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 would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity. — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Hegel's philosophy is so odd that one would not have expected him to be able to get sane men to accept it,… — Bertrand Russell 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
I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, go… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard 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
“(Regarding a twenty-questions game:) Did you know that the Russian composer Aram Katchaturian described his ‘Sabre Dance’ as no more than a… — Stephen Minkin Copy Share Image
The lowest people are generally the first to find fault with show or equipage; especially that of a person lately emerged from… — William Shenstone 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
When I wrote about the French Revolution, I didn't choose to write about aristocrats; I chose characters who began their lives in… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
A lot of us have all sorts of ideas, and we select some rather than others and give expression to those... and… — Rupert Sheldrake 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
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. — Edward Gibbon 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
You cannot be buried in obscurity: you are exposed upon a grand theater to the view of the world. If your actions… — Cyrus the Great Copy Share Image
“I spent a long time writing in obscurity. You'll spend a long time writing in obscurity. ” — Dan Kennedy 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
Alexander the Great once said that 'I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity!' What… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties,… — Eric Hoffer 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
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor. — Jean-Baptiste Say Copy Share Image
