Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never… — Criss Jami 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
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
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
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
Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
I think [James] Joyce sometimes enjoyed misleading his readers. He said to me that history was like that parlor game where someone… — Sylvia Beach Copy Share Image
When an alluring woman comes in at the door," warningly traced the austere Kien-fi on the margin of his well-known essay, "discretion… — Ernest Bramah Copy Share Image
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
It was a dagger in the haughty father's heart, an arrow in his brain, to see how the flesh and blood he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
But that night as I drove back to Montreal, I at least discovered this: that there is no simple explanation for anything… — Hugh MacLennan Copy Share Image
Oddly, since by now I've written quite a lot on early modern philosophers, I didn't care for the history of philosophy, which… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Since the fabric of the universe is most perfect and the work of a most wise Creator, nothing at all takes place… — Leonhard Euler 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There is something obscure which is complete before heaven and earth arose; tranquil, quiet, standing alone without change, moving without peril. It… — Laozi Copy Share Image
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be… — John Ray Copy Share Image
“You must always reserve a question for people who think you are proud when you talk about your dreams! The question is… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the… — Susan Glaspell Copy Share Image
ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of… — Ambrose Bierce 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
...intimacy being reduced to its content of mere sensation, will only be the misleading, obscure, and desperate alleviation of the existential disgust… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
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
Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man… — Omar Bongo Copy Share Image
... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge… — G. H. Hardy Copy Share Image
“Though the immediate impression of rebellion may obscure the fact, the task of authentic literature is nevertheless only conceivable in terms of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“She rested her head on Esther's shoulder and let the fuzzy warmth of her hug flow through her. It was the kind… — Joy Cowley Copy Share Image
It's just so obscure to take a folk song in a different language and be a pretty well-respected English-speaking rock band and… — Zacky Vengeance 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 obvious in "To Kill A Mockingbird," maybe a bit - little bit less obvious and more obscure in "Go Set A Watchman."” quote by Wayne Flynt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/60a/wayne-flynt-65979_bits_i-would-say-what-was-always-on-her-harpe_1575781.jpg)
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