Obvious Quotes · Page 11

There is no mystery whatever — only inability to perceive the obvious.

— Wei Wu Wei

“There will always be much more behind what happens than is initially obvious.”

— Steven Redhead

If someone is doing cosplay for the wrong reasons it's blatantly obvious.

— Jessica Nigri

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

— Kate Smith

I wasn't an obvious actress in any sense of the word.

— Maxine Peake

Haruhi: Whaddaya think I am?! The Twins: To us? Why that's obvious-- a toy!

— Bisco Hatori

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

— Matt Berninger

“You’re so obvious. Why didn’t you just roll in dog shit to make your outfit complete?”

— Jamie McGuire

If we are to maintain a relevant and just industry, we must all open our eyes to the obvious lack of equality…

— Jay Duplass

One of the most obvious parts of my character is the smile, and if I wasn't comfortable in myself then I wouldn't…

— Max Walker

Sometimes what is most important to us is not obvious and can be seen only by how we respond to our husbands…

— Linda Dillow

When you're a large black man in Hollywood, the obvious stereotype is one of force and menace.

— Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors…

— Jon Porter

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.

— Edward R. Murrow

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one day at least of every year, was…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thinks it's so weirdly apparent and…

— Chelsea Leyland

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and…

— Joe Biden

As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak…

— Charles Francis Richter

Goblins burrowed in the earth, elves sang songs in the trees: Those were the obvious wonders of reading, but behind them lay…

— Francis Spufford

First of all, we have exactly the opposite type of audiences, for obvious reasons. So the competition is not going to be…

— Antonio Banderas

One of the most obvious reasons to start using timber rather than concrete is that it's the one commonly grown and therefore…

— Magnus Larsson

I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number…

— David Chalmers

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put…

— Diablo Cody

It seems obvious that there comes period in your life when you have to learn to say no to things you don't…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

That Hegelian dialectics should provide a wonderful instrument for always being right, because they permit the interpretations of all defeats as the…

— Hannah Arendt

I see exercise taking this perverted detour. The original intention of exercise was to heal and maintain health. Now I see it…

— Bryan Kest

I think any time you have any kind of social ill, not just domestic violence...as much as it's about the act, the…

— Malik Yoba

What I learned about them, I liked. But it also seemed that the liberal line was not entirely correct, for it was…

— David Duke

Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the…

— Terry Pratchett

A Foreign Secretaryand this applies also to a prospective Foreign Secretaryis always faced with this cruel dilemma. Nothing he can say can…

— Harold MacMillan

Language became a colorless and as indistinct as the business suit which is now worm by everyone, by the scholar, by the…

— Paul Feyerabend

[Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we…

— Carl Sagan

Yet I calm disent embarrassed by your obvious.

— Skin

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.

— Alfred Bester

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

— Arthur Koestler

Thank you, Captain Obvious." "I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.

— Karen Chance

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

— Jerry Seinfeld

Just because things are obvious doesn't mean they're true.

— Terry Pratchett

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

— Aidan Chambers

It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumptions.

— C. West Churchman