Best 83 quotes in «obscure quotes» category

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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 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.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

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

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

I strive to be brief, and become 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'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.

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

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

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

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

[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.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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.)

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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 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.

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!

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

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!

I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.

I'd rather be not the light in your life The bright day might make me obscure I'd rather be the cold darkness For it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure

I have destroyed almost the whole race of frogs, which does not happen in that savage Batrachomyomachia of Homerr. For in the anatomy of frogs, which, by favour of my very excellent colleague D. Carolo Fracassato, I had set on foot in order to become more certain about the membranous substance of the lungs, it happened to me to see such things that not undeservedly I can better make use of that [saying] of Homer for the present matter— 'I see with my eyes a work trusty and great.' For in this (frog anatomy) owing to the simplicity of the structure, and the almost complete transparency of the vessels which admits the eye into the interior, things are more clearly shown so that they will bring the light to other more obscure matters.