Obscure Quotes

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

I can’t let you go now. I want to go places with you; obscure little places, just to be able to say: here I came with her.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.

Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.

A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.

I have never been able to understand why perfectly sensible people waste time being wittily obscure instead of just saying what they want and going on about their business.

One dark night the skeletons that they had carefully hidden in an obscure closet appeared, grabbed them around the throat, and strangled them.

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.

Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.

You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.

Maybe one day I'll write my rock album so I can use more obscure references and just be weird. If the lyrics are too crazy, though, then it's not pop anymore.

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.

We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.

I understand there are some men who are only half here. Let's not say men. Let's say people. People who are more or less obscure at times.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.

Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.

It was really bizarre for me to go from being a very private and obscure person and then to be in any way on the internet - like having my picture or videos online.

Everybody uses pop culture as a shorthand. You might make an obscure reference to Monty Python or Iron Eagle that only some people will get, but if they do it conveys a world of meaning.

The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

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 moment is. You won't realize its beauty.

... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.

It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.

Law has been called a bottomless pit, not so much because of its depth, as that its windings are so obscure nobody can see the end.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

Basically, my musical life is split between raving with drugged-up kids and reading obscure 75-year-old poetry, drinking very nice red wine with aged, graying men.

Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

Mathematics is one of the most basic -- and most ancient -- types of knowledge. Yet the details of its historical development remain obscure to all but a few specialists.

He had fought back with every weapon in his arsenal, being alternatively obtuse, evasive and pedantic, for it was wonderful how you could obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision.

Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

Without poetry, religion becomes obscure, false, and malignant; without philosophy, licentious in all wantonness, and lascivious to the point of self-castration.

My fashion is about the urban woman in the year 3000. I think about obscure, weird things and try to create a world around them.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid.