(62 quotes found)
“I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.”
Baltasar Gracian
“You -- poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are -- I entreat to accept me as a husband.”
Charlotte Bronte
“Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.”
Ovid
“He that is pushing his predecessors into the gulf of obscurity, cannot but sometimes suspect, that he must himself sink in like manner, and, as he stands upon the same precipice, be swept away with the same violence”
Samuel Johnson
“An author is often obscure to the reader because they proceed from the thought to expression than like the reader from the expression to the thought.”
Chamfort
“Color is made to obscure the brightest endowments, to degrade the fairest character, and to check the highest and most praiseworthy aspirations.”
Charles Lenox Remond
“One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.”
William McFee
“Never be so brief as to become obscure.”
Tryon Edwards
“We don't want this argument to be obscured by those who would suggest that anyone who is for more and more government power is somehow on the side of the right, and those who are against it or are skeptical of such grants are on the side of the wrong. This is an important question of all Americans on the left, the right or in the middle.”
David Keene
“Noah has come out of almost complete obscurity. Last year he was getting about eight to 12 minutes a game. This year, he has just flat out in every situation that we've needed him been able to make the big shots.”
Mike Moran
