Quotes by Obscurity It may be hard to monetize fame, but it is impossible to monetize obscurity. Cory Doctorow obscurityimpossiblemay The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity. Cory Doctorow obscuritybigsproblem Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life. D. H. Lawrence obscuritygrowing-upresponsibility In the future, everyone will have fifteen minutes of fame. Followed by fifteen minutes of legal problems, fifteen minutes of ridicule from late-night TV hosts, fifteen minutes of obscurity, and fifteen minutes of "Where are they now?". Dan Piraro obscurityfifteennight Nothing helps an artist's career more than a little death and obscurity. Dan Simmons obscuritycareersart Obscurantism is the academic theorist's revenge on society for having consigned him or her to relative obscurity - a way of proclaiming one's superiority in the face of one's diminished influence. David Lehman obscurityrevengeway All that belongs to human understanding, in this deep ignorance and obscurity, is to be sceptical, or at least cautious, and not to admit of any hypothesis whatever, much less of any which is supported by no appearance of probability. David Hume obscurityunderstandingignorance My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon obscenityobscuritylanguage The obscurity, incredibility and obscenity, so conspicuous in many parts of it, would justly condemn the works of a modern writer. It contains a mixture of inconsistency and contradiction; to call which the word of God, is the highest pitch of extravagance: it is to attribute to the deity that which any person of common sense would blush to confess himself the author of. Elihu Palmer obscuritycommon-sensereligion You need a platform upon which to release an orchestral record, otherwise it's just going to be an obscurity. Elvis Costello obscurityrecordsneeds Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place. Eric Clapton obscurityhouseloss Maybe some people are better off in obscurity than trying to keep on expanding. Erika M. Anderson obscuritytryingpeople I shop a lot more for furniture than I do for clothes. I much prefer going to an antique shop full of obscurities. Erin Wasson antiquesobscurityclothes How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness. Eric Hoffer obscurityviceswriting I have gone from local obscurity to national obscurity to international obscurity. Once I learn how to monetize obscurity, I will be rich. Ernie J Zelinski obscurityrichgone Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure. Georg C. Lichtenberg poodlesobscurityelephants But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. George Eliot obscuritynumberslife Critics should help people see for themselves; they should never try to define things, or impose their own explanations, though I admit that if... a critic's explanations serve to increase the general obscurity, that's all to the good. Georges Braque obscuritytryingpeople Obscurity is a bigger problem than money. Grant Cardone bigger-problemsobscurityproblem When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility. Gilbert K. Chesterton invisibilityobscurityliterature«1234567»
