Obscure Quotes

374 Obscure quotes by 323 unique authors

When the digital world is really here, movies can be disseminated from satellite direct to homes and direct to small theaters in Mongolia and northern… — Howard Stringer
Happiness comes from living in the moment, this moment, now, right here. If you are in obscure states of mind, you won't see what this… — Frederick Lenz
I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure… — Michael Weatherly
Washington tends to be full of too many traps. I think reporters there do a lot of attending news briefings and news conferences expecting to… — Tom Brokaw
A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it… — Florence King
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing. — Criss Jami
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood. — Christian Marclay
I used to work at NASA in Virginia. It was nothing glamorous; I was just tasked with making code compile for obscure projects, and I… — Randall Munroe
The historical religions have the tendency to become ends in themselves, and, as it were, to put themselves in God's place, and, in fact, there… — Martin Buber
A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we… — John Ray
Not many appreciate the ultimate power and potential usefulness of basic knowledge accumulated by obscure, unseen investigators who, in a lifetime of intensive study, may… — Eugenie Clark
Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the… — Chester Brown
My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them.… — Casey Abrams
That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use… — Ricky Jay
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way. — Isabelle Eberhardt
I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a… — Mose Allison
Some experience of popular lecturing had convinced me that the necessity of making things plain to uninstructed people, was one of the very best means… — Thomas Huxley
Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of… — Jean Genet
Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the… — Charles Petzold
There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty. — Sara Zarr
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history. — Alice Miller
So death obscures your gentle form, So memory strives to make the darkness bright; And, in that heap of rocks, your body lies, Part of… — John Masefield
Why should literature be easy? Sometimes you can do what you want to do in a simple, direct way that is absolutely right. Sometimes you… — Jeanette Winterson
No true work since the world began was ever wasted; no true life since the world began has ever failed. Oh, understand those two perverted… — Frederic Farrar
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure. — James Kern Feibleman

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