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Obscure Quotes

Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Find Difficult Judgment Obscure Many

There are some things that I write that I know are personal in a way, or the gag is so obscure that it's just for me, and there's other things that could basically be for anybody or be anything, at least until the lyrics start to get written.

Me Start Know Personal Way Obscure

A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order.

Vision Philosophy You Look Obscure

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

Man Obscure See Well Read He

With each thing that you do, all the fears in life and safeguards block out, or obscure, who you truly are. I think that just a glimpse of the person ever comes through in most material.

Life Think You Person Obscure Out

Some people are so famous that the legends about them and the cultural aftermath of their life altogether obscure the real human being.

Life People Famous Legends Obscure

A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Tough Debate Wrong Talk Obscure

Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure Scottish-English settlers around Rochester.

Preston Sturges

Family Immigrants Poor Irish Obscure

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.

People Obscure Standards Well Most

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

Life Man New Bachelor Obscure Idea

Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He's the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.

Music Kind Obscure Niche Playing He

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov

Masterpiece Obscure Existence Vast

Delight at having understood a very abstract and obscure system leads most people to believe in the truth of what it demonstrates.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Truth People Believe Obscure Delight

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

Want Obscure Not Interested Sell

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.

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

Want Kid Obscure Would Even Knew

Be obscure clearly.

Funny Obscure Clearly

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

Me Career Washington Obscure Little

The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent.

Michael Mandelbaum

Potential Become Obscure September

When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.

History People Obscure Pretty Going

The discovery of streptomycin as a product of a rather obscure group of microorganisms, the actinomycetes, led to the study of these organisms as potential producers of other chemotherapeutic substances.

Potential Discovery Group Obscure

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

Muriel Rukeyser

Poetry People Obscure Modern Being

It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.

Struggle Become Obscure Brief

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.

Frederick Pollock

Pet Circle Beyond Obscure Own Whom

It's useful to think of the imagination as an aspect of the body because it seems to have processes of its own that are obscure to us.

Imagination Think Body Obscure Own

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