Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

For any producer I've ever worked with, their toughest job is to convince me to not to obscure my vocals. A lot of people don't… — Ryan Adams
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. — Leo Tolstoy
And after hearing what our Church can say, If still our reason runs another way, That private reason 'tis more just to curb, Than by… — John Dryden
But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs… — Francisco Goya
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is… — Nelson Goodman
An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough… — Nelson Goodman
Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary… — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice… — Omar Bongo
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France? — William Alexander Percy
From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights… — Barack Obama
I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are… — Davy Crockett
Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that… — Daisaku Ikeda
Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of -- heightened nightsight, an empathy shared with the beasts, a utilization of the… — Charles de Lint
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness… — Charles Caleb Colton
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. — Bill Vaughan
Music is relegated to an underground, relatively obscure group of listeners. It's partly because of the nature of the medium. With a piece of visual… — David Byrne
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. — Bill Gates
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. — Baltasar Gracian
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. — Nicolaus Copernicus
On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and… — Robert Delaunay
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to… — Jacques Delors
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and… — Andrea Dworkin
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. — Desiderius Erasmus
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure. — Hugh Hefner

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