Obscurity Quotes. QuotesGram

Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

David Lynch plucked me from obscurity. He cast me as the lead in 'Dune' and 'Blue Velvet,' and people have seen me as this boy-next-door-cooking-up-something-weird-in-the-basement ever since. I was 23 when I first met him, in his bungalow on the Universal lot, and could never have predicted we would have such an enduring relationship.

One must choose between Obscurity with Efficiency, and Fame with its inevitable collateral of Bluff.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

The mind's passion is all for singling out. Obscurity has another tale to tell.

I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.

Obscurity Quotes

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