Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joseph Joubert

Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear.

Donald Barthelme

I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure.

Don DeLillo

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

David Ogilvy

Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines.

Ted Cruz

Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

Don DeLillo

I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.

Agatha Christie

The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Ernest Hemingway

There isnt always an explanation for everything.

Frank Zappa

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

Jethro Tull

He's watching me watching you watching him watching me watching him watching.

James Cook

There are alternate explanations for everything.

James M. Barrie

I do loathe explanations.

Meat Loaf

There's no explanation for success. Success just comes out of life.

Lincoln Child

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

K. Chesterton

The poet only desires exaltation and expansion. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head -- and it is his head that splits.

Daniel H. Pink

Whenever I meet someone new, I always ask the same question... 'So, what do you do?

Greg Anderson

When your friend and best client asks you to help his friend, you do it.

Nathan Vasher

There is no need to be all out of whack when you are trying to play the ball. I'm doing what the coaching staff asks me to do, I'm having the right progressions and the right reads. It just looks easy, I guess. Football is one of those things either you can or you can't. I obviously can.

Nathan Vasher

There is no need to be all out of whack when you are trying to play the ball, ... I'm doing what the coaching staff asks me to do, I'm having the right progressions and the right reads. It just looks easy, I guess. Football is one of those things either you can or you can't. I obviously can.

Edan Lepucki

I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.

Monica Raymund

Little white lies are part of everyday life. If you're in court being charged with a felony, you're probably going to be tempted to lie. Or if your girlfriend asks you if the sweater she is wearing makes her look fat; you're going to lie because you love that person. There are different reasons and justifications to lie; it's human nature.

Michael Ian Black

Whenever anyone asks me if I'm from a TV show, I say yes - no matter whether I've ever been on it. It just makes the conversation that much easier.

M. J. Rose

When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.