Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. — Joseph Joubert 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
...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
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. — Jennifer Donnelly 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
Merit is never so conspicuous as when coupled with an obscure origin, just as the moon never appears so lustrous as when… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
“I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning.… — Alfred Hayes Copy Share Image
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind… — Thomas Merton 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
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I think kids in Europe have developed a deeper knowledge of music and of black music in particular. You go to Europe,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
The dismal half-baked images of the average "reportage" and "documentary" photography are self dammning... the slick manner, the slightly obscure significance, the… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and… — Bai Juyi Copy Share Image
“The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds -… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France? — William Alexander Percy Copy Share Image
Many words will be written on the wind and the sand, or end up in some obscure digital vault. But the storytelling… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
... the modern state masks itself in moral ideologies which obscure its actual conduct. One of the most compelling and insidious of… — Donald Livingston Copy Share Image
Good design, at least part of the time, includes the criterion of being direct in relation to the problem at hand -… — Ivan Chermayeff Copy Share Image
Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives. — Robert Jenson Copy Share Image
I have always argued that we can't live by or be made to exist outside of mythology, and that every group and… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I am interested in entertaining people, in bringing pleasure, particularly laughter, to others, rather than being concerned with 'expressing' myself with obscure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
