: 0

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. Votes: 0

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details. Votes: 0

When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle. Votes: 0

A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas. Votes: 0

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about. Votes: 0

Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and often recondite laws, in the habitual and summary recognition of which scholarship consists. Votes: 0

Mathematics is an obscure field, an abstruse science, complicated and exact; yet so many have attained perfection in it that we might conclude almost anyone who seriously applied himself would achieve a measure of success. Votes: 0

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning. Votes: 0

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it. Votes: 0

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Votes: 0

Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means of clearing up the obscure corners in one's own mind. Votes: 0

...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool. Votes: 0

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure Votes: 0

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see. Votes: 0

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense. Votes: 0

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure Votes: 0

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure. Votes: 0

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration. Votes: -1

My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them. Votes: -1

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is. Votes: -1

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation Votes: -1