Obfuscating Quotes

#1. Turkish." Vocabulary was deleted, new words added. Place-names all over the country were Turkified (for example, "Smyrna" became "Izmir"), which only added confusion and another obfuscating layer to the buildup of historical sediment.

Eric Bogosian

#2. We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlightening, but of obfuscating the mind was going on, and the pupils received only so much light as could penetrate the shadow of the Catholic church.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. I see 30 to 40 gallery shows a week, and no matter what kind of mood I'm in, no matter how bad the art is, I almost always feel better afterward. I can learn as much from bad art as from good.

Jerry Saltz

#4. If we concern first with God's Kingdom, we can inhabit all other kingdoms.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. So many people get involved with carrying grudges and having these moral battles with people, where they cast themselves as the righteous and the other guy is the dirtbag. They waste tons of energy on it, create all kinds of darkness around themselves and the other person. It gets you nothing.

Stephen J. Cannell

#6. I would have been glad if it had been the Lord's will to let one of my children live.

Karen Cecil Smith

#7. Be Happy with what we Have Now in the Future it can change, but that is not Always to Better.

Jan Jansen

#8. She hadn't ascribed to this modern notion of equality between the sexes. Woman were patently superior.

Laura Kinsale