A book is not an end in itself; it is only a way to touch someone - a bridge extended across a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage.… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner. I would not have told the people of Israel to seek me if… — Isaiah Copy Share Image
I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any… — Niels Henrik Abel Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“(Regarding a twenty-questions game:) Did you know that the Russian composer Aram Katchaturian described his ‘Sabre Dance’ as no more than a… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Books are influential in proportion to their obscurity, provided that the obscurity be that of inexpressible Realities. The Bible is the most… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from… — Dan Piraro Copy Share Image
“By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things:… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be… — Bergen Evans Copy Share Image
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis,… — John Clute Copy Share Image
“I believe that if markets were hidden deep in obscured places, it would definitely be impossible for some people to get there… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
media saturation is probably very destructive to art. New movements get overexposed and exhausted before they have a chance to grow, and… — Joyce Johnson Copy Share Image
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend… — Bernard Bailyn Copy Share Image
I always knew that it was going to be an uphill climb to replace Letterman from complete obscurity with no experience, but… — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
Believing is a fine thing, but placing those beliefs into execution is a test of strength. Many are those who talk like… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It… — Elihu Palmer Copy Share Image
It's a culture shock to go from obscurity to notoriety in a flash. Its more to it than talent and money; its… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
The hostility perpetually exercised between one man and another, is caused by the desire of many for that which only few can… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Our senses perceive no extreme. Too much sound deafens us; too much light dazzles us; too great distance or proximity hinders ourview.… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and… — Rupert Sheldrake Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of strength in Garfield's life and struggles as a self-made man… From poverty and obscurity, by labor… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit… — Georges Braque Copy Share Image
He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
