Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

Rock & roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

More people are troubled by what is plain in Scripture than by what is obscure.

In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled.

A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

There are strange things lost and forgotten in obscure corners of the newspaper.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

The whole purpose of propaganda is to make the obvious seem obscure, or offensive

It is better to be famous than notorious, but better to be notorious than obscure.

Charles Dickens is a lot of fun to read but it's not obscure, and that's just fine.

There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

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

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

I play popular songs. This is not some obscure, unusual music. This is popular music.

I'm not a career politician, so the ways of Washington may be a little obscure to me.

In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]

Written forms obscure our view of language. They are not so much a garment as a disguise.

We don't want it to be obscure music. We're not trying to be indie. We want to be popular.

My bassist Jorgen Jorgensen opened up my life to a lot of great, obscure old soul records.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

Our minds are mysterious; our conscious brain is like a ship on a sea that is obscure to us.

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

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

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

Life never ceases. Life is an overflowing source, and death is only an obscure effect of illusions.

Being obscure in acronyms is great. I think I'll start making up my own... INYM - I'm Not Your Momma.

The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.

My mom watches really obscure stuff on IFC. She's a real comedy fan. She knows everything that's going on.

Boyhood is distracted for years with precepts of grammar that are infinitely prolix, perplexed and obscure.

The life of famous men was more glorious in antiquity; the life of obscure men is happier with the moderns.

Simplicity, for reasons that are a little bit obscure, is almost not pursued, at least in the academic world.

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

I started buying ill, obscure records, and then I saw Portishead and Air live, and my mouth was on the ground.

I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

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.

I try not to obfuscate or to be to obscure or to be too cerebral. I like to work on a visceral, emotional level.

The notion of the single man began in the 1950's. The idea of the bachelor as a separate life was new and obscure.

Central banking often comes across as obscure and complicated, and we try to help the public understand what we do.

I went for endless auditions for tiny parts in obscure plays, and never got one job until I was in 'Four Weddings'.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

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