Obscure Quotes
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A Constitution should be short and obscure
Napoleon Bonaparte
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In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.
Horace
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A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous
Frederick Pollock
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G.K. Chesterton
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Acquaintance is a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor and obscure, and intimate when he is rich and famous.
Ambrose Bierce
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Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes
Victor Hugo
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
G.K. Chesterton
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I did become quite well known from "Four Weddings", and it helped hugely. I wasn`t as famous as Hugh Grant, but I certainly began to work. I couldn`t complain. It got me jobs in the theatre. I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays and...
Anna Chancellor
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family. I`m a bit of a nerd, I wouldn`t mind working in a shop like 12 Tónar selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles. I would also like to teach music. I...
Bjork Guomundsdottir
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I was a fan of the Daredevil and Green Arrow characters, so it seemed logical to write them. Now I`m kind of interested in taking obscure characters and seeing if we can turn them into top ten books. I mean, DD and GA had somewhat built-in audiences, so t...
Kevin Smith
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All the little films I`ve done that were perceived by Hollywood as these obscure, weird things, I always thought could appeal to a larger audience. I mean, box office is such a mystery to me that I can`t... you know... I have enough -trouble doing my own ...
Johnny Depp
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You don`t discover the cause of something like AIDS by dealing with incredibly obscure things. You just look at what the hell is going on.
Kary Mullis
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Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.
Mickey Rourke
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Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.
Allan Slater
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Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
Allan Slater
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To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.
Dennis Potter
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These products are really exciting, not only because they are a little bit more obscure, unique, but they also taste really good.
Michael Green
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The world is now aware that the most unavoidable and most dangerous weapon that exists is the blind decisiveness of a man ready to sacrifice his life for an obscure cause.
Amitabh Ray
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The tendency of modern scientific teaching is to neglect the great books, to lay far too much stress upon relatively unimportant modern work, and to present masses of detail of doubtful truth and questionable weight in such a way as to obscure principles.
Andre Leon Talley
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The notion of the single man began in the 1950`s. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.
Hugh Hefner
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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.
Andrea Dworkin
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The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.
Alex Kroll
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Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.
Alysia Waters
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Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.
Martin Short
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Right now most of the communication going on about technology seems unnecessarily obscure and overly technical. Apple still seems to do the best job.
Ali Dakkak
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Relevance to Alzheimer`s? I don`t know, ... It`s a nice piece of work in the snail model, but any possible link to Alzheimer`s is currently obscure.
Peter Davies
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Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.
Alvina Tan
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More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.
Andre P. Brink
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Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.
Andi Melendez
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It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.
Alexis Waggoner
