Obscure Quotes

Hardship makes the world obscure.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

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

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

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

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.

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men.

The Ancient Games are relatively obscure to most Olympians, but to understand just what the Games are about, it is really necessary to investigate the roots and the meaning that has transformed culture and society for so many years.

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental.

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

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

I always laugh at these rock n'rollers where you can't understand them. Mind you, it's not because they're inaudible or indistinguishable; it's because they're too obscure.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

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

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

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

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

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

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.