“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
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
Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the… — Jonathan Martin Copy Share Image
Propriety of thought and propriety of diction are commonly found together. Obscurity and affectation are the two greatest faults of style. Obscurity… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
So true is it that all transactions of preeminent importance are wrapt in doubt and obscurity; while some hold for certain facts… — Tacitus Copy Share Image
“He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
John Major is what he is: a man from nowhere, going nowhere, heading for a well-merited obscurity as fast as his mediocre… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family. — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
“I found a strange solace and safety in my power of invisibility and made obscurity my residence.” — Erwin Raphael McManus 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
“Worry adds no hours to a day, nor happiness to a smile, so it is not worth succumbing to, especially when it… — Johnathan Jena Copy Share Image
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon 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
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
“There is an enduring freshness in what remains strange and obscure which the cliches of greatness can only evoke nostalgia for.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be… — Ernie J Zelinski 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
One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff. — William McFee Copy Share Image
The spirit is often concealed within matter to such an extent that few people are generally capable of perceiving it. — Wassily Kandinsky Copy Share Image
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. — George Allen, Sr Copy Share Image
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead 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
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
For the most part, executions happen in obscurity. If people did hear about executions, if they were publicized, even televised, I fear… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“When the work is done, and one's name is becoming distinguished, to withdraw into obscurity is the way of Heaven.” — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
