Obscure Quotes
374 quotes by 330 authors
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I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure…
— Bjork
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
— William Blake
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see…
— Constantin Brancusi
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I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
— Robert Browning
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A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as…
— James Buchan
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need…
— Tom Clancy
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Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
— Maya Angelou
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There is nothing obscure about the objectives of educational exchange. Its purpose is to acquaint Americans with the world as it is and to acquaint…
— J. William Fulbright
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I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly…
— Vaclav Havel
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I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
— Therese of Lisieux
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Never be so brief as to become obscure.
— Tryon Edwards
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Hardship makes the world obscure.
— Don DeLillo
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Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
— Martin Short
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There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary…
— Samuel Johnson
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