Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with… — Henrik Vibskov Copy Share Image
I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast -… — Harland Williams Copy Share Image
We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light… — Katherine Mansfield 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
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
An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is… — Nelson Goodman Copy Share Image
There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special.… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come… — Hans Zimmer Copy Share Image
Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Personal responsibility matters. There are no excuses for those who spend money on things they cannot afford. But it's a whole lot… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
I guess I try and learn all the time from every experience in life, so my thinking is a hybrid of everything.… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
The truth is very important. No matter how negative it is, it is imperative that you learn the truth, not necessarily the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek… — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
My favourite fellow of the Royal Society is the Reverend Thomas Bayes, an obscure 18th-century Kent clergyman and a brilliant mathematician who… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in… — Asti Hustvedt Copy Share Image
We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who… — Jehan Sadat Copy Share Image
You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
In any case, his religious teaching consisted mostly in more or less vague ethical remarks, an obscure mixture of ideals of English… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do. — Jerome Powell Copy Share Image
“I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifices to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents… — David Christian Copy Share Image
The deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess. — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have… — Michael Weatherly 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
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure… — David Seabury Copy Share Image
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Tis an admirable thing to see how some people will labour to find out terms that may obscure a plain sense, like… — Dorothy Osborne Copy Share Image
Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by… — James Gates Percival Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
![“[Raymond Roussel] said that after his first book he expected that the next morning there would be a kind of aura around his person and that everyone in the street would be able to see that he had written a book. This is the obscure desire harboured by everyone who writes. It is true that the first…” quote by Michel Foucault](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/1bb/michel-foucault-1134_able_raymond-roussel-said-that-after-his-firs_1123161.jpg)
