I wanted to drag Shakespeare from obscurity. I've been a fan my whole life. — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.” — Martin Myers Copy Share Image
“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.” — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“Well, nothing helps an artist’s career more than a little death and obscurity, I always say.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity,… — David Stern Copy Share Image
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“Your dreams are like the market grounds; their locations really matter. If you keep hiding your potentials out of sight, you may… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
“You can't be successful if you are good at hiding yourself! Be success minded; think about uncovering what you know, what you… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Those who know that they are profound strive for clarity. Those who would like to seem profound to the crowd strive for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I… — Iain Matthews Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The ever increasing intensity of despair depends upon the degree of consciousness or is proportionate to this increase: the greater the degree… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are now witnessing, after the slow fermentation of fifty years, a concentration of technical power aimed at the essential determinants of… — C. D. Darlington Copy Share Image
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
