Best 229 quotes in «obvious quotes» category

I don't know if it is obvious, but I am extremely shy.

I feel like I'm kind of an obvious person. I like to keep some things in my life sacred, like keep the sacred, sacred. Apart from that part of my life, I'm a very open person.

If something is repeated over and over as obvious, the chances are that it is obviously false.

I felt like an apostle of the obvious and people imagined that I was doing something daring.

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

If humor is not present, I tend to be concerned about the artist, or distrusting of what they're presenting - unless there is an obvious tragedy being talked about.

If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious.

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 why back then, but now it's obvious.

I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.

I hate to be obvious," added the Scarecrow, "but you'd have saved yourself a heap of trouble if you weren't too cheap to invest in a leash, Dorothy.

I'm very much a "that's so obvious, I must not mention it" kind of guy.

I'm very much a word person, so that's why typography for me is the obvious extension. It just makes my words visible.

Intellect is the ability to avoid belaboring the obvious.

In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.

I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

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

I pretended I had urgent business at the prosecutor's table which, in one of The System's obvious tells, was always millimeters from the jury box.

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

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

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

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

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'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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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