#obscure

Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. ↗

— Frederick Pollock

#circle #every #his #narrow

Am I a liar in your eyes?" he asked passionately. "Little skeptic, you shall be convinced. What love have I for Miss Ingram? None: and that you know. What love has she for me? None: as I have taken pains to prove; I caused a rumor to reach her that my fortune was not a third of what was supposed, and after that I presented myself to see the result; it was coldness both from her and her mother. I would not-I could not-marry Miss Ingram. You-you strange-you almost unearthly thing!-I love as my own flesh. You-poor and obscure, and small and plain as you are-I entreat to accept me as a husband. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#obscure #skeptic #love

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

#formulas #god #i #joy #look

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

— Edward R. Murrow

#eventually #longer #obscure #obvious #see

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

— Barbara Pym

#man #obscure #quite #quotations #read

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

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

— Maya Angelou

#difference #facts #obscure #truth #world

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. ↗

— George Berkeley

#darkest #discern #even #eye #glimpse

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

— Don DeLillo

#being #belong #belongs #feel #i

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. ↗

— William Blake

#explicit #grand #idiot #made #men