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I've been away writing songs and recording and doing albums that are much more obscure.
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.
I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!
I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.
Ministers should be stars to give light, not clouds to obscure.
Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.
Dilemma of civilized man; body mobilized, but danger obscure.
I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.
Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.
It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?
Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.
Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence.
The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.
It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.
The perfect war is started for obscure reasons, is hopelessly murderous, and accomplishes nothing.
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
Long life will sometimes obscure the star of fame.
Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.
There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.
It is terribly important to appreciate that some things remain obscure to the bitter end.
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive
... Philosophy proper is a subject, on the one hand so hopelessly obscure, on the other so astonishingly elementary, that there knowledge hardly counts.
Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.
Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.
It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.
Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.
Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.
Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure.
[Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure trivial pursuits question, I am confident I will be the answer.
One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.
My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.
More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
We have a tendency to obscure the forest of simple joys with the trees of problems.
The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.
There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.
Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.
As night the life-inclining stars best shows, So lives obscure the starriest souls disclose.
