All serious writers want the obvious rewards: fame, money, women, love -- and most of all, an audience! — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
I have a particular disdain for Islamic extremism, and of course, in both 'The Kite Runner' and 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' that's… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Although I dig my guitar playing, I think it's kind of an obvious situation; I play what I want to play within… — Pete Townshend Copy Share Image
I refused David Letterman's proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. — Teri Garr Copy Share Image
The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you. — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
“The wealth in this world are like green fruits hidden among green leaves. It stares everyone in the face, yet nobody sees… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France. — Christian Blanc Copy Share Image
To keep hope alive one must, in spite of all mistakes, horrors, and crimes, recognize the obvious superiority of the socialist camp. — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
It is sufficiently obvious, that persons and property are the two great subjects on which Governments are to act; and that the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Of one thing the executive may be sure: that the majority want more of the good things of life, and if they… — Felix Morley Copy Share Image
What is the relationship of the obvious things that we see around us to the things that we believe we understand within… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
It is shocking that young people should be addling their brains over mere logical subtleties in Euclid's Elements, trying to understand the… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by… — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
From whence it is obvious to conclude that, since our Faculties are not fitted to penetrate into the internal Fabrick and real… — John Locke Copy Share Image
I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The receipt to make a speaker, and an applauded one too, is short and easy. Take common sense quantum sufficit; add a… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
There is no mission, nor interest to convert, and yet I believe that if this state of consciousness could become more universal,… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
This is where the question always come up, "Aren't you going to split the vote?" To which the obvious answer is: Well… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
For me George Bush is just as scary, if not more. Because he doesn't look like a scary guy, because he's shaved… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
I started taping my dad's auditions when I was 11, when he was auditioning actors for one of his movies. I would… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
I love what you might call brutal elegance. Where form and function are really obvious. There is nothing easily broken in this… — Meg Ryan Copy Share Image
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Sometimes I make certain assumptions but find they're not immediately obvious to my players. — Niko Kovac Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the bumper sticker question "What would Jesus do?" will not always bring a popular response. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He… — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
Most new insights come only after a superabundant accumulation of facts have removed the blindness which prevented us from seeing what later… — Isidor Isaac Rabi Copy Share Image
“You're very observant, Jimmy,” he said, and I thought it was pretty dumb to call it observant—it seemed obvious.” — James Dashner Copy Share Image
The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit… — Giles Deacon Copy Share Image
Whether or not we follow any particular spiritual tradition, the benefits of love and kindness are obvious to anyone. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best. — Al Yankovic Copy Share Image
Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Just because something makes sense after the fact doesn't mean it was obvious all along.” — Sam Gosling Copy Share Image
Aside from the obvious chocolate cookies and ice cream, chocolate can be used in a variety of ways for desserts. — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
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