I'm interested in memory because it's a filter through which we see our lives, and because it's foggy and obscure, the opportunities for self-deception are there. In the end, as a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas.
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.
Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.
An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.
For my birthday my husband learned to cook and is cooking one day a week for me. But he only likes to do fancy dishes. So we end up with weird, obscure things in the refrigerator.
Humor, in one form or another, is characteristic of every nation; and reflecting the salient points of social and national life, it illuminates those crowded corners which history leaves obscure.
I don't think I'd have any friends if I didn't obscure at least 99% of my thoughts.
[P]olitical and social and scientific values. . . should be correlated in some relation of movement that could be expressed in mathematics, nor did one care in the least that all the world said it could not be done, or that one knew not enough mathematics even to figure a formula beyond the schoolboy s=(12)gt2. If Kepler and Newton could take liberties with the sun and moon, an obscure person. . . could take liberties with Congress, and venture to multiply its attraction into the square of its time. He had only to find a value, even infinitesimal, for its attraction.
There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!
In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat. , Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio. ]
My own belief is that in most ages and in most places obscure psychological forces led men to adopt systems involving quite unnecessary cruelty, and that this is still the case among the most civilized races at the present day.
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.
I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.
Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate and get started?
Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.
I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
To love it too much is to obscure and not see what is there.