Top 721 Obscure Quotes & Sayings

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Be obscure clearly.

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 concise, I become obscure.

When I was setting out to be an artist, I said: If I can just produce one work that some people think is good, if I can become an obscure cult artist, that's all I want. Well, I attained that. I'm an obscure cult artist, and I think now, Why didn't I say I want to be another Picasso or something? What other options were open to me? But I was convinced I couldn't achieve great things because I don't have a steady-state mind.

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.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

Compromise yourself. Obscure your own trail.

To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

...it is not the obscure passages in Scripture that bind you but the ones you understand. With these you are to comply at once. If you understood only one passage in all of Scripture, well, then you must do that first of all. It will be this passage God asks you about. Do not first sit down and ponder the obscure passages. God's Word is given in order that you shall act according to it, not that you gain expertise in interpreting it.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

Our early days - our audiences were always very sparse. We played very obscure places in very obscure parts of the world, mainly Kansas. We played frat parties, we played high school proms, we played clubs.

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

In the same way, you were happy in spring, With the half colors of quarter-things, The slightly brighter sky, the melting clouds, The single bird, the obscure moon- The obscure moon lighting an obscure world Of thing that would never be quite expressed, Where you yourself were never quite yourself And did not want nor have to be.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

Although much remains obscure, and will long remain obscure, ... I am convinced that Natural Selection has been the main but not exclusive means of modification.

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.

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.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

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

A cardinal rule of writing is never interrupt yourself to explain something. If you must bring up an obscure topic, drop informative hints about it as you go along so that you don't end up with the entire explanation all in one place. This keeps you from skidding to a stop and sounding teacherish. Otherwise it's better to omit the obscure topic altogether, or as mothers might put it: if you can't say it interestingly, don't say it at all.

I like what's obscure.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

When the situation is obscure, attack

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

In labouring to be brief, I become obscure.

Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand.

In trying to be concise I become obscure.

A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

If you find something obscure fascinating, learn as much about it as you can, because there's a good chance it won't be obscure for long.

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

I am never needlessly obscure - I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Hardship makes the world obscure.

When I struggle to be terse, I end by being obscure.

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

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort; and who, if they could only have been induced to begin, would in all probability have gone great lengths in the career of fame.

God and other artists are always a little obscure.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Obscure, like muddy waters.

Facts can obscure the truth.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

We inhabit an obscure planet, in an obscure galaxy, around an obscure sun, but on the other hand, modern human society represents one of the most complex things we know.

No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness; getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.

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

Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.