We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity — Vance Havner 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
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again. — Adoniram Judson 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
I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of… — Erin Wasson 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
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 think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without… — Samantha Power 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
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the… — Benjamin F. Wade Copy Share Image
What we have not had to decipher, to elucidate by our own efforts, what was clear before we looked at it, is… — Marcel Proust 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
Complexity and obscurity have professional value - they are the academic equivalents of apprenticeship rules in the building trades. They exclude the… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have,… — Protagoras Copy Share Image
I've been very fortunate, because I've been involved in things that very often lead to obscurity. I was in some pictures that… — Christopher Walken 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
Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
But though every created thing is, in this sense, a mystery, the word mystery cannot be applied to moral truth, any more… — Thomas Paine 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 way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
There are minerals called hydrophanous, which are not transparent till they are immersed in water, when they become so; as the hydrophane,… — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock Copy Share Image
When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The coaching profession has lost one of its true legends. Though he was best known for winning more football games than any… — Grant Teaff Copy Share Image
“For instance? Well, for instance, what it means to be a man. In a city. In a century. In transition. In a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
