#obscure

This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials. ↗

— Michael Musto

#being #commitment #elected #elected officials #elude

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

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

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

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure. ↗

— Baltasar Gracian

#brief #i #obscure #strive

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God. ↗

— Robert Browning

#even #fight #forgotten #give #god

The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#fatal #growth #idea #inside #leaving

No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious. ↗

— Thomas Szasz

#biological #concept #condition #elucidated #evidence

As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood. ↗

— Christian Marclay

#artist #hollywood #not talking #obscure #somewhat