It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. — Taylor Caldwell Copy Share Image
I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity. — Oliver Cromwell 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
I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity. — Sterling K. Brown Copy Share Image
In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't want people running around saying Gwen Brooks's work is intellectual. That makes people think instantly about obscurity. It shouldn't have… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I had a great time on News Radio, I got to make tons of money in relative obscurity and learn a lot… — Joe Rogan 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
“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
“Ut saepe summa ingenia in occulto latent (How often the greatest talents are shrouded in obscurity)” — Plautus Copy Share Image
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran… — Walter Kirn 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
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
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
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
Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't… — Mike Huckabee 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
Victor Serge died in exile and obscurity, apparently no more than a splinter of a splinter in the Marxist movement. But with… — I. F. Stone Copy Share Image
That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Genius is often a short way of spelling hard work. Poverty, obscurity, struggle and ambition formed the foundation for many careers of… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
In geometry I find certain imperfections which I hold to be the reason why this science, apart from transition into analytics, can… — Nikolai Lobachevsky 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
For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Look, we live in a celebrity culture and sometimes you get caught in the wave and the buzz and a lot of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Here's some free advice; like the folkies of yore, you need to be not just a writer of songs, you need to… — Michael Kosser Copy Share Image
There is no defense against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. — James Kern Feibleman Copy Share Image
People newly emerged from obscurity generally launch out into indiscriminate display. — Jean Ingelow 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
