Willfully Obscure Quotes & Sayings

People who love jazz musicians love us when we play what we want to play and we're starving. But as soon as you commercialize your sound like Wes Montgomery did, the jazz fans and the critics are down on you! — George Benson

It was the pivotal teaching of Pluthero Quexos, the most celebrated dramatist of the Second Dominion, that in any fiction, no matter how ambitious its scope or profound its theme, there was only ever room for three players. Between warring kings, a peacemaker; between adoring spouses, a seducer or a child. Between twins, the spirit of the womb. Between lovers, Death. Greater numbers might drift through the drama, of course
thousands in fact
but they could only ever be phantoms, agents, or, on rare occasions, reflections of the three real and self-willed beings who stood at the center. And even this essential trio would not remain intact; or so he taught. It would steadily diminish as the story unfolded, three becoming two, two becoming one, until the stage was left deserted. — Clive Barker

Put on light-coloured clothes and some perfume, take care of your body and do everything you can to fight against the forces of darkness. It is not an easy struggle, but it is worthwhile. — Jean Vanier

When I, awoke, they called me crazy;
But only those, whom were still asleep. — Nikki Rowe

Life is a flower in the garden of humanity. It blooms for a short time and then slowly it disappears and becomes a memory on the canvas of infinite time. — Debasish Mridha

Mission arises from the heart of God Himself and is communicated from His heart to ours. Mission is the global outreach of the global people of a global God. — John Stott

It is through victims such as myself who still have a voice that the world will change to be a better place. — Catherine Jane Fisher

There are not many things I find more disgusting than recycled airplane air. — Brittany Bowe

Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first examined it. — T. S. Eliot

In terms of monetary behavior, there are two types of people in this Earth: those who save and those who spend. — Anna Agoncillo

One day I will rule the world with a goat by my side! — Jhonen Vasquez

No one who beats his wife or children, spreads slander in a congregation, or harbors perpetual unforgiveness in his or her heart is full of the Spirit, no matter how many supernatural gifts he or she claims to have. — Craig S. Keener

[on having to lose weight] I thought I'll drink vodka instead of wine because it's less calories! — Sienna Miller

Oh, they never lie. They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and willfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie. Perish the thought. — Iain Banks