Obvious Quotes

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These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or… — Tom Allen
When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen… — Elmer Rice
I never expected this to catch on in the way it did! Of course similar observations have been made by any number of people, and… — David Chalmers
Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and… — Todd Rundgren
It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza. — Richard Reeves
I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring. — George Weinberg
I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were… — Edward Grey
It was obvious what kind of game they were playing on the set of Amityville. — Margot Kidder
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the… — Rudolf Hiferding
It soon became obvious that we were but on the threshold of the discovery. — Howard Carter
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of… — Robert Barany
With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes… — Jon Porter
It was fairly obvious to anyone who studied the situation that China was dumping bedroom furniture in the U.S. to the detriment of our American… — Howard Coble
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight. — Kate Smith
While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most… — Jim Ryun
I was working with Bill Graham management at the time and it was obvious to everyone concerned that albums like Open Fire, while they were… — Ronnie Montrose
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes… — Jon Ronson
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the… — William Kingdon Clifford
All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious. — Daniel Mainwaring
People would react to books by authors like James and Austen almost on a gut level. I think it was not so much the message,… — Azar Nafisi
To some, a cap-and-trade system might sound like a neat approach where the market sorts everything out. But in fact, in some ways it is… — Bjorn Lomborg
American conservatism depends on its continued dominance and even for its very existence on people never making connections about the world, connections that until recent… — Thomas Frank
People innately have lots of solutions. It sounds like an obvious thing, but everyone thinks that they can be prime minister; everyone thinks that they… — Mark Thomas
Corporations do a lot of things well, but not run nations, for obvious reasons. — Michael Ian Black
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English kept… — James Fallows

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