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.

Ted Cruz

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

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

David Ogilvy

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

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

Armando Iannucci

Joe Biden is that special combination of someone who is very talented and influential, but when he starts speaking, there's inevitably going to be headlines written about something he said.

Gordon Strachan

If I say anything at all there will be headlines all over the place.

Bill Walsh

Writing headlines is a specialty-there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.

Ayn Rand

A good quotation must be a complete entity. It must be like a headline - sharp, clear, whole.

Wade Boggs

My God, ... What are the headlines going to be like on Monday if the Yankees don't make the playoffs?

Joe Cangemi

Headlines have been keeping the markets emotionally tapped.

Carl Hiaasen

I wait for the headlines to inspire me.

Jason Calacanis

These days, headlines are trying to get you to click.

Leon Panetta

These days, it takes only seconds - seconds - for a picture, a photo, to suddenly become an international headline.

Barbara W. Tuchman

I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Marilynne Robinson

Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time.

Barry Eisler

If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

James O'Shea

We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.

J. A. Konrath

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Noah Cowan

Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,

Nick Harkaway

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

Nancy Kress

As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know.