I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people. — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems. — Christiane Collange Copy Share Image
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper. — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
I keep saying, Shakespeare, Shakespeare, you are as obscure as life is. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about… — John Locke Copy Share Image
The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure. — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics… — Chaz Bundick Copy Share Image
It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end. — Anthony Stafford Beer Copy Share Image
[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I like to allow young readers to keep writing in their heads after they've finished reading. Not to leave the ending too… — Amy King 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
“Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great… — israelmore ayivor 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
“On rare occasions there comes along a profound original, an odd little book that appears out of nowhere, from the pen of… — E. J. Banfield Copy Share Image
Every important social movement reconfigures the world in the imagination. What was obscure comes forward, lies are revealed, memory shaken, new delineations… — Susan Griffin 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
It seems that certain transcendental realities emit rays to which the masses are sensitive. That is how, for example, when an event… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
For most of us, karma and negative emotions obscure the ability to see our own intrinsic nature, and the nature of reality.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
For Spirits when they please Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tied or… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I started asking friends, my white friends around, I said, "What's something that you think all Asians have in common?" They almost… — Simon Tam Copy Share Image