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.

David Ogilvy

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

Ted Cruz

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

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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

John Milton

Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way.

Horace

Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.

Horace

I strive to be brief, and become obscure.

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?

Gordon Strachan

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

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.

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.

Joe Cangemi

Headlines have been keeping the markets emotionally tapped.

Hiroshi Chano

Investors are more sensitive to negative headlines after seeing interest rates and oil prices rise.

Kathryn Stockett

The first book you write because of the way it makes you feel. The second one you can't help but wonder how it's going to make the reader feel.

Nick Harkaway

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

Lee Siegel

The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval.

Barbara Park

There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Bobby Ghosh

'Time' is an internationalist publication catering to internationalist readers who are not only interested in their own backyard.

Kurt Vonnegut

You've got to be a good date for the reader.

P. J. O'Rourke

When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side.