Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.
Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
On our first album, 'Sounding the Seventh Trumpet,' we were listening to more obscure heavy metal bands and hardcore bands.
I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your surf trip.
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.
Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.
The more things remain obscure and mysterious, the more they interest me. I even try to find mystery in things that have none.
We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why.
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
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.
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.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.
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.
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.
It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
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.
If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.
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.
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.
Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.
I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
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.
We now eat at the end of a very long and opaque food chain. Food comes to us ready-made in packages that obscure as much information as they reveal.
Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.
I'm never going to be inspired by some obscure film, which isn't to say I don't enjoy that sort of thing. I just want to share my work with everyone.
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.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.
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.
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.
So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that they have to work too hard at it.
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.
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
I admire artists who really take risks and aren't afraid to do smaller movies and obscure, abstract things. It would be really cool if my career neared that.
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.
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.
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.