One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad… — Harold Rosenberg Copy Share Image
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 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
If you sincerely desire a truly well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and "nutty." You need the balance! Your… — Ivan Stang Copy Share Image
Whoever knows he is deep tries to be clear, but whoever wants to seem deep to the crowd tries to be obscure.… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and… — Themistocles Copy Share Image
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me… — David Rees Copy Share Image
I don't go to New York. I don't go to parties. I just do my business and study nature. My career is… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I decided to be an actress, and the day after, I was an actress. That was quick and very scary at the… — Carole Bouquet Copy Share Image
“You are like a city on the hill; you can't be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Jazz is not a game of chance. Its sonorous disorder is only an appearance. It is an organized force obeying obscure laws,… — Wanda Landowska 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
Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
Even when men approve of the same arrangements, it must be asked whether they approve of them because they exist or because… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. — Mary Ellen Chase Copy Share Image
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I'm a little left of center, for sure, with Angels & Airwaves. But even when I get really weird, it's not that… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
I have seen ministers of justice, clothed in magisterial robes and criminals arraigned before them, while life was suspended on a breath… — Parley P. Pratt Copy Share Image
Big banks churn out page after page of incomprehensible fine print to obscure the cost and risks of checking accounts, credit cards,… — Elizabeth Warren 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
