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Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.
I was flavour of the year for a couple of years, and then, like everyone else, I faded into obscurity. I didn't car;, I loved it.
The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
I foresee that poverty and obscurity probably await me, and I am in some measure prepared and daily preparing to meet them.
God's extraordinary work is most often done by ordinary people in the seeming obscurity of a home and family.
We are tied down to a language which makes up in obscurity what it lacks in style.
Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.
My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.
Learn to be pleased with everything, with wealth so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
As a student in Beijing in 1996, I sometimes marveled at the sheer obscurity of the movies that somehow made it onto pirated discs in China.
You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity.
The origins of poetry are clearly rooted in obscurity, in secretiveness, in incantation, in spells that must at once invoke and protect, tell the secret and keep it.
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.
For ideas to prevail, many of their defenders have to die in obscurity. Their anonymous influence makes itself felt.
I honestly feel like I've been mostly toiling in obscurity until a little bit after 'Day Of the Dog' came out.
Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.
I think I would like the sort of job where you can work away in obscurity to try and improve things, without being caught up in the political maelstrom.
Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding.
One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.
The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.
Well, you can implement a Perl peek() with unpack('P',...). Once you have that, there's only security through obscurity.
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle.
What is popular is not necessarily vulgar; and that which we try to rescue from fatal obscurity had in general much better remain where it is.
There's nothing more horrifying than the possibility or the idea that you will just fade away into obscurity.
Many things prevent knowledge, including the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life
Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence.
If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity.
I think it's important to have had at least a few years of obscurity, where people treat you like everybody else.
It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.
Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality.
'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity.
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years.
As Ronald Reagan demonstrated, it is still possible to progress if not from a log cabin at least from obscurity to the White House. It is also rare.
Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness.
Permit us to labor on in obscurity, and at the end of twenty years you may hear from us again.
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity.
As touching the gods, I do not know whether they exist or not, nor how they are featured; for there is much to prevent our knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the brevity of human life.
A man will work and slave in obscurity for ten years and then become famous in ten minutes.
When the artist ... intends from the beginning to be obscure and take obscurity as his objective or goal for its own sake and wishes to astonish, shock, and seem mysterious, that is a swindle.
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy.
Untruth being unacceptable to the mind of man, there is no other defence left for absurdity but obscurity.
When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.
Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world.
The soul languishing in obscurity contracts a kind of rust, or abandons itself to the chimera of presumption; for it is natural for it to acquire something, even when separated from any one.
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.
The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.
Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.
There is no defence against reproach, but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.
Time in its irresistible and ceaseless flow carries along on its flood all created things and drowns them in the depths of obscurity.
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity.
If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.
Men seek fame and high places only to learn that they were happier in obscurity
The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small.
One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
I want to be famous so I can be humble about being famous. What good is my humility when I am stuck in this obscurity?
