Quotes of: Obscurity Keyword

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...

John Geddes

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

Joseph Joubert

I feel sad when I realize how much truth is being changed or obscured in the American media.

Sharon Stone

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov

You concede nothing to me and I have to concede everything to you.

Jude the Obscure

The medium obscured the message.

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal

Obscurity can be a fire of ambition in those who have stalwart souls.

Taylor Caldwell

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.

Khalil Gibran

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth.

Maya Angelou

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Michael Bennet

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

Isabelle Eberhardt

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

Isaac Mayer Wise

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

James Thurber

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

Ana Monnar

Deep” to me connotes intellectual rigor, not fashionable obscurity or the unnecessarily academic.

Alex Payne

No simplicity of mind, no obscurity of station, can escape the universal duty of questioning all that we believe.

William Kingdon Clifford

Always wanting another man than your own.

Jude the Obscure

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

Tom Hayes

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

Roy L. Smith

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

Jim Carrey

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

Hugh Hefner