“All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I think for some time, issues of antitrust were viewed as somewhat arcane. — Lina Khan Copy Share Image
When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned. — Lesley Sharp Copy Share Image
We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection. — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
“This is how you hustle the arcane. Skirt the rules but don’t break them.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution. — Elizabeth Wein Copy Share Image
True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down. — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had… — Uma Thurman 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
The world rarely shrieks its meaning at you. It whispers, in private languages and obscure modalities, in arcane and quixotic imagery, through… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies,… — Shereen El Feki Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of… — Anton Szandor LaVey Copy Share Image
Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to… — William Safire Copy Share Image
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the… — John Szarkowski Copy Share Image
“The rites of passage in the academic world are arcane and, in their own way, highly romantic, and the tensions and unplesantries… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist.… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
We should take comfort in two conjoined features of nature: first, that our world is incredibly strange and therefore supremely fascinating, second,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Amanda Petrusich’s fascinating and insightful journey into the arcane netherworld of 78 records and its bring-‘em-back-alive collectors brims with the joy and… — Lenny Kaye Copy Share Image
The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud. — Emanuel Ax Copy Share Image