Quotes on the topic: Obscure


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I would perhaps like to go back to writing small books about obscure people.


Be obscure clearly.


To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.


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


Hardship makes the world obscure.


When the history of the 20th century is written, there are going to be some pretty obscure people who are entitled to sainthood. And they're not going to be well-known.


For a long time, I didn't think I wanted to live in the Ozarks or write about the region. It seemed to be a sure recipe for obscurity, and to be obscure was not my conscious ambition.


I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.


Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.


'Penthouse' didn't seem to concentrate as much on the girls' faces, and I really wanted to see the girls' faces. It seems like through the 1980's, they almost went out of their way to obscure the girls' faces.


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.


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


I talked to a guy who has old cars, and there are parts that don't exist any more. So he makes radio dial knobs for obscure cars.


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


I'm a bit of a nerd, I wouldn't mind working in a shop selling records, or having a radio show where I could play obscure singles.


I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.


I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.


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


I've always kind of been a little skeptical about bands that won't play their hits. That's really arrogant to me as a music fan. I do want to hear obscure songs, but like most people, I want to hear the hits, so we always play them.


When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.