To mystify, in the active sense, is to befuddle, cloud, obscure, mask whatever is going on, whether this be experience, action, or… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions. — Billy Joel Copy Share Image
If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be… — Hilary Mason Copy Share Image
One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why. — Ardal O'Hanlon Copy Share Image
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind. — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. — Barbara Pym Copy Share Image
“In the world of ideas everything was clear in life all was obscure, embroiled.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright,… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Language-wise, my mom and dad's dialect, they're pretty obscure. It's Chinese, but not your traditional Chinese, like Cantonese or Mandarin. It wasn't… — James Wan Copy Share Image
Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Product of a myriad various minds and contending tongues, compact of obscure and minute association, a language has its own abundant and… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an… — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled… — Edward Coke Copy Share Image
Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Saudi Arabia is so conservative. At first there were photographs of women I took that I couldn't publish - of women without… — Olivia Arthur Copy Share Image
There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Every type of destruction that human philosophy, human science, human reason, human art, human cunning, human force, and human brutality could bring… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
1925's 'The Lost World' is... really, everything a dinosaur movie should be. Like a dinosaur, this classic was once extinct too, existing… — Kage Baker Copy Share Image
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data… — Charles Petzold Copy Share Image
Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure. — Horace Copy Share Image
Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions. — Andre Luiz Moreira Copy Share Image
Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music… — Ethan Coen Copy Share Image
There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty. — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
When I read articles or interviews about building culture, the suggestions are often obscure or hard to replicate. — Jack Conte Copy Share Image
“Who can say what obscure forces were then at work in a heart that had never been tamed?” — Allain Fournier Copy Share Image
I've been away writing songs and recording and doing albums that are much more obscure. — John Waite Copy Share Image
“some somms would offer their favorite obscure wines at a lower markup, then make up the difference with the gimmes.” — Bianca Bosker Copy Share Image
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
On some other world, possibly it is different. Better. There are clear good and evil alternatives. Not these obscure admixtures, these blends,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
It's only been in the past two generations that we truly understood the impact our civilization has had on the natural world.… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
A company has to be like that person who turns his cuffs up a different way, who smokes a certain brand of… — Andy Spade Copy Share Image
