Obvious Quotes

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Another dream. Another long-distance call on my phantom party line. No wonder i had steadfastly refused to have dreams for most of my life. So… — Jeff Lindsay
Well, he was wearing those really bad pants ant that awful shirt. Clearly he did need some things explained to him bya teenager, but i… — P. C. Cast
Man was entering under false pretenses the sphere of incredible facilities, acquired too cheaply, below cost price, almost for nothing, and the disproportion between outlay… — Bruno Schulz
There are four simple ways for the observant to tell Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar apart: first, Mr. Vandemar is two and a half heads… — Neil Gaiman
I'm too drunk to recall much of what I've said. Which, come to think of it, is probably just as well, judging by the way… — Iain Banks
I was rather literary in collegeâ€”one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'â€”and now I was going… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Things always become obvious after the fact — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Making judgments on films is in many ways so peculiarly vaporous an occupation that the only question is why, beyond the obvious opportunities for a… — Joan Didion
He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the… — Neil Gaiman
The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems… — Fred Rogers
It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for… — Douglas Adams
How aware are we of our own inner life, our spirituality-something so intangible yet so priceless? How much effort do we make to perceive that… — Daisaku Ikeda
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people. — Haruki Murakami
I wasn't sure what I expected her to do or say to this. It was all new to me from that second on. But clearly,… — Sarah Dessen
The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret… — Joyce Carol Oates
Itâ€™s obvious you kids are smart-school and good teachers will do that for you-but wisdom is something altogether different. Wisdom can be gathered in your… — Andy Andrews
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The… — Bruce Chatwin
When something seems â€˜the most obvious thing in the worldâ€™ it means that any attempt to understand the world has been given up. — Bertolt Brecht
The wacky thing about those bad guys is that you can't count on them to be obvious. They forget to wax their mustaches and goatees,… — Jim Butcher
One of the world's most tiresome questions is what object one would bring to a desert island,because people always answer "a deck of cards" or… — Daniel Handler

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