It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Besides the obscurity arising from the complexity of objects, and the imperfection of the human faculties, the medium through which the conceptions… — James Madison Copy Share Image
As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
Before people complain of the obscurity of modern poetry, they should first examine their consciences and ask themselves with how many people… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
It is about something personal and specific, because when the John McCain campaign in 2008 decided to elevate Sarah Palin from total… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution… — Igor Markevitch Copy Share Image
When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he knows not where to choose… — John Quincy Adams 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 never knew how good it is to be unknown until now. The last time I was unknown I was too busy… — Alec Guinness Copy Share Image
The thing about adolescence is that you are emerging from a state of obscurity. You are coming out into the world from… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe. — William Kingdon Clifford Copy Share Image
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. — Tim O'Reilly Copy Share Image
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis,… — John Clute Copy Share Image
I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world; it is-THE CHARITY OF ITS SILENCE. Let no man… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
“I do nothing, with as little shame as satisfaction. It is the state that suits me best. I write the odd poem… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
The worst thing for me would be going back to where I was - relative obscurity. — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
I like the spirit of this great London which I feel around me. Who but a coward would pass his whole life… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity. — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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
I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity,… — David Stern Copy Share Image
However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
