#obscure

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort. ↗

— Sydney Smith

#day #deal #effort #every #every day

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#like #must #obscure #pardoned #talent

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#glass #like #obscure #vision #words

Being horrible in a big film is a quicker nosedive than doing an obscure film and making no money. ↗

— Renee Zellweger

#big #doing #film #horrible #making

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#footnotes #masterpiece #obscure #series #unfinished

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. ↗

— Bjork

#could #having #i #mind #nerd

A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water. ↗

— James Buchan

#almost #call #century #commodity #existence

Nothing is as real as a dream. The world can change around you, but your dream will not. Responsibilities need not erase it. Duties need not obscure it. Because the dream is within you, no one can take it away. ↗

— Tom Clancy

#away #because #change #dream #duties

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#clearer #i #i am #made #may

Hardship makes the world obscure. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#makes #obscure #world