#bsc

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear. ↗

— James Thurber

#clear #comedy #done #edge #famous

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

#covering #face #greatness #mask #obscures

I don't happen to subscribe to the notion that everybody who criticizes Tom Daschle is criticizing Tim Johnson. I think that's a bit of a stretch. ↗

— John Thune

#criticizes #criticizing #daschle #everybody #happen

I mean, most of it is probably more obscure and just more noisy than either of those two bands, but Thurston has stuff all the time that he's involved with that is fairly obscure and experimental. ↗

— Kim Gordon

#either #experimental #fairly #i #involved

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

#any #common #condition #dynamics #each

Well, we're about 24 million subscribers today, and that's up from about 15 million a year ago, so it's a very high rate of growth, and that's what's exciting about the business - more and more people are getting smart TVs, they're watching Netflix on their iPads. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#ago #business #exciting #getting #growth

The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited. ↗

— Orrin Hatch

#amendment #children #community #families #first

We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country. ↗

— Gilbert Hernandez

#against #allowed #another #country #court

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#blame #clean #grave #holy #light

I've never canceled a subscription to a newspaper because of bad cartoons or editorials. If that were the case, I wouldn't have any newspapers or magazines to read. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#bad #because #canceled #cartoons #case