Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Without precise meanings behind words, politicians and elites can obscure reality and condition people to reflexively associate certain words with positive or… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best… — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle… — Ovid Copy Share Image
There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It has been a long road from Plato's Meno to the present, but it is perhaps encouraging that most of the progress… — Allen Newell Copy Share Image
“Practically all writers and artists are aware of their destiny and see themselves as actors in a fateful drama. With me, nothing… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
For it is not the bare Words, but the Scope of the writer that giveth true light, by which any writing is… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
All jokes aside, it's a very difficult job playing the straight man. Jason is potentially the most brilliant straight man that ever… — Will Arnett Copy Share Image
MySpace is somehow more welcoming than Facebook. And Twittering, I just... Ugh. I like having radio silence. I think radio silence is… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He… — Walter Farrell Copy Share Image
I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Poetry, in the entire course of its development, has always been trying to capture meanings and problems which are still obscure and… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their… — Ben Lovett Copy Share Image
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The thing about music is it's not an obscure pursuit, it's a very natural thing for human beings to do. Once you… — Grimes Copy Share Image
When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in… — Howard Stringer Copy Share Image
How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not... Responsibilities need not erase… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to… — Francois Truffaut Copy Share Image
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived… — Adam Ferguson Copy Share Image
I've always been into fashion and obscure articles of clothing, and while this first set of Hoods Up includes beanies, shorts, shirts,… — Ronnie Radke Copy Share Image
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very… — Ricky Jay Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan has always sealed his decisions with the unexplainable. His motives for withholding the release of the magnificent 'Basement Tapes' will… — Jon Landau Copy Share Image
Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I STILL THINK THE REVOLUTION IS TO MAKE THE WORLD SAFE FOR POETRY, MEANDERING, FOR THE FRAIL AND VULNERABLE, THE RARE AND… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
