People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. — James Kern Feibleman Copy Share Image
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
A government official is a man who has risen from obscurity to something worse. — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Obscurity is dispelled by augmenting the light of discernment, not by attacking the darkness. — Socrates Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution… — Igor Markevitch Copy Share Image
“Without good personal brands, whatever you do may not be accepted and patronized; without any brand at all, you may do something… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
“You are like a city on the hill; you can't be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you desire the path of sincerity, develop a love for obscurity. Flee from the clatter and clinks of fame. Be like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Twofold misjudgement. - The misfortune suffered by clear-minded and easily understood writers is that they are taken for shallow and thus little… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I hate set dissertations,--and above all things in the world, 'tis one of the silliest things in one of them, to darken… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me… — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations… — Joseph Fourier Copy Share Image
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of… — Anna Komnene Copy Share Image
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes. — Robert Ripley Copy Share Image
I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
“As Life saunters onward toward oblivion, I am left to peer through the veil of obscurity, and gawk at the contrast between… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
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