Obvious Quotes

I was at the first Minor Threat show, and you could tell, 'This band is going to be the king of the town.' It was obvious. They were so good.

It is obvious that while science is struggling to bring Heaven to earth some men are using its materials in the construction of Hell.

Well, I'm just about at the elevator up to the family quarters. But bear with me for just a minute more as I confirm who I am . It's obvious: I'm the president of the United States of America!

And a more foolish notion can scarcely be imagined, it being obvious that the reader is only informed of what the writer wishes him to know, and is thus seduced into believing almost anything.

Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.

I usually do get to play the very sweet, charming roles... but I'm not an obvious kind of villain.

I've had a lot of different responses to my films. I got a lot of support from 'The Piano,' the obvious one, but it feels like an ocean, with a lot going on - the goal is to keep alive.

I gave guitar lessons. I tried to join bands. My mom always said it was obvious that nothing was going to stop me.

Anything that we're connecting with that's happening right now, there's an obvious vulnerability - because we're just fragile human beings in the middle of a just-now expression.

I know, a lot of the films I've done, it's obvious I'm going to beat up six guys and just walk out the door. There's not a lot of motivating factors - it's just action for the sake of action.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

One of the things it was obvious you could do with an online store is have a much more complete selection.

Christmas is the one day of the year when it's most obvious someone's missing. It had to become less about the presents.

Nowhere has the political power of coal been more obvious than in presidential campaigns.

Tablets generally have made it pretty obvious that magazines have a new lease on life.

Insight is 'mental vision,' one of the ways in which the mind escapes the limits of the obvious or the familiar.

Let's draw the boundary early not wait until it's obvious like Hitler's Germany and insist that the state shall never, never, take the life of a person!

There's more to life than making shallow, fairly obvious observations.

The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.

TV can play a role in delivering that emotion as well as the obvious ability to reach a lot of people quickly with that message.

I never start with the story first, which is maybe obvious, because the narrative line of my films is really not that strong or dramatic. They're very simple.

I think it's quite painfully obvious when someone's practicing through an amp, as opposed to someone who's really laying down some stuff that just happens to be fast.

As the years passed, and I was nine, 10, 11 years old, it became obvious I was going to start up a business of some sort.

It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

Not to ask the obvious question, but why Alaska?

I figured something out," he said aloud. "The future is unpredictable." Hassan said, "Sometimes the kafir likes to say massively obvious things in a really profound voice.

No society ever seems to have succumbed to boredom. Man has developed an obvious capacity for surviving the pompous reiteration of the commonplace.

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.

People didnt know until I said it publicly that I had a nasty side. It was never obvious to the fans. I never lost my head, you see. Never got sent off.

Barry White seemed so filled with self-parody at first that it was easy to dismiss him. But it is becoming increasingly obvious with every additional release that he is a very talented man.

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 per year.

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

That one individual should awaken in another memories that belong to still a third is an obvious paradox.

I want to keep working with people that care about what they're doing. It seems obvious, but it's not. It's sometimes hard to keep on that track.

One of the reasons that Donald Trump cannot properly respond to what was an obvious proper response from an America president is the people in his government.

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

For me, the dialogue is the easiest part of writing. It just always seems so obvious what a character will say. Maybe its because I talk too much!

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet

The thing with Bill Shatner is he brings something unique to everything he does. He's not the obvious choice for anything, but he always brings something special to it.

It was pretty obvious Lena wanted to be asked. Another mysterious thing about girls- they want to be asked to stuff even if they don't want to go.

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.

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

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.

I was bitterly resentful, but somehow greatly relieved. And I respected him enormously for his clarity of thought, his obvious caring, and his unwillingness to equivocate in delivering bad news.

He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent. (on David Beckham)

Love itself is obvious.You meet, love, part ways, get hurt and you meet again. I bet people get married because they’re tired of repeating those things.

I think the US and UK thought if they gave a bit more time to Israel, they would crush Hezbollah. But it became very obvious that was an unwinnable war.

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