Quotes of: Obscure Keyword

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Emily Bronte

I grew up in an age where women's tennis did not have similar prizes to men, and they played in complete obscurity, really, compared to the men's game.

David Stern

You don't talk quite like a girl who has had no advantages.

Jude the Obscure

When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown.

Shaping the dream

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

Lolita

The pristine virtue is nothing but absolute absurdity, utter obscurity and sheer imbecility.

Paradise of Fantasies

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Meghan O'Rourke

So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.

Tracy Chapman

Group personification obscures, rather than illuminates, important political questions.

Tom G. Palmer

Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.

John White

I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.

Robert De Niro

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

Nicolaus Copernicus

I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.

Claire Tomalin

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Barbara Pym

Listening; our propensity to complicate this effortless act is only matched by our ability to relentlessly obscure the obvious.

Glenn A. Maltais

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own.

Frederick Pollock

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Human beings are obscured by their desire to have and their greed to own preventing their natural cause of "being

Victor Manan Nyambala

There comes a time when a man must forgo familiarity and venture into uncertainty; risking obscurity, but also quite possibly… finding meaning.

Capricorn

Faith doesn't move mountains, Detective. It just obscures the view.

The Exile Book of New Canadian Noir

Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.

Angle of Repose