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Quotes About Obscure

DIES MIES JESCHET BOENE DOESEF DOUVEMA ENITEMAUS".
~ H.P. Lovecraft
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.
~ Trevor Dunn
There are guys you've never heard of who drive the ball better than anybody I've seen on the PGA Tour.
~ Jimmy Walker
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
~ Ben Lovett
He stared into the car to see the face of a child-killer, but saw only a blur. The
~ Simon Wood
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
~ Dennis Potter
one of the many uses of theory in academic locations is in the production of an intellectual class hierarchy where the only work deemed truly theoretical is work that is highly abstract, jargonistic, difficult to read, and containing obscure references...any theory that cannot be shared in everyday conversation cannot be used to educate the public
~ bell hooks
a mystery to make men mad.
~ Bernard Cornwell
It is often my nature to be abstract, hidden in plain sight, or nowhere at all.
~ Gerard Way
Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.
~ George M. Whitesides
'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt it absolutely necessary to do more simplification than I've ever done before.
~ Laurence Olivier
Instead of learning the rules, she'd learned to disappear.
~ Sue Grafton
Like other occult techniques of divination, the statistical method has a private jargon deliberately contrived to obscure its methods from non-practitioners.
~ Josh Billings
covered with a think
~ F. Paul Wilson
A signal does not necessarily mean that you want to be located or described. It can mean that you want to be known as Unlocatable and Hidden.
~ Fanny Howe
Truth is so obscure in these times and falsehood so established that unless one loves the truth, he cannot know it.
~ Blaise Pascal
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
~ Blaise Pascal
We found a loophole," he said. "Their systems were programmed in such a way that you didn't have to receive ten books, you only had to order ten books. So we found an obscure book about lichens that they had in their system but was out of stock. We began ordering the one book we wanted and nine copies of the lichen book. They would ship out the book we needed and a note that said, 'Sorry, but we're out of the lichen book.
~ Brad Stone
The very day after Lincoln's election, an obscure Springfield neighbor named Henry Fawcett dispatched a note begging the president-elect to let him "go with you to the White House as your Body Servant." Fawcett, who listed among his qualifications his experience ringing a local church bell when Lincoln won the nomination, offered "to carry your Messages and so forth…even Shaving you as well.
~ Harold Holzer
The world is full of incomprehensible words
~ Haruki Murakami
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.
~ Dick Cheney
There is a tendency among people within a profession to use or create words whose meanings are clear only to others within their narrow group and obscure to the rest of the world. This tendency in all specializations is a barrier to communication and a support of self-serving secrecy in an "in" group. Writers have an obligation to defend their language against the assaults of jargon.
~ Sol Stein
That which works is authentic. It's a practical truth. What really matters is that we find benefit, regardless of whether it's an ancient traditional approach or some new version, popular or obscure.
~ David F. Swensen
The truth was obscure, Too profound and too pure, To live it you had to explode
~ Bob Dylan