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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
My God is rock'n'roll. It's an obscure power that can change your life. The most important part of my religion is to play guitar.
It is not enough that a man has clearness of vision, and reliance on sincerity, he must also have the art of expression, or he will remain obscure.
All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
Calamities that are not the result of purely natural phenomena usually have their origins, distant and obscure though they may be, in common human failings.
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
For I had rather die in the adventure ot noble achievements, then live in obscure and sluggish security.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
I like slightly obscure places, where the waves may not be world class, but you can tie some culture in with your surf trip.
The task of the teacher of the Bible is to open up what’s closed, to make plain what is obscure, to unravel what is knotted and to unfold what is tightly packed.
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way
If I had never touched Holmes, who has tended to obscure my higher work, my position in literature would at the present moment be a more commanding one.
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
I am poor - obscure - just eighteen years of age - with a rapacious appetite for everything and principles as light as my purse.
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.
A wise God shrouds the future in obscure darkness.
[Lat., Prudens futuri temporis exitum
Caliginosa nocte premit deus.]
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.
Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. This was the sound conclusion of the Academic sceptics, who were the least surly of philosophers.
Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why.
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account.
Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.
People of our time are so formed for agitation and ostentation that goodness, moderation, equability, constancy, and such quiet and obscure qualities are no longer felt.
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
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.
Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
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 deepest life of nature is silent and obscure; so often the elements that move and mould society are the results of the sister's counsel and the mother's prayer.
Clinging uncritically to traditional ideas and beliefs often serves to obscure or deny real facts of our life history.
I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.
We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock.
I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.
I still think the revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.
The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
Men are most apt to believe what they least understand; and through the lust of human wit obscure things are more easily credited.
Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.
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.
Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.
Abligurition: an actual, if very obscure, English word, which means the spending of too much money on food.
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
Seldom, if ever, has a war ended leaving the victors with such a sense of uncertainty and fear, with such a realization that the future is obscure and that survival is not assured.
Analogies, in particular, can illuminate, but they can also obscure and confuse. They need to be handled carefully, like rhetorical high explosives.
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.
I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.
Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
You — you strange — you almost unearthly thing! — I love as my own flesh. You — poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are — I entreat to accept me as a husband.
Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.
The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly.
