Quotes About Obscure

The modest, the sober, and the learned, are seldom preferred; and the nomenclators, who are commonly swayed by interested motives, have the address to insert, in the list of invitations, the obscure names of the most worthless of mankind

If the Watson-Scotts were just a little too obscure, at least everyone was agreed that Bridget was flavour of the month and he was a lucky dog to have her.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

Initially, I thought problems on how the brain works to be the most interesting. But it was necessary to be practical and concentrate on less obscure matters when I entered Washington State College. Besides, there were no courses given in neurobiology.

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.

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.

Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.

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 was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.

I was given this beautiful coffee table book of Soviet architecture for my birthday. It has a lot of holiday camps, swimming pools, theatres, and buildings that were built for leisure activities. Incredible architecture in the most obscure places. It's a little bit sad, because a lot of it has been left to fall apart.

The corner the light doesn't reach is the one the dime rolled to.

You are likely to see no general reformation till you procure family reformation. Some little obscure religion there may be in here and there one; but while it sticks in single persons, and is not promoted by these societies, it doth not prosper, nor promise much for future increase.

Where'er she lie,Locked up from mortal eye,In shady leaves of destiny.

There are no microbes, yet. God is the lone taker of children, snatching even placeholder souls from one world to the other, according to obscure timetables.

Globalisation creates a world where causes are remote form effects, and the connections between them are often hidden or obscure.

If you run on lies long enough, they become your truth. Such delicate fabric we conceal our motives in. Colors to obscure the truth of our hearts. No one is a bad person in his or her own mind. We are all noble protagonists.

It's a Thing thing. You wouldn't understand.

John Cade's article about the use of lithium in acute mania first appeared in 1949, in an obscure Australian medical journal

Caput tuum in ano est.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And has the nature of infinity.

Viradecthis is an obscure (possibly Germanic) goddess, the meaning of whose name is uncertain. The name may be derived from the words wiro meaning "truth" and dekos meaning "honour", giving a possible meaning of something like "She who honours truth". An inscription to her was found at Birrens set up by the Condrusi, a Germanic tribe serving in the Roman army.[605]

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.