Obscure Quotes

I try to make those references. I try to make sure that they're not too obscure. But outside of that, I dare not claim anything in the spiritual realm for my own.

If an image is powerful enough, if it resists us, if, by its obscure coherence, part of it escapes our understanding, then it means that something has been won from reality.

I don't believe a good poet is very often deliberately obscure. A poet writes in a way necessary to him or her; the reader may then find the poem difficult.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Obscure shadows on the mind are much scarier than the dark shadows of the night.

I'm in the process of trying to organize my DVDs into some kind of order and it's taking me weeks. I have everything from obscure 'Antonioni' to 'Terminator Salvation.

Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

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.

An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

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

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

Beneath the sun's rays our shadow is our comrade; When clouds obscure the sun our shadow flees. So Fortune's smiles the fickle crowd pursues, But swift is gone whenever she veils her face.

The pretensions of final truth are always partlyan effort to obscure a darkly felt consciousness of the limits of human knowledge.

Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Mothers will be fishing kids out of obscure cubby-holes for years!

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.

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?

How often does it happen that an obscure line finds its way into a periodical... is requoted in every book that comes out during the next three months, and "sleeps again!

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.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

That's my feeling - that real God and religion are two different things and that religion is trying to obscure what God really is.

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

Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

If you want music that speaks to you, that LISTENS to you, you have to go out of your way, which I enjoy actually. I'm constantly on a private-eye kick to find the totally obscure

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

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

Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.

[They let] friendship with the leaders in China obscure our devotion to freedom and democracy when those kids set up in Tiananmen Square, and I think it was wrong.

Even the darkest cloud cannot obscure the brightest light.

Awake, chaos:we have napped.

Everyone has a kind of limitation respectively. Leaders don’t allow their own to obscure them in a small corner.

Without being an independent individual, without having an independent mind, you become nothing more than a trivial slave or an obscure shadow!

Find your hidden talents, your hidden potentials, your hidden purposes and convert them into a better business for the benefit of the entire world.

I'd rather be not the light in your lifeThe bright day might make me obscureI'd rather be the cold darknessFor it remains, unseen, uncertain and unsure

When you are isolated and obscured, your achievements may be wonderful but unknown.

You are like a global market. You can't hide yourself from global customers! Make a global exposure of your dreams and you will achieve global success!

Humble yourself before the Lord and he will lift you high. People who are gentle, humble and able always have a great ending no matter how small and where obscured they have started!

Claiming that you are what you are not will obscure the strengths you do have while destroying your credibility.

I cannot deal with obscurity for more than a few decades before I get the worst ache in my chest.

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.

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Be obscure clearly.