The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust? — Chris Mooney Copy Share Image
Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The obvious effect of frivolous divorce will be frivolous marriage. If people can be separated for no reason they will feel it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing. — Liz Brixius Copy Share Image
I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff… — Joe Copy Share Image
I am a huge wrestling fan. I would say The Rock is my favorite person to watch for obvious reasons. — Paige VanZant Copy Share Image
I think Mitch McConnell and, to a degree, Paul Ryan - they do not want Donald Trump's populist, economic nationalist agenda to… — Steve Bannon Copy Share Image
People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Well, the clues are there. They always are. Which is why when crimes are solved decades after the fact, it's obvious that… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Men aren't really complicated. They are very simple, literal creatures. They usually mean what they say. And we spend hours trying to… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
Isabelle," she said, lightening her tone with an obvious effort, "your loyalty to your friend is understandable --" "He's not my friend."… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
As you may possibly have noticed from time to time, I have tended to make a habit of sticking my head above… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
To narrate is to give oneself: it seems obvious that literature, as an effort to communicate fully, will continue to be blocked… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
With so much reading ahead of you, the temptation might be to speed up. But in fact it’s essential to slow down… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I think movies in general should have more respect for the audience than they do. Too many films are afraid to confuse… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
There were obvious budgetary and time constraint differences. With Jamie Marks is Dead, we were operating on a pretty small finance level.… — Cameron Monaghan Copy Share Image
Trump is the candidate giving voice to untold millions of fed-up Americans witnessing a purposeful destruction of our economy and the equal… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they… — Scarlett Johansson Copy Share Image
“That’s what life is all about. The obvious. The minute we start layering it with shades of grey, we start getting caught… — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
A startup is a company working to solve a problem where the solution is not obvious and success is not guaranteed. — Neil Blumenthal Copy Share Image
There is enough oil in the ground to deep-fry the lot of us, and no obvious means to prevail upon governments and… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it… — Plato Copy Share Image
To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think anybody who likes Cardiacs, they tend to be quite evangelistic about them for obvious reasons. They're not a band you… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like… — Frances Stark Copy Share Image
Irresponsibility breeds irresponsibility. The finances of government are so central. You'd think that would be pretty obvious. — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
When you look around the room during meetings and practice, you see that everyone has the same goal. It's obvious by the… — Eric Kendricks Copy Share Image
I don't think, post 9/11, we're going to wait for real obvious things like Country A attacking Country B - because Country… — Thomas P.M. Barnett Copy Share Image
It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
A surreal and ultimately disgusting facet of the Iraq fiasco is the lag between when a fact becomes obvious and when the… — George Will Copy Share Image
Love itself is obvious.You meet, love, part ways, get hurt and you meet again. I bet people get married because they’re tired… — Kim A-joong Copy Share Image
There was already a famous Sternberg in psychology and it was obvious there would not be another. — Robert Sternberg Copy Share Image