Obscurity Quotes

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry. - Ernest Gellner

The oil market once again has been pulled out of potential obscurity by another host of geo-political events. - Phil Flynn

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell. - Adrienne Rich

The line between greatness and obscurity is very, very small. - Peabo Bryson

Sightings of shape shifting dissolved into the darkness. A final opinion is of less value than an appreciation of, and tolerance for obscurity. - Chiodos

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? - Henry David Thoreau

Purity is obscurity. - Ogden Nash

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting. - Edmund Burke

Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. - Wilhelm Wundt

One piece that looked like it was doomed - we were going to shoot it in this hotel hallway, and it was just my character musing that maybe this was just the beginning of something, maybe we were on our way out of obscurity or something, and then we were setting up to do it - and we just had to get this other shot. - Michael McKean