208 Quotes on Obvious

• Nobody sees the obvious, nobody observes the ordinary. There are more miracles in a square yard of earth than in all the fables of the Church.

  Author: Robert Wilson

• Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

  Author: Billy Wilder

• Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

  Author: Alfred Whitehead

• I see no reason for recording the obvious.

  Author: Edward Weston

• The French had an obvious financial interest in Iraq. That's been documented. They were involved financially in Iraq and in some cases, I think with weapons of mass destruction.

  Author: Curt Weldon

• I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

  Author: George Weinberg

• It'll become obvious that we've really been working against ourselves.

  Author: Neale Walsch

• If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

  Author: Neale Walsch

• So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.

  Author: Malcolm Wallop

• The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned.

  Author: Henry Wallace

• What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

  Author: Bill Veeck

• From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.

  Author: Hideki Tojo

• Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

  Author: Dorothy Thompson

• An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.

  Author: Major Taylor

• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  Author: Yoshio Taniguchi

• No further evidence is needed to show that 'mental illness' is not the name of a biological condition whose nature awaits to be elucidated, but is the name of a concept whose purpose is to obscure the obvious.

  Author: Thomas Szasz

• The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

  Author: Andy Summers

• Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

  Author: Arthur Sulzberger

• I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.

  Author: Jock Sturges

• But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

  Author: Lytton Strachey

• Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• There is much modern music that is better adapted to a wind combination than to a string, although for obvious reasons originally scored for an orchestra. If in such cases the interpretation is equal to the composition the balance of a wind combination is more satisfying.

  Author: John Sousa

• Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is make by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

  Author: George Soros

• It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

  Author: Sam Shepard

• We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

  Author: Hugh Shelton

• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

  Author: George Shaw

• The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

  Author: John Sculley

• The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.

  Author: Michael Schudson

• I teach at USC, and it's obvious to anyone who teaches college students that they don't cover much modern history and certainly not the modern presidency.

  Author: Robert Scheer

• On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

  Author: Pierre Salinger

• Never assume the obvious is true.

  Author: William Safire

• While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.

  Author: Jim Ryun

• Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop.

  Author: Todd Rundgren

• It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

  Author: Rudy Rucker

• Whether one eats a cat or not is a personal choice, and I don't want to sway anyone one way or another. But if you do, there is one obvious cooking tip: Always remember to remove the bell from the cat's collar before cooking.

  Author: Mike Royko

• Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.

  Author: Jon Ronson

• If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

  Author: Diego Rivera

• As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.

  Author: Charles Richter

• When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.

  Author: Elmer Rice

• It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza.

  Author: Richard Reeves

• With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.

  Author: Jon Porter

• The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

  Author: Franklin Pierce

• The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.

  Author: Pablo Picasso

• In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration".

  Author: Alan Perlis

• Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

  Author: Barry Pepper

• After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.

  Author: Jean-Marie Pen

• Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

  Author: Hesketh Pearson

• A man's character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.

  Author: Hesketh Pearson

• Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.

  Author: Thomas Peacock

• No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'

  Author: Trey Parker

• I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his conception than I was. I was sort of struggling to keep up, and sometimes it's pretty obvious.

  Author: Evan Parker

• But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

  Author: Tom Palmer

• It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives.

  Author: Tom Palmer

• In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

  Author: Cynthia Ozick

• I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer.

  Author: Cynthia Ozick

• All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.

  Author: George Orwell

• Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

  Author: George Orwell

• We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

  Author: George Orwell

• If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be.

  Author: Barney Oliver

• Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

  Author: John Nicolay

• I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.

  Author: Joanna Newsom

• Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?

  Author: Howard Nemerov

• So, that notion of hypertext seemed to me immediately obvious because footnotes were already the ideas wriggling, struggling to get free, like a cat trying to get out of your arms.

  Author: Ted Nelson

• I always thought that the badge a cop has was more like the shield that Captain America has. It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with, but it will also protect you.

  Author: Judd Nelson

• The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.

  Author: Edward Murrow

• It's obvious that if you're going to play a character you need to amass information about that person and about their environment or their era that they're in and use as little or as much as necessary.

  Author: Cillian Murphy

• I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were good for me creatively, were not going to be commercially successful.

  Author: Ronnie Montrose

• There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.

  Author: Michel Montaigne

• One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

  Author: Luc Montagnier

• I had some of the students in my finance class actually do some empirical work on capital structures, to see if we could find any obvious patterns in the data, but we couldn't see any.

  Author: Merton Miller

• A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.

  Author: Dennis Miller

• It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person.

  Author: Alice Miller

• The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.

