We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity. — Ryan North Copy Share Image
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose. — George Chapman Copy Share Image
Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“One cannot see from the clouded sky, even the sky is close to the eyes.” — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Sightings of shape shifting dissolved into the darkness. A final opinion is of less value than an appreciation of, and tolerance for… — Chiodos Copy Share Image
“There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“Trust, is the stone thrown into the sea, sinking deep in all its murkiness, unable to see what it once lived and… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
To be sure an artist wishes to raise his standard intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain in obscurity.… — Paul Cezanne Copy Share Image
“And Petersburg was left without Akakii Akakievich, as though he had never lived there. A being disappeared, and was hidden, who was… — Nikolai Gogol Copy Share Image
“Your dreams are like the market grounds; their locations really matter. If you keep hiding your potentials out of sight, you may… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
While Newton seemed to draw off the veil from some of the mysteries of nature, he showed at the same time the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“You put yourself in a tight corner of failure if you think "it's only the rich that get richer while the poor… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined… — James Burnham Copy Share Image
You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them.… — Sue Wicks 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
Myth is the practical metabolism of our soulish life, the logic of our obsessions and oversights for which we have no language… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
The door was locked and Alexia, resourceful as she was, had not yet learned to pick locks. Though she mentally added it… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
I just remember their kindness and goodness to me, and their peacefulness and their utter simplicity. They inspired real reverence, and I… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
I thought that my voyage had come to its end at the last limit of my power, that the path before me… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
“Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.” — Jason Fried Copy Share Image
The obscurity of a writer is generally in proportion to his incapacity. — Quintilian Copy Share Image
Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
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