Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics. — Tracy Chapman
I went out of my way to try not to be an artist, because I thought I would end up leading a miserable, obscure life.… — Sam Taylor-Wood
Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical… — Adam McKay
I tend to gravitate to the darkest or most obscure part of any venue in an effort to have my own space to experience the… — Henry Rollins
With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just… — Matthew Shultz
The workman in the true sense of the word - the artist in guns - is either extinct, or hidden in an obscure corner. There… — Richard Jefferies
Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on… — Virginia Postrel
I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people. — Claire Tomalin
I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material. — Julian Ovenden
From exam grading to health education to professional training to democratic participation, paths towards self-realization and success in the world are often daunting and obscure:… — Tom Chatfield
My music can be a little obscure. It does worry me that the music might be too complicated for people to take in - that… — Kate Bush
Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an… — Susan Glaspell
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and… — Benjamin Cardozo
Things will absolutely go wrong. In a healthy team, as soon as things go wrong, that information should be surfaced. Trying to hide or obscure… — Steven Sinofsky
Be obscure clearly. — Elwyn Brooks White
In labouring to be concise, I become obscure. — Horace
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man. — Barbara Pym
More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure. — Roy L. Smith
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Horace
Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure… — Adam Ferguson
Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his… — Frederick Pollock
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages. — Isaac Mayer Wise
I strive to be brief but I become obscure. — Horace
The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it… — Michael Mandelbaum
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and… — Lynn Nottage

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