Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy,… — Scott Aukerman Copy Share Image
The public, too, has to make an effort in order to understand the writer who, though he renounce complacent obscurity, cannot always… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Only yesterday I was full of worldly fancies, although religion had already some share in my thoughts: glory was still my daydream.… — Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from… — Dan Piraro Copy Share Image
The realization that The Art of Obscurity is my 25th solo album prompted me to do some deep thinking about where I… — Iain Matthews Copy Share Image
We hear the ambient noise of children singing. We hear lions and tigers roar. Hyenas laugh. Some jungle bird or howler monkey… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
If there were a reason for preferring the Christian religion to natural religion, it would be because the former offers us, on… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
I am grown old, and have possibly lost a great deal of that fire, which formerly made me love fire in others… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements. — Robert Mortimer Copy Share Image
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It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity. — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the… — Russell Kirk Copy Share Image
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
That this subject [of imaginary magnitudes] has hitherto been considered from the wrong point of view and surrounded by a mysterious obscurity,… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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