Obvious Quotes

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Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well,… — George Saunders
My father's generation's crisis was fighting fascism. Ours is fighting climate change. It is much harder because you can't see it, it is not an… — Nicholas Stern
The best thing about writing fiction is that moment where the story catches fire and comes to life on the page, and suddenly it all… — Neil Gaiman
As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled… — Chely Wright
I think Michael Caine is a perfectly good actor but it's obvious he's not going to be in one of my films. — Mike Leigh
Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge… — Lawrence Lessig
America is a great power possessed of tremendous military might and a wide-ranging economy, but all this is built on an unstable foundation which can… — Osama bin Laden
I have full confidence in the ability of Foo Fighters' audiences to distinguish between questioning HIV and the obvious value of safe-sex practices. — Nate Mendel
I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way. — Brian Molko
I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew… — Don McLean
That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out… — Steve Vai
Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked. — Deborah Tannen
So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward… — Paul Davies
Liberals want to set up social welfare committees to help whites and West Indians love each other in Birmingham. But all such efforts are doomed… — Lewis Nkosi
... if we are ashamed to imitate our Lord's sufferings, which He endured for us, and to suffer as He suffered, it is obvious that… — Symeon the New Theologian
It is obvious that the only interesting people are interested people, and to be completely interested is to have forgotten about "I". — Alan Watts
Due to our preconceptions regarding education, we fail to inquire into the most obvious and wondrous field of study - ourselves. — Mata Amritanandamayi
Right now our blog on the presence of tape at EMC World is seeing twice as much traffic as all the other EMC World related… — George Arthur Crump
The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public… — Raymond Chandler
The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests. — Breyten Breytenbach
I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we… — Brett Favre
I don't think the 9/11 attacks taught us anything we didn't already know about religion. It has long been obvious - even to the deeply… — Daniel Dennett
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page… — Gillian Anderson
It is an obvious and blatant stupidity beyond my ability to articulate how dumb it is for us not to teach our children how to… — Richard Dreyfuss
I think it's obvious when you're watching a movie, and there's people fighting or someone's slipping on the side of the building, that it's fake… — Ellen Page

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