Obscure Quotes
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
Vikram Seth
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God and other artists are always a little obscure....
Oscar Wilde
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
Oscar Wilde
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian
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My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
Kate McKinnon
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I try to take normal things - whether it's a serious subject or something as obscure as a piece of toast - and put a very weird twist on them.
Harland Williams
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Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.
D. V. Ager
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Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White
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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 agenda George W. Bush did.
Adam McKay
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It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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To claim that wines should not be changed is a heresy; the palate becomes saturated and after the third glass the best of wines arouses nothing but an obscure sensation.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Barbara Pym
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Joseph Joubert
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In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.
Edgar Allan Poe
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Obscure, like muddy waters.
Lao Tzu
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The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
Nelson Goodman
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The exact objectives of Islam Inc. are obscure. Needless to say everyone involved has a different angle, and they all intend to cross each other up somewhere along the line.
William S. Burroughs
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Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
Charles Lenox Remond
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Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
Nicolaus Copernicus
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To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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I prefer the saddle to the streetcar and star-sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail, leading into the unknown, to any paved highway, and the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bred by cities. Do you blame me then for staying here, where I feel that I belong and am one with the world around me? It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to me that I have learned to contain myself. It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty
Everett Ruess