Best 83 quotes in «obscure quotes» category

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

I always have directors who are somewhat frustrated because they'll reference a beautifully obscure film from the '50s or '60s or '70s, and I've not seen it.

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure than when we see it...Imagination, therefore, is nothing more than decaying sense.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week - that I ended up discovering all these obscure bands that no one had really heard here. It was very exciting to be able to play their records on the air for a new audience and be able to get instant feedback.

I always wanted to make a cover album consisting of obscure psychedelic music from the 1960s - all re-shaped and customized, Ulver style.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

I heard Tom Waits in this kinky shop on Belmont Street in Chicago. Considering the way I was raised, they were such obscure voices, but their music saved my life - I didn't know who I was before I heard Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.

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

If I correctly understand the sense of this succinct observation, our poet suggests here that human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

I have a diverse audience, which is great, because I like doing things that are a bit more obscure, and I love doing things that are very popular as well. Each has its own bit of joy. So I try to mix it up.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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

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.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

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

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.

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.

[John] Calvin treats experience as essentially visionary and revelatory from moment to moment, addressed to the individual perceiver, the individual soul. Where this is assumed preconceptions can only distract and obscure, though, of course, as human beings we can never wholly free ourselves of them.

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

Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.

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.

Nihil est incertius vulgo, nihil obscurius voluntate hominum, nihil fallacius ratione tota comitiorum. (Nothing is more unpredictable than the mob, nothing more obscure than public opinion, nothing more deceptive than the whole political system.)

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

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

Obscure, like muddy waters.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

Style is only the frame to hold your thoughts. It is like the sash of a window; if heavy, it will obscure the light.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

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.

The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode

Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility.

The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his most beautiful poems a revolver is leveled straight at us.

When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched obscure movies and only listened to obscure music.

Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!

I made spasmodic efforts to work, assuring myself that once I began working I would forget her. The difficulty was in beginning. There was a feeling of weakness, a sort of powerlessness now, as though I were about to be ill but was never quite ill enough, as though I were about to come down with something I did not quite come down with. It seemed to me that for the first time in my life I had been in love, and had lost, because of the grudgingness of my heart, the possibility of having what, too late, I now thought I wanted. What was it that all my life I had so carefully guarded myself against? What was it that I had felt so threatened me? My suffering, which seemed to me to be a strict consequence of having guarded myself so long, appeared to me as a kind of punishment, and this moment, which I was now enduring, as something which had been delayed for half a lifetime. I was experincing, apparently, an obscure crisis of some kind. My world acquired a tendency to crumble as easily as a soda cracker. I found myself horribly susceptible to small animals, ribbons in the hair of little girls, songs played late at night over lonely radios. It became particularly dangerous for me to go near movies in which crippled girls were healed by the unselfish love of impoverished bellhops. I had become excessively tender to all the more obvious evidences of the frailness of existence; I was capable of dissolving at the least kind word, and self-pity, in inexhaustible doses, lay close to my outraged surface. I moved painfully, an ambulatory case, mysteriously injured.

If you keep in secret what would have been used to help you, you will never be helped! Your gifts make way for you to lead; use them well!