Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The main thing in our design is that we have to make things intuitively obvious.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better. — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
“Something is reflecting our thoughts back to us in obvious and not so obvious ways.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force. — Jack Lynch 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
Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The relation between practical and spiritual spheres in music is obvious, if only because it demands ears, finger, consciousness and intellect. — Luciano Berio Copy Share Image
It would have been more obvious to go into film, based on the generation before me, but the generation before them were… — Robert Coppola Schwartzman Copy Share Image
“Emma: It's obvious he likes you. So painfully obvious - and what does he do about it? Nothing.” — Cecilia Gray Copy Share Image
Black is slimming. And so are layers and nice, long vertical stripes. They're obvious tips, but they work! — Perez Hilton Copy Share Image
I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex… — Nate Mendel Copy Share Image
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition - cost, quality, and service - and drive them to… — Jack Welch Copy Share Image
'Three Kingdoms' gives you a panoply of different routes; everyone can find their own path. It shows that sometimes the route to… — Ma Jian Copy Share Image
When you think about a presidential candidate spending all of his or her time talking to that tiny, tiny fraction of us… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I know I'm overweight, everyone can see I'm overweight. It's not a surprise to know I'm overweight. Why do people feel that… — Alison Hammond Copy Share Image
The United States tried, by depressing the clutch of diplomacy and downshifting the gearshift lever of rhetoric, to remain neutral, but it… — Dave Barry 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
“We are stuck on the obvious of this world, and it so fills our minds and our beings that there is little… — Van Harden 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
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
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
