Obvious Quotes · Page 47

You have to be careful with parodies. I don't like when they're too obvious, 'cause it can be a little cheap.

— Randy Rainbow

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how…

— Lukas Foss

[Donald] Trump has many and one of the most obvious is right here in Washington.

— Chuck Todd

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

— Jules Verne

People didn't see me as a traditional kids' TV presenter, for very obvious reasons.

— Richard Bacon

Sometimes I have thought that a song should look disappointing on the page - a little thin, perhaps, a little repetitive, or…

— James Fenton

Why it is that animals, instead of developing in a simple and straightforward way, undergo in the course of their growth a…

— Francis Maitland Balfour

I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I’d forgotten. I…

— Rick Riordan

Every time you go the way the audience expects, they'll think you're original. People laugh with pleasure at the obvious.

— Keith Johnstone

The charm of the Platonic mode of thought ... consisted precisely in the resistance to the obvious evidence of the senses.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if…

— Elon Musk

It's about having a comprehensive vision that includes things like social supports while providing a high-quality education. It seems obvious, but when…

— Pedro Noguera

There's an obvious investment in some media circles in the "narrative" of "the pope who's finally going to get with it."

— George Weigel

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in…

— Spencer Johnson

One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered…

— Dennis Ritchie

There exists a "fear of freedom" of selfhood, which makes people want to submerge themselves in the mass and confession is one…

— James A.C. Brown

The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power…

— Leo Tolstoy

I was astounded nobody had thought of making a rainbow flag before because it seemed like such an obvious symbol for us.

— Gilbert Baker

It's true: lives do drift apart for no obvious reason. We're all busy people,we can't spend our time simply trying to stay…

— William Boyd

I think it's a great document of John Stevens' originality. At that time he was already much more fully formed in his…

— Evan Parker

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If the proof starts from axioms, distinguishes several cases, and takes thirteen lines in the text book ... it may give the…

— George Polya

Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of…

— Jeff Lindsay

Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.

— Lewis Black

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and…

— Anna Deavere Smith