"In laboring to be concise, I become obscure. [Lat., Brevis esse laboro, obscurus fio.]"

-- Horace

#Speech Quotes #Obscure Quotes

“My fave routine is The Roller Coaster. First of all it's a great way to get into a card trick, without stating it's a card trick. The routine is so brilliantly structured as to at first, intrigue, psychologically unsettle and then blow away your audience. An extra bonus is that it will hopefully create a welcome respite from bloody invisible deck routines. Worth the price of the book.”
“Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay you low?”
“Art is 'I'; science is 'we'.”

Source : Bulletin of New York Academy of Medicine, Volume IV, 1928.
“I got a head full of headaches, a heart that's full of woes. I'm constantly singin' them down home blues, and not many people knows That leaves me with a twisted view of the whole wide world as I know it... And I guess I got no choice but to be a poet.”

Source : Song: Headaches and Woes
“Let the advocate of animal food, force himself to a decisive experiment on its fitness, and as Plutarch recommends, tear a living lamb with his teeth, and plunging his head into its vitals, slake his thirst with the steaming blood; when fresh from the deed of horror let him revert to the irresistible instincts of nature that would rise in judgment against it, and say, Nature formed me for such work as this. Then, and then only, would he be consistent.”
“The Longs event was the first LPGA event that I played in 8 years ago”
“I don't think there's any Bush baggage at all.”
“Nothingâ€™s changed. Youâ€™ll go home. Youâ€™ll be bored. Youâ€™ll be ignored. No one will listen to you, really listen to you. Youâ€™re too clever and too quiet for them to understand. They donâ€™t even get your name right.”

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