  Author: Joseph McKenna

• Syria and Iran have always had a pretty tight relationship, and it looks to me like they just cooked up a press release to put out to sort of restate the obvious. They're both problem countries; we know that. And this doesn't change anything.

  Author: Mitch McConnell

• A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

  Author: Karl Marx

• Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

  Author: William Marston

• All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

  Author: Daniel Mainwaring

• Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

  Author: Bill Maher

• Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.

  Author: Hugh Mackay

• In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

  Author: Wangari Maathai

• The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

  Author: Jessica Lynch

• It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

  Author: Jack Lynch

• I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

  Author: John Lone

• The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.

  Author: Bjorn Lomborg

• It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

  Author: Alfred Loisy

• My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.

  Author: Jonathan Lethem

• Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.

  Author: Lawrence Lessig

• That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along.

  Author: Madeleine L'Engle

• Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.

  Author: Fran Lebowitz

• I'm not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I've done it's pretty obvious I'm not going to make a 'Mission: Impossible.'

  Author: Jude Law

• Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

  Author: Christopher Lasch

• It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

  Author: Leo Kottke

• Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

  Author: Alfred Korzybski

• At this level, the individual perceives the maintenance of the expectations of his family, group, or nation as valuable in its own right, regardless of immediate and obvious consequences.

  Author: Lawrence Kohlberg

• The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

  Author: Arthur Koestler

• An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

  Author: Alfred Knopf

• It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville.

  Author: Margot Kidder

• The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who can dream of things that never were.

  Author: John Kennedy

• The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.

  Author: Leon Kass

• No, no, it is obvious that the ECU should act as a close alliance for the benefit of chess.

  Author: Anatoly Karpov

• I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.

  Author: Paul Kane

• Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

  Author: James Joyce

• The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

  Author: June Jordan

• Well, you have absolutely no idea what a nightmare it was to be on a set, trying to figure out how I was going to find out what time it is, how I was going to get my meds, and at the same time not have it be obvious to someone.

  Author: Michael Jeter

• As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

  Author: Ron Jaworski

• One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

  Author: Randall Jarrell

• I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are.

  Author: Jim Jarmusch

• Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.

  Author: Dean Inge

• As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.

  Author: Kurt Huber

• Corn is the leading food and feed crop of the United States in geographic range of production, acreage, and quantity of product. The vital importance of a large acreage of this crop, properly cared for, therefore, is obvious.

  Author: David Houston

• It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.

  Author: David Houston

• It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than the investigation of the obscure.

  Author: Oliver Holmes, Jr.

• To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

  Author: Eric Hoffer

• It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.

  Author: Rudolf Hiferding

• Heath, I believed in him when I first met him, and helped and supported him. He went on to obvious success in the States and then I had him support me. It can be a lonely, horrible, hard place. It's great just to have someone to call to say 'I know, man, I was there'

  Author: Martin Henderson

• I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

  Author: Anthony Hall

• It's always obvious to me when someone is looking at me with an idea of who I am and hoping that that's the person I'm going to be. No matter how subtle it is, it's there, and you want to give them who they really want. But it ain't me.

  Author: Judith Guest

• During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

  Author: Bo Gritz

• I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

  Author: Edward Grey

• Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

  Author: Celia Green

• If you start using a medication in a person with autism, you should see an obvious improvement in behavior in a short period of time. If you do not see an obvious improvement, they probably should not be taking the stuff. It is that simple.

  Author: Temple Grandin

• It's obvious that they're going to want Ali's daughter and Frazier's daughter to fight it out.

  Author: Robert Goulet

• I like working with actresses, and I like women a lot, not for obvious reasons, but just in that that there's so much about what they bring to the scene that keeps it so interesting. Their instincts are so different, and they never explain them to you.

  Author: Ryan Gosling

• Ummm... well, the only thing I want to do is stuff with people who care about what they're doing, which sounds obvious, but it's really not.

  Author: Joseph Gordon-Levitt

• All respect for the office of the presidency aside, I assumed that the obvious and unadulterated decline of freedom and constitutional sovereignty, not to mention the efforts to curb the power of judicial review, spoke for itself.

  Author: Ruth Ginsburg

• Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.

  Author: Ruth Ginsburg

• The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

  Author: Andre Gide

• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

  Author: Khalil Gibran

• I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

  Author: Boy George

• Look, very clearly there are things that need to be done urgently in relation to climate change, and of those the most obvious is to have an enforceable and equitable arrangement delivering deep cuts in emissions into the middle of the century.

  Author: Peter Garrett

• I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking.

  Author: Teri Garr

• To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

  Author: David Frum

• It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

  Author: Lukas Foss

• When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.

  Author: Henry Flynt

• I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

  Author: Carlisle Floyd

• Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.

