Obscurity Quotes - page 5

For a typical author, obscurity is a far greater threat than piracy. (Tim O'Reilly)
Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors and creative artists than piracy. View quote
Tim O'Reilly
I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich. View quote
Ernie J Zelinski
It is not a question of skimming the surface of the art, it must be probed to its depths, for to seize upon superficial things only is to degenerate into mediocrity and obscurity. View quote
Jean-Georges Noverre
The Omarahs mostly consist of adventurers from different nations who entice one another to the court; and are generally persons of low descent, some having been originally slaves, and the majority being destitute of education. The Mogol raises them to dignities, or degrades them to obscurity; according to his own pleasure and caprice. View quote
François Bernier
Much of the obscurity of our effort so far against terrorism originates in the now official idea that the enemy is evil and that we are (therefore) good, which is the precise mirror image of the official idea of the terrorists. View quote
Wendell Berry
Everyone explains that discussions about Socialism are exceedingly obscure; this obscurity is due, to a large extent, to the fact that contemporary socialists use a terminology which no longer corresponds to their ideas. View quote
Georges Sorel
The Atomic Theory and the Periodic Law have been given prominence, since their neglect unfailingly leads to obscurity and triviality. View quote
J. R. Partington
To morrow, I believe, is to be an eclipse of the sun, and I think it perfectly meet and proper that the sun in the heavens, and the glory of the Republic should both go into obscurity and darkness together. View quote
Benjamin F. Wade
Donald had reached its further edge, and could hear the rush of the stream from the deep obscurity of the abyss below, when there rose from the opposite side a strain of the most delightful music he had ever heard. View quote
Hugh Miller
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity. (John Clute)
My first movie ever was 'Breaking Away.' I stumbled into an incredible part in a movie that was incredible to be a part of. Peter Yates, the director, became a lifelong friend. He sort of plucked me from obscurity and gave me a life. View quote
Daniel Stern
Not everyone can be as successful a performer as myself, who gave 10 great performances the first time I ever did comedy, and then toiled in obscurity for years. View quote
Scott Aukerman
Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
Clarity or Decision. ...without it there is uncertainty, hesitation, obscurity, instability... incomparable with good art. The meaning and object of the design should be clear... it should be frank, as the French say. View quote
Ernest Flagg
Characteristically, major social movements are spawned in obscurity at the periphery of public awareness, seem to burst suddenly and dramatically into public view, and eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience. View quote
Freda Adler
A deep fog of obscurity is thrown about war by the use of misleading and confusing terms. View quote
Kirby Page
The abundance of our definitive words about God shows that we don't view him as a great mystery anymore, but as a sterile calculation without ambiguity or obscurity. View quote
Skye Jethani
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. View quote
Edmund Burke
O Star (the fairest one in sight) We grant your loftiness the right To some obscurity of cloud -. View quote
Robert Frost
Still, the change is nearly indescribable - going from total obscurity to walking down a street in New York and having everybody turn and look; to feel the temperature of a room change when I walked in. (Matt Damon)
The huge dome of St. Paul's arose bathed in the moonlight, that giant fane of a giant city, a hundred spires were shining silvery in the soft gleam, and all meaner objects were touched with a picturesque obscurity: all around was silence and rest. The myriad voices of London were still, and nothing vexed the lulled ear of midnight. View quote
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
One of the most pernicious effects of haste is obscurity. View quote
Samuel Johnson
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. View quote
Samuel Johnson
As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us is imbued with the obscurity of the matrix out of which they come; and try as we may, we cannot always decipher them precisely in the clearer light of our day. View quote
Margaret Atwood