It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize… — Jean-Georges Noverre Copy Share Image
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Moreover, the sciences are monuments devoted to the public good; each citizen owes to them a tribute proportional to his talents. While… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If an author be supposed to involve his thoughts in voluntary obscurity, and to obstruct, by unnecessary difficulties, a mind eager in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We're a sport that was in obscurity for so long, we started to get used to that. — Elana Meyers Copy Share Image
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate, because I've been involved in things that very often lead to obscurity. I was in some pictures that… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff. — William McFee Copy Share Image
The obscurity is more often in the passions and prejudices of the reasoner than in the subject. — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own… — Tawfiq al-Hakim Copy Share Image
One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
And also those to whom these commandments were given, might have power to lay the foundation of this church, and to bring… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
There is nothing so charming as the knowledge of literature; of that branch of literature, I mean, which enables us to discover… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Eliminate mental muddiness and obscurity; keep your mind crystal clear. Allow your pure original insight to emerge. Quiet your emotions and abide… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand… — Alice Meynell Copy Share Image
It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
