Arcane Quotes

Arcane Quote of the day

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

We need to think about encryption not as this sort of arcane, black art. It's a basic protection.

To be successful, you should concentrate on the world of companies, not arcane accounting mathematics.

True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily "dumbing down."

There is an air of unreality in debating these arcane points when the world is changing in such dramatic ways right in front of our eyes because of global warming.

Unfortunately for a multitude of occultists, humor is a rare ingredient in their lives. In fact it is their very lack of humor that has impelled them into the arcane and esoteric.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence.

We seem to have set up some very arcane rules as to when it is actually OK to applaud.

I'll never be a minimalist. The fact that the prose is more tightly controlled doesn't for a minute mean that it's minimalist. I very much like arcane words and baroque sentence structure.

The argument about marriage equality will one day seem as arcane and shocking to us as the fact that Rosa Parks had to get up and go to the back of the bus.

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays.

Film theory has nothing to do with film.

One of the wonderful things about being a writer is that you're constantly dredging up some arcane knowledge or long-forgotten experience, rediscovering old passions and interests.

Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.

I didn't expect to love being online as much as I do. I've met some wonderful people and discovered that however arcane some of my interests that there are people out there who are interested too.

So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb.

What has emerged as I've gotten older is simplifying the characters I play, unless the role calls for something that is arcane or ornate.

Distilling is such a strange and arcane art, still. Not quite a science yet, but when someone's making something weird, I like to know about it.

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us.

Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.

Economics has become increasingly an arcane branch of mathematics rather than dealing with real economic problems.

Nothing like an arcane literary debate with your tyrannical master while you pass the time leading to your execution.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

All you need to know about the light is in being in the dark.