The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds. — George Allen, Sr Copy Share Image
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity. — John Locke Copy Share Image
This was a splendid life. Splendid in its obscurity and humility, splendid in its strength and charity, splendid in its achievements. — Robert Mortimer Copy Share Image
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive… — Wilhelm Wundt 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
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
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
“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
It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege… — Washington Irving 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
If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering and to prosper; but if we… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
Now, in our opinion no author should be blamed for obscurity, nor should any pains be grudged in the effort to understand… — Alice Meynell 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
Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
Therefore if we realize that our nature and destiny are what they should be, we will have no anxiety and will be… — Guo Xiang 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
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
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
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward… — Nelson Goodman 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
There is value in long years of obscurity, if one doesn't go insane or suicidal, in that, simply because nobody is looking,… — Jules Olitski Copy Share Image
I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck… — David Budbill 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
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
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
“I found a strange solace and safety in my power of invisibility and made obscurity my residence.” — Erwin Raphael McManus 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
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
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
“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
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. — Nicolas Chamfort 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
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
Obscurity, indeed, is painful to the mind as well as to the eye; but to bring light from obscurity, by whatever labour,… — David Hume 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
