When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
It has always been a favorite idea of mine, that there is so much of the human in every man, that the… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I am Me, You are You, I'm just living my life, you should just live your own life, so take back those… — Kim Heechul Copy Share Image
I wanted to play football or be a boxer, but my dad didn't want that because of all the impact. But in… — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
A disease which new and obscure to you, Doctor, will be known only after death; and even then not without an autopsy… — Herman Boerhaave Copy Share Image
Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand… — Alejandro Ramirez Copy Share Image
He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto. By late… — Steve Hanke Copy Share Image
“The desert and the ocean are realms of desolation on the surface. The desert is a place of bones, where the innards… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
To impress your offer on the mind of the reader or listener, it is necessary to put it into brief, simple language...No… — John Caples Copy Share Image
One of the biggest problems of mathematics is to explain to everyone else what it is all about. The technical trappings of… — Ian Stewart Copy Share Image
But the distant hope of being one day useful or eminent ought not to mislead us too far from that study which… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Finally, to the theme of the respiratory chain, it is especially noteworthy that David Kellin's chemically simple view of the respiratory chain… — Peter D. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I reject karma and rebirth not only because I find them unintelligible, but because I believe they obscure and distort what the… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
It was a part of myself that was my enemy; I still had a childish illusion that the flesh on my own… — MacDonald Harris Copy Share Image
I'm showbiz-fat. It's so funny, in all the reviews that I read, no one wants to use the word 'fat' as an… — Marissa Jaret Winokur Copy Share Image
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch… — Tracy Chapman Copy Share Image
If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and… — Archibald Rutledge Copy Share Image
Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
Solaristics, wrote Muntius, is a substitute for religion in the space age. It is faith wrapped in the cloak of science; contact,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Riskier mortgage lending practices, imposed by government, were what set the stage for many mortgage payments to stop and thus for the… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Depression is something that seems really obscure when you see it in a theater, but when you talk to people who come… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
I am so far from thinking the maxims of Confucius and Jesus Christ to differ, that I think the plain and simple… — Matthew Tindal Copy Share Image
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary… — Bill Toomey Copy Share Image
I would say what was always on her[Harper Lee] mind was the stories she had to tell, and the story was pretty… — Wayne Flynt Copy Share Image
And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development… — Ivor Grattan-Guinness Copy Share Image
A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched… — Moby Copy Share Image
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel… — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The novels that attract me most... are those that create an illusion of transperancy around a knot of human relationships as obscure,… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social… — Seymour Krim Copy Share Image
Astronomy is useful because it raises us above ourselves; it is useful because it is grand; … It shows us how small… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
We take from the art of the past what we need. The variable posthumous reputations of even the greatest artists and the… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
![“Carlsen came with a line that was not very theoretical, trying to challenge the World Champion to play chess. [...] But Anand proved that even this obscure line is something he has studied before, and it was Carlsen that was set back.” quote by Alejandro Ramirez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/dea/alejandro-ramirez-217317_challenges_carlsen-came-with-a-line-that-was-not-ve_1181423.jpg)
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