Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame. — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. — Maurice Merleau-Ponty Copy Share Image
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius. — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives. — Robert Jenson Copy Share Image
When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to… — Dick Morris Copy Share Image
Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody… — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
A concealed truth, that's all a lie is. Either by omission or commission we never do more than obscure. The truth stays… — Josephine Hart Copy Share Image
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food. — John Green 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
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
I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they… — Barry Hughart Copy Share Image
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in… — Aung San Suu Kyi 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
What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week -… — Veronica Vasicka Copy Share Image
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Your life may change,… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is… — Michel Foucault 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
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
I know someone who works in a record shop where I live and I'll go in there and he'll play me "Have… — Ian Curtis 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
I need not instruct you of my belief: Time gives all and takes all away ; everything changes but nothing perishes ;… — Giordano Bruno 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
God moves in extremely mysterious, not to say, circuitous ways. God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an… — George Ade Copy Share Image
Karl Popper once advised a student that if he wanted to reap intellectual fame, he should write endless pages of obscure, high-flown… — Anthony de Jasay Copy Share Image
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness.… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure. — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious. — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
