“Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.”
“I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in ‘Four Weddings’.”
“I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.”
“I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.”
“Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.”
“Hardship makes the world obscure.”
“Be obscure clearly.”
“In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.”
“The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.”
“Dave Van Ronk is not an obscure figure. He’s the biggest figure on an obscure scene, playing a kind of niche music that we knew and liked.”
“Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.”
“The bands I like are not obscure at all. Far from it.”
“It’s quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.”
“Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.”
“I strive to be brief but I become obscure.”
“In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.”
“It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.”
“Never be so brief as to become obscure.”
“It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.”
“I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.”
“We don’t want it to be obscure music. We’re not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.”
“Contempt for men pervades the most obscure strata of our society.”
“Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.”
“There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.”
“I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people’s tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known.”
“A Constitution should be short and obscure.”
“More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.”
“I like what’s obscure.”
“Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.”
“I want my books to sell, to be read. I’m not interested in being obscure.”
“Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.”
“A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.”
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