Arcane Quotes

“Desire is arcane”

— M. Pierce

“All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“In the pursuit of great we failed to do good.”

— Viktor The Machine Herald

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

— Isaac Asimov

“Arcane House she was highly unlikely to”

— Amanda Quick

I myself delve into very arcane things.

— Christopher Guest

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

— Roger Ebert

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

— Milton Friedman

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

— David Levithan

True literacy is becoming an arcane art and the nation [United States] is steadily dumbing down.

— Isaac Asimov

What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane…

— Stephen Lang

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

— Isaac Asimov

“The House is valuable because it is the House. It is enough in and of Itself. It is not the means to…

— Susanna Clarke

When I was in my 20s, I think there was a lot of really arcane male behaviour that wasn't even questioned.

— Lesley Sharp

I think for some time, issues of antitrust were viewed as somewhat arcane.

— Lina Khan

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature…

— Nancy Pearcey

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to…

— William Safire

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

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in…

— Al Gore

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

For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but…

— Charles Bass

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering…

— Christina Baker Kline

We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in…

— Neil Gaiman

In spite of the fact that religion looks backward to revealed truth while science looks forward to new vistas and discoveries, both…

— Paul Davies

The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of…

— Carl Sagan

“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

One of the leading uses of photography by the mass media came to be called photojournalism. From the late 'twenties' to the…

— John Szarkowski

I’ve often wished that I had some suave and socially acceptable hobby that I could fall back on in times like this.…

— Jim Butcher

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

The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man,…

— Aleister Crowley

Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find…

— Roger Ebert

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

— Edward Snowden

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

— Emanuel Ax

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

— Pablo Neruda

“This is how you hustle the arcane. Skirt the rules but don’t break them.”

— Victor LaValle

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

— Warren Buffett

Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

— Isaac Asimov

“It's not enough to give people what they need to survive, you have to give them what they need to live.- Ekko.”

— Ekko from Arcane

“If dangerous ideas didn't excite the imagination, we would never wander astray.”

— Heimerdinger the Revered Inventor

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

— Brian K. Vaughan