Obvious Quotes · Page 28

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

— Nick Flynn

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an…

— Rudy Rucker

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

— Jeff Goodell

It seems to me that what the artist sees is the simple and obvious that is invisible to everybody else.

— Hubert Selby, Jr

Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

— Robert Genn

The ugly truth about being butt hurt is even if you say you're not, it's obvious that you are

— John Vercetti

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward…

— Nelson Goodman

I just think, in every acting choice that you make, you've got to go for the least obvious choice.

— Claire Foy

Services provided to individuals who are irreversibly prevented from being or becoming participating citizens are not basic and should not be guaranteed.…

— Ezekiel Emanuel

Our rockets can find Halley's comet, and fly to Venus with amazing accuracy, but side by side with these scientific and technical…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

I don't think I could ever work in such a blatantly hierarchical corporate setting. I know that everyone in this world is…

— Peter Cameron

We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second…

— William J. Clinton

So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was…

— Malcolm Wallop

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at…

— Wil S. Hylton

-"Then what," Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, "is making…

— Anonymous

The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing…

— Fred Rogers

The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral…

— Rebecca Solnit

Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland.…

— Jan Struther

Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously…

— James P. Hogan

We didn’t deny the obvious, but we didn’t entirely accept it either. I mean, we said hello to it each morning in…

— Jeffrey McDaniel

The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states…

— Ludwig von Mises

President Hinckley is not only a living prophet but also a living seer. He sees things that others do not see. He…

— David E. Sorensen

When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are…

— Theodore Dalrymple

It's pretty obvious there's a lot of corruption in the world right now. That takes many forms. There's economic, political, religious, social…

— Mark McGwire

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race.

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Jock Sturges

You want everybody to like your work, but when you look at what's fashionable or trendy, it's pretty obvious that I don't…

— Steven Van Zandt

It's understandably obvious, when I was making 'Company,' of the underworld genre, people would compare it to 'Satya.'

— Ram Gopal Varma

You don't need the 'voice of God' commentary. Instead, by juxtaposing contradictory or confirmatory witnesses and archive material, your point of view…

— Marcel Ophuls

you know you have made a theoretical advance when you can no longer reconstruct why you failed for so long to see…

— Daniel Kahneman

Every rock or molotov cocktail thrown should make a very obvious political point. Random violence produces random propaganda results. Why waste even…

— Abbie Hoffman

It's easy to get rid of things when there is an obvious reason for doing so. It's much more difficult when there…

— Marie Kondo

It is assumed that the skeptic has no bias; whereas he has a very obvious bias in favour of skepticism.

— Anonymous

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

— Erik Spiekermann

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

— Charles Baudelaire

The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little…

— Bjorn Lomborg

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that…

— Shlomo Breznitz

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

— Robert Goulet

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they…

— Andre Gide

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese…

— Kazuo Ishiguro