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I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.
— Frank Fairfield
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.
— George Henry Lewes
I have always loved really dense, complicated stories with lots of layers, tons of obscure literary references, and a plethora of inside jokes.
— Alethea Kontis
When the situation is obscure, attack
— Heinz Guderian
Lenin sensed that Tukhachevsky was a kindred spirit. He delegated the most responsible jobs to the obscure lieutenant.
— Mikhail Tukhachevsky
I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.
— Jon Richardson
Done because we are too many.
— Thomas Hardy
It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.
— James Kern Feibleman
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
— Joseph Joubert
Experts always tend to obscure the obvious.
— D. V. Ager
I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.
— Michael Bennet
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
— Nicolaus Copernicus
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
— Billy Joel
I don't understand it either. Obscure and vague, but intelligent. 'Everybody writes like that now,
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.
— Desiderius Erasmus
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
— James Buchan
Paul Davies's The Mind of God seems to hover somewhere between Einsteinian pantheism and an obscure form of deism - for
— Richard Dawkins
As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
— Christian Marclay
Facts can obscure the truth.
— Maya Angelou
For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.
— Shirley Hazzard
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.
— Don DeLillo
We have the words in our pockets,obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ... — Denise Levertov
People love shit that's all obscure and mysterious.
— L. H. Cosway
One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.
— Jimmy Sangster
Do you think me, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless?
— Charlotte Bronte
An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius
— Arturo Perez-Reverte
We obscure our self-knowledge with anxiety; that it is not what we desire but what we fear and dread we may desire that impedes us - a
— John Cheever
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
It is not the length of years but a multitude of generations that makes things obscure. For truth is only perverted when men change.
— Blaise Pascal
Nature has a counterpart, a representation of every interior mood and obscure perception of man.
— Mary Butts
He who knows himself to be profound endeavors to be clear; he who would like to appear profound to the crowd endeavors to be obscure.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.
— Meghan O'Rourke
Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Human consciousness is too obscure a mystery to itself for us to script our own lives.
— Robert Jenson
Is creativity some obscure, esoteric art form? Not on your life. It's the most practical thing a business-man can employ.
— William Bernbach
An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.
— Nicolas Chamfort
No papers, no money; no family, no friends, no sense of who you are. The obscurest of the obscure, so obscure as to be a prodigy.
— J.M. Coetzee
The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.
— Michael Chabon
I take it this is some obscure West Indian usage of the word 'similar' which means 'nothing at all alike'?
— Neil Gaiman
Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand.
— Isaac Asimov
If you keep in secret what would have been used to help you, you will never be helped! Your gifts make way for you to lead; use them well!
— Israelmore Ayivor
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
— Barbara Pym
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say ... This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure.
— Winston Churchill
And would it not be proud romance Falling in some obscure advance, To rise, a poppy field of France?
— William Alexander Percy
We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation
— Thomas Merton
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.
— George Pope Morris
The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none.
— Patrick Modiano
Super 8 film is the language of silence.
— Rebecca McNutt
The next time you need a piece of apparently obscure information, try asking a science fiction writer. You might be surprised.
— Alastair Reynolds
Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Hardship makes the world obscure.
— Don DeLillo
The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
— Nicholson Baker
No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
— Alfred Austin
The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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.
— Blaise Pascal
The disease which racked his body was a sweetheart compared to the more obscure one that possessed his sick mind.
— Irvine Welsh
I would rather die in the adventure of noble achievements than live in obscure and sluggish security.
— Margaret Cavendish
Bull markets and Bear markets can obscure mathematical laws, they cannot repeal them.
— Warren Buffett
I do not think partisanship should ever obscure the truth.
— Theodore Roosevelt
And the greatest pity that the obscure lgala language is a borrowed and stolen mixture of the WaZoBia.
— S.A. David
Die Luft der Freiheit weht (The wind of freedom stirs). Since 1906, that obscure German phrase has encircled the Stanford Tree in the school emblem.
— Greg Steinmetz
Love has no darkened temples where mysteries are kept obscure and hidden from the sun.
— Foundation For Inner Peace
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
