Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Below the surface stream, shallow and light, Of what we say and feel below the stream, As light, of what we think… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground. — Adrian Younge Copy Share Image
Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep… — Ramit Sethi Copy Share Image
He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I love memoirs, particularly obscure ones because the writer is usually a regular guy just telling what happened to him and to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Students may feel the criticism is harsh, but I think it's possible they haven't had criticism before. It's my job to point… — Louise Wilson Copy Share Image
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant. — Mikhail Tukhachevsky Copy Share Image
Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma. — Paul Vixie Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Life can be lived as a temporary arrangement. Life is a temporary arrangement! But the longer you go without changing, the more… — Jerry Stahl Copy Share Image
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then… — Luc Delahaye Copy Share Image
Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to… — Cheryl Hines Copy Share Image
Other men are known to posterity only through the medium of history, which is continually growing faint and obscure; but the intercourse… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive....Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies… — Keith Bradsher Copy Share Image
There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