  Author: Brett Favre

• At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.

  Author: Paul Farmer

• I think it's pretty obvious to most people that Napster is not media specific, but I could see a system like Napster evolving into something that allows users to locate and retrieve different types of data other than just MP3s or audio files.

  Author: Shawn Fanning

• It is obvious that putting the Arab-Israeli dispute on a resolution track would be an important element of overcoming the confidence problem in the region.

  Author: Recep Erdogan

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  Author: T. Eliot

• It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

  Author: Albert Einstein

• I'm planning a different show, though for obvious reasons some of the material will be the same, and of course I will perform material from the new CD.

  Author: George Duke

• There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

  Author: Arthur Doyle

• In art, the obvious is a sin.

  Author: Edward Dmytryk

• It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

  Author: Rosario Dawson

• What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?

  Author: Richard Dawkins

• The great discoveries are usually obvious.

  Author: Phil Crosby

• I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.

  Author: Elvis Costello

• They criticize me for harping on the obvious; if all the folks in the United States would do the few simple things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems would take care of themselves.

  Author: Calvin Coolidge

• If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves.

  Author: Mason Cooley

• When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

  Author: Confucius

• My main expertise is in the past, but if I have to extrapolate into the future, I would say: no good news any time soon and an obvious exit strategy is not apparent to me.

  Author: Juan Cole

• It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American workers and manufacturers to gain market access and share.

  Author: Howard Coble

• The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.

  Author: William Clifford

• I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

  Author: Lee Child

• It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.

  Author: Raymond Chandler

• I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and the distinction is obvious to anyone who thinks about the subject a little.

  Author: David Chalmers

• Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.

  Author: Claude Chabrol

• My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

  Author: Randy Castillo

• My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

  Author: Jimmy Carter

• It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery.

  Author: Howard Carter

• The general fact of surplus value, namely that the workmen does not get the full value of his labours, and that he is taken advantage of by the capitalist, is obvious.

  Author: Edward Carpenter

• With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.

  Author: Lois Capps

• I don't know how anyone could vote Republican. It's so obvious that their only interest is keeping the rich rich.

  Author: Vivian Campbell

• But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.

  Author: Steven Brust

• Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off.

  Author: Steven Brust

• It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.

  Author: Jerry Brown

• A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

  Author: Anita Brookner

• When you have a Senate that is 50 Democrats and 49 Republicans and one independent, it's quite obvious that the only way we are going to get something done is if we work together.

  Author: John Breaux

• But it is obvious that our fathers, whose efforts have planted these great and prosperous cities along the once lonely trails of our own broad land, received all the fundamentals of civilization as a heritage from their European ancestors.

  Author: James Breasted

• This recognition of the earlier human background, now so obvious to us, did not come all at once, for the inclusion of history itself in university instruction is an event less than two centuries old.

  Author: James Breasted

• Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

  Author: Edward Bono

• So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

  Author: Ruben Blades

• Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.

  Author: Marsha Blackburn

• Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

  Author: Joe Biden

• Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

  Author: Georges Bernanos

• Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain.

  Author: John Bernal

• The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect.

  Author: Luciano Berio

• It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

  Author: Ahmed Bella

• It seems to be a law of nature that no man, unless he has some obvious physical deformity, ever is loth to sit for his portrait.

  Author: Max Beerbohm

• Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

  Author: Charles Baudelaire

• God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped.

  Author: Drew Barrymore

• Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments.

  Author: Robert Barany

• All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.

  Author: Roger Bacon

• That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.

  Author: Charles Babbage

• Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

  Author: Saint Augustine

• One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.

  Author: Clement Attlee

• It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

  Author: Isaac Asimov

• Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

  Author: Michael Apted

• I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.

  Author: Piers Anthony

• A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

  Author: Jean Anouilh

• I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

  Author: Kojo Annan

• But my answer to that question would have to be, aside from the obvious, which is the people and the relationships that you garner over a long period of time but the catering. The catering. They're the best. So it's the food.

  Author: Richard Anderson

• I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.

  Author: Poul Anderson

• Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based.

  Author: Gillian Anderson

• I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.

  Author: John Amos

• These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.

  Author: Tom Allen

• At the end of the day, they're happy if you do the obvious songs towards the end of the set and you've got to try and make yourself happy by doing certain songs at the front end of the set.

  Author: Rick Allen

• People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

  Author: Ralph Allen

• When we come to images or memories or thoughts, speculation, while always closely related to practice, is more explicit, and it is in fact not immediately obvious that such processes can be described in any sense as practical.

  Author: Samuel Alexander

• To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

  Author: Joseph Addison

• It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.

  Author: Douglas Adams

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