Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

Is it not obvious that Britain, under the regime of Tony Blair, has ceased to respect the Charter of the United Nations?

Isn’t it obvious, Sage? No, of course it isn’t. I did it so I’d have a reason to be around you — one I knew you couldn’t refuse.

It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.

It'd be great to be so famous that if I murder someone, I will never, ever, ever serve any jail time, even if it's totally obvious to everyone that I did it.

I think my books come out very visual, which is an obvious consequence.

I think the jokes would have been a bit broader and a bit more obvious in terms of the day-to-day of country life.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.

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 on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

It is obvious I shall have to abandon my hopes of getting the Queen's head off the stamps.

It is obvious, I think, that national democracy withers. This has to do with globalisation.

It is obvious that the RUC is no longer accepted as an impartial police force.

It is obvious that the newspaper produces the opinion of the readers.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

I try not to go the obvious route all the time, but sometimes the most obvious is actually the best.

It must be obvious...that there is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses -- the precise place where you would expect to see the least.

I try to make that tension almost stupidly overt in my projects, almost ridiculously so. I keep coming back to the same obvious points again and again.

It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side.

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.

It's obvious that the rest of the world loves high African culture - African culture, period.

It's obvious you shouldn't steal, kill or be cruel.

It's obvious what's timeless and what is not timeless, but you need time to find that answer.

It's perfectly obvious that somebody's responsible and somebody's innocent. Otherwise it [justice] makes no sense at all.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

It was obvious to me that we could never colonize Mars without reusability, any more than America would have been colonized if they had to burn the ships after every trip.

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

It's useful to be born in a different culture because you see things that are not obvious. I come from France. In France, there isn't a pretense of objectivity in publishing. I discovered - and I don't agree with it - that in the US, the New York Times or The New Yorker has to pretend to be objective, and if they present this point of view then they have to also present the other side.

It's weird doing a show on a Saturday, because we get the news after everybody had their way with it. We still have to find a way to get something fresh out of the story, but also keep the integrity of it. A lot of times the obvious take is so obvious it's already been on Twitter, so we gotta find a new thing.

It was obvious that computers were going to become more a part of our lives, and they will continue to unless something dramatic happens to change that.

I would never play any role in anything that involves the United Nations for obvious reasons.

I've always found music that is carnal very attractive but not in the most obvious way.

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics.

I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth.

Make subtlety obvious.

Kindly remember that the obvious is always overlooked.

Let me reminding you what Ted Cruz has told me I don't know how many times. The thing that shocked him more than anything his first few days in the Senate was how 90% of what senators do is get reelected. Ninety percent of their time is spent raising money, organizing fundraisers, dealing with the consultants and all who raise the money, planning the events. The other 10%'s being a senator. It shocked him. It was that blatant, that obvious.

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious

Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and mistakes become really obvious.

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.

Making the solution seem so completely inevitable and obvious, so uncontrived and natural - it's so hard!

Nothing lasts in New York. Everything's always changing in really obvious ways.

Monster is a compassionate picture without any obvious agenda. And it's effective precisely because it's not a polemic.