Obscure Quotes
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
Vikram Seth -
God and other artists are always a little obscure....
Oscar Wilde
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Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
Oscar Wilde -
A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
Wendell Willkie -
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.
Kate McKinnon -
I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
Baltasar Gracian -
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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Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White -
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 -
Obscure, like muddy waters.
Lao Tzu -
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 -
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 -
Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.
D. V. Ager
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Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Barbara Pym -
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 -
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 -
The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.
Jennifer Donnelly -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!
Charlotte Bronte -
This is obscure and lo-fi, so who knows...maybe the underground will like me again haha.
Clemens Wijers Carach Angren