Quotes About Obscure

I personally tend to be drawn to stories that aren't paid much attention to, or stories that aren't on people's radar.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.

I've always been under the radar.

I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

There's a creative freedom with being under the radar. But I guess if you're too under the radar, you get canceled?

Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.

They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.

An obscure sect, having as part of its creed the injunction Don't take yourself so damn seriously, won new adherents. The

'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

I was thinking of my father's family. I can find their graves, but not that much about them. They didn't do anything notable enough to be in the records of newspapers.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

cosmologists have come to the conclusion that known kinds of matter and energy constitute only about 4 per cent of the universe. The rest consists of dark matter and dark energy. The nature of 96 per cent of physical reality is literally obscure.8

The fog of war hinders the enemy, and so let us leave him with it rather than dispel it.

The way to extinguish a shadow is to increase the light.

If I obey Jesus Christ in the seemingly random circumstances of life, they become pinholes through which I see the face of God.

Not all dangers are obvious.

The trick to hiding something, she'd told him once, is to put it right out in plain sight.

Beginnings, it's said, are apt to be shadowy.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius

Today will just be something else that they don't talk about, something else that probably never happened.

The conventional use of words and of narrative structure is deliberately subverted in decadent fiction; language deviates from the established norms in an attempt to reproduce pathology on a textual level. With its emphasis on aberration and artifice, the decadents' approach to the language of fiction frequently leans towards the baroque and the obscure.

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.