Famous Quotes & Sayings

Umberto Eco

Contemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it.

Heinz Guderian

When the situation is obscure, attack

Joseph Joubert

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

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.

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.

Stephen Young

We allow words to obscure the interpretation of the deeper meaning.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

Wilhelm von Humboldt

To inquire and to create; these are the grand centres around which all human pursuits revolve, or at least to these objects do they all more or less directly refer.

Kevin Youkilis

I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird.

Dylan Brooks

It was a hobbyist pursuit that served a much narrower niche.

P. T. Barnum

Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

Elizabeth Gilbert

I had always been taught that the pursuit of happiness was my natural (even national) birthright. It is the emotional trademark of my culture to seek happiness. Not just any kind of happiness, either, but profound happiness, even soaring happiness. And what could possibly bring a person more soaring happiness than romantic love.

David Brin

The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness.

Richard Peterson

Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,

Aristotle

When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Douglas Kennedy

If there is an abiding theme in 'The Pursuit of Happiness,' it is the idea that you come into the world already shaped by other people's past histories.

Sun Myung Moon

Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.

Richard C. Armitage

Light, trivial comedy does not appeal - it is not something I go to see.

Paul Henderson

When you have cancer, you can define the trivial from the important very quickly.

Jane D. Hull

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wife; and at forty, the judgment.

Bob Dylan

Twenty years of schoolin' / And they put you on the day shift.

Hal Lindsey

Twenty years ago, I said there was going to be something that would stop the Soviet Union from taking over the world. And now we see that the Soviet Union has been stopped, through its own disintegration.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

I don't want any more vicissitudes, I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I've had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.