Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed.

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.

I like what's obscure.

Elections should highlight principled disagreements, but they must not obscure our capacity to cooperate for the common good.

It flourished with the Saracens, and suffered in the obscure and fanatical days of the Middle Ages.

I strive to be brief but I become obscure.

A lot of the novels that I've really enjoyed in my life, whether it's Tolstoy's 'Cossacks,' or 'Sons and Lovers' or 'Jude the Obscure' or 'David Copperfield' or 'Herzog,' have an autobiographical spine.

Sometimes people get passionate about the obscure jokes.

Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.

Billions have been spent for one purpose and one purpose only: to obscure and distract from the fact that Mitt Romney is backing the identical agenda George W. Bush did.

One characteristic of modern poetry is that arrangement of parts which strikes many people as being violent or obscure.

That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use of language and slang, and criminal underground terms.

Had the followers of Jesus remained an obscure Jewish sect, most of you would not have learned to read, and the rest of you would be reading from hand-copied scrolls.

Obscure as still remains the origin of that 'genre' of romance to which the tales before us belong, there is little doubt that their models, if not their originals, were once extant at Constantinople.

It's quite an obscure notion for a kid, no? To want to be a curator. But even then, I knew that I would do this.

The attacks of September 11 persuaded many Americans that what might seem to be obscure or distant potential threats can very quickly materialize and it therefore makes sense to attend to them even before they become urgent.