Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display. — Jean Ingelow Copy Share Image
“As Life saunters onward toward oblivion, I am left to peer through the veil of obscurity, and gawk at the contrast between… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The public easily confuses him who fishes in troubled waters with him who draws up water from the depths. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
“You are like a city on the hill; you can't be hidden out of sight in any way! Beautify your environment and… — Israelmore Ayivor 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
Tungsten, X-rays, and Coolidge form a trinity that has left an indelible impression upon our life and times. The key word in… — Chauncey Guy Suits Copy Share Image
My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a… — Daniel Stern Copy Share Image
“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
More significant than the fact that poets write abstrusely, painters paint abstractly, and composers compose unintelligible music is that people should admire… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things:… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Don't be a writer, it's a terrible way to live your life, there's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I myself, a professional mathematician, on re-reading my own work find it strains my mental powers to recall to mind from the… — Johannes Kepler 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… — Anna Komnene Copy Share Image
“Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity.” — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
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
Whatever obscurities may involve religious tenets, humility and love constitute the essence of true religion; the humble is formed to adore, the… — Johann Kaspar Lavater 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
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
“Obscurity makes success undefined because success is crowned by sharing what you have with people who need it; you can't share if… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If we were in the habit of reading poets their obscurity would not matter; and, once we are out of the habit,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
“You are a lamp to give light to people; you must mount the lamp stand and shine bright! Don't hide your gifts;… — israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results. — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
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
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature. — Jean-Francois Millet Copy Share Image
It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I owe a lot to Rosshan, who literally plucked me from obscurity as a keyboard performer and handed me the background score… — Gopi Sundar Copy Share Image
I entirely agree with you about the obscurity of Mrs Browning's line about the stars. It is far-fetched. She wanted to express… — Marie Corelli Copy Share Image
