#bsc

Lolita is famous, not I. I am an obscure, doubly obscure, novelist with an unpronounceable name. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#fame #lolita #names #obscure #writers

It’s better for the whole world to know you, even as a sex star, than never to be known at all. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#obscurity #sex

I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#actually #age #define #definition #different

I do very few standards. Hardly any. Other people's tunes that I do are usually obscure tunes, for the most part, although I do a couple of Duke Ellington tunes that are well known. ↗

— Mose Allison

#any #couple #duke #duke ellington #ellington

When I tour, it's like, well, like a food tour as much as a comedy tour. I try to eat at all the weird places, the obscure barbecue joints, burger places. There are a few spots in L.A. that I'm obsessed with - one of them is the Taco Zone taco truck on Alvarado. There are secret off-menu items that are amazing. ↗

— Aziz Ansari

#barbecue #burger #comedy #eat #few

Never be so brief as to become obscure. ↗

— Hosea Ballou

#brief #never #obscure

My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz. ↗

— Casey Abrams

#favorite #great #i #i love #jazz

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#criticism #defense #except #obscurity #their

I really subscribe to that old adage that you should never let the audience get ahead of you for a second. So if the film's abrasive and wrongfoots people then, y'know, that's great. But I hope it involves an audience. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

#ahead #audience #film #get #great

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

— Maya Angelou

#difference #facts #obscure #truth #world