Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and… — Robert Waterman McChesney
The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the… — Bill Toomey
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully… — Hans Zimmer
...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If… — Soren Kierkegaard
Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. — Renee Zellweger
In my experience when critics raise these objections, they invariably violate one of seventeen principles for interpreting the Scriptures....For example, assuming the unexplained is unexplainable....failing… — Norman Geisler
In our culture of constant access and nonstop media, nothing feels more like a curse from God than time in the wilderness. To be obscure,… — Jonathan Martin
Once you were just insentient cells, no more aware of anything than your liver is now. Today you are brimming with consciousness. How did you… — Colin McGinn
Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate… — Ramit Sethi
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities. — Mary Ellen Chase
Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to… — Price Pritchett
Our amended Constitution is the lodestar for our aspirations. Like every text worth reading, it is not crystalline. The phrasing is broad and the limitations… — William J. Brennan
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure. — Winston Churchill
All film directors, whether famous or obscure, regard themselves as misunderstood or underrated. Because of that, they all lie. They're obliged to overstate their own… — Francois Truffaut
That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized… — Pope Gregory VII
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly… — Omar N. Bradley
We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the… — Murray Rothbard
Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure… — Mickey Rourke
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor. — Ambrose Bierce
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. It is in the darker. It is in the darker regions of science that great men are… — Claude Bernard
The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and… — Don DeLillo
Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure. — Charles Spurgeon
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive — Stefan Molyneux
If the soul is impartial in receiving information, it devotes to that information the share of critical investigation the information deserves, and its truth or… — Ibn Khaldun
Hipsters seek refuge in church, Our Lady of Perpetual Subculture. There is some discussion as to whether or not they are still cool but then… — Colson Whitehead

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