Obscure Quotes - Page 3

You can be so dignified that you obscure the reality of what is going on.

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.

Facts can obscure the truth.

The Light in you is the unalterable truth of who you are. You can deny it and obscure it, but you cannot uncreate it.

I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.

The more obscure our tastes, the greater the proof of our genius.

I'd rather hear an ugly truth, rather than an obscure lie.

I heard Tom Waits in this kinky shop on Belmont Street in Chicago. Considering the way I was raised, they were such obscure voices, but their music saved my life - I didn't know who I was before I heard Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.

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

She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.

I had been digging so much for my show, Minimal Wave - constantly finding fresh old material to play every week - that I ended up discovering all these obscure bands that no one had really heard here. It was very exciting to be able to play their records on the air for a new audience and be able to get instant feedback.

Things are more beautiful when they're obscure.

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

When I started playing solo 10 years ago, I had some ham-fisted idea about trying to subvert the "singer-songwriter" tag/genre, and I tried to obscure my identity into the identity of a collective or band or whatever. That's part of the reason that I used to play with backing tapes and why so much of my early stuff was so awash in tape hiss and echo noise.

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

There's a lot that is awful. That's the struggle of getting old. To make sure you don't let what's hard...obscure the beauty.

Do they [the publishers of Murphy] not understand that if the book is slightly obscure it is because it is a compression and thatto compress it further can only make it more obscure?

Sometimes I'll go into an interview not knowing what it's about or who it's for. Sometimes I'm a little bit more prepared. I've been in certain interviews where they ask me questions that I know nothing about. Like obscure albums and they want to know my favorite song and I don't even know what to say.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

The function of a great library is to store obscure books.

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.