It is really funny when people say you'd be obvious for a great villain. — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
Common sense … has the very curious property of being more correct retrospectively than prospectively. It seems to me that one of… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it,… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
One of my favourite games as a child was to dress up and improvise. Acting seemed obvious. — Billy Howle Copy Share Image
Since almost all Negroes are workers, live on wages, and suffer from the high cost of food, clothing and shelter, it is… — A. Philip Randolph Copy Share Image
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true . — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
Polly felt questing eyes boring into her. She was embarrassed, of course. But not for the obvious reason. It was for the… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women and children have… — Cesar Chavez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy. — Kit Harington Copy Share Image
One of the really fascinating areas is marketplaces that take advantage of mobile devices. Ridesharing is the obvious example, but that's just… — John Collison Copy Share Image
Subtlety chases the obvious up a never-ending spiral and never quite catches it. — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
It's instructive to consider the more spectacular and well-known falls from grace of leaders in the public eye... In the main, the… — Peter Cosgrove Copy Share Image
Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
It seems an obvious thing to say, but you should not imagine that we Pakistanis are all potential terrorists, just as we… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
The attention someone gives to what he or she makes is reflected in the end result, whether it is obvious or not. — Erik Spiekermann Copy Share Image
Everything, no matter how evident or obvious, should be doubted, questioned, viewed with suspicion....There is much to be gained from the discovery… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
It's weird doing a show on a Saturday, because we get the news after everybody had their way with it. We still… — Michael Che Copy Share Image
“There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. You didn't take one step, then… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
When I look at designer books I am sometimes puzzled why they don't share their inspiration, when it's obvious somebody had such… — Anna Sui Copy Share Image
Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect. — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Autumn truly is what summer pretends to be: the best of all seasons. It is as glorious as summer is tedious; as… — Gregg Easterbrook Copy Share Image
