Obvious Quotes

It's true that language is in a sense linear but that is as obvious as perceptual space is three-dimensional.

As obvious as it sounds, I strongly recommend shopping at a specialty bike store. They are the experts, and they will be able to help you decide which bike is best for you.

You know what? The obvious is obvious for a reason.

I always enjoy being the obvious homunculus of the pair.

Those things that are the most obvious are the very things we've most likely to overlook.

God, from whose territory I had withdrawn my ambassadors at the age of fourteen. It had become obvious that he was never going to do a thing I said.

That rewriting of literary history is most obvious in the case of The Yage Letters, where I was able to show that the true history inverts the official one.

The explicable requires the inexplicable. Experience requires the nonexperienceable. The obvious requires the mystical.

People are predominant in my paintings. Although they are not obvious, you can feel their presence.

I like the obvious statement, although some people might wish to think they aren't there, that they will go away with time.

The chief value of the rule lies in preventing an immediate and obvious but inferior good from replacing a longer-range, less obvious but superior one.

When we look for propaganda, we have the obvious job of asking what messages are being propagated.

There are many other ways in which language can be used to manipulate an audience. one obvious way is to simply lie.

My other Main Man is Muhamed Ali, for the obvious reasons.

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.

Nothing is as invisible as the obvious.

Whenever I can, I paint the powerful and obvious things in my subject first.

It is pretty damn obvious that there are positive impacts of climate change, even though we are not always allowed to talk about them.

Since...since when?" I finally managed to ask. "Since...forever." His tone implied the answer was obvious.

I didn't answer, but, please - nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling.

I could hear hopefulness in her voice, but also doubt. She was waiting for me to admit the obvious: I’d forgotten. I was toast. I was boyfriend roadkill.

Take a human body, a male and a female, it is obvious that certain parts are meant together. There is a purpose and a design for it and there is a result of that.

I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.

To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.

Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if nothing could be more obvious. “They are reading!

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

The Republican Party clearly is not interested in winning. And if you want to be even more specific than that, it is paramountly obvious that they're not even interested in defeating the Democrats.

Looking at me from the outside, it is not very obvious, I know half my family is black and I feel close to their culture and their color.

It's obvious that I come down on the side of free speech for anybody's work.

It is now quite obvious that the humanists are using public education as the battering ram with which to destroy Christianity in the United States.

When someone starts to change, and it’s obvious, it's sort of natural to wonder why. Right?

If you think about it long enough, you'll see that it's obvious.

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

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.

The great thing about 'Friday Night Lights,' unlike so many other shows and movies, is that it doesn't take the obvious beats to pull your heartstrings or manipulate you.

I expect that you must receive top marks at school, young lady." Madeleine smiled as she stirred her tea. "There are always rewards for those who state the obvious frequently and with conviction.

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.

All good ideas are terrible... Until people realize they are obvious. If you're not willing to live through the terrible stage, you'll never get to the obvious part.

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.

You are not human,” the demon announced. “You have no soul.” “Thank you for the obvious. Did you know you have horns on your head?

The obvious danger is that in some situations [denial] can lead to procrastination in seeking help or to avoidance of action that might prevent harm.

The speed of the human mind is remarkable. So is its inability to face the obvious.

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.

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

If I get angry, it's obvious. I don't have to say much.

I'm a registered Independent. But my brother says it's obvious that I'm a Republican sympathizer. Once I get in the voting booth, it doesn't matter.

I do like being surprised by directors and producers and being offered parts I would never have considered, including parts that aren't necessarily obvious but which would test me.

I expected the illegible and the deeply buried in me to be read as if carved on my forehead, just as I expected the obvious and the ill-concealed to be hidden from view.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

Desires should never be justified,' Tehol said, wagging a finger. 'All you end up doing is illuminating the hidden reasons by virtue of their obvious absence.