Quotes About Obvious

A lot of people talk to me about writing lyrics and it is obvious they are really paying attention to the fact that ours are different from a lot of other bands.

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.

Finally, it became perfectly obvious. A finish line marks a stopping point. Once we stop, we must start over, and starting over is harder than continuing.

John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament generally.

If you trace the history of mankind, our evolution has been mediated by technology, and without technology it's not really obvious where we would be. So I think we have always been cyborgs in this sense.

Once, the world was full of mysteries, some of them frightening, some of them wonderful, some of them merely fascinating. Now, it can be a banal and predictable place, the tracks of daily life so well-beaten and defined, our culture awash with the imbecile obvious, our existence suffocating in safety. But mysteries remain.

I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true .

As if we'd fall for an obvious trap like that," said Happy. "We're not going to fall for an obvious trap like that, are we? Oh shit, we are. I want to go home.

Everybody knows what a dry text is - one that has left out feeling, one that bores you stiff because if doesn't speak to anything human, hides the obvious under obfuscation, or is simply incomprehensible.

As with so many of my critical decisions, this one came with a healthy dose of "duh!

Her nose wrinkled and she cast him a cautious but hopeful look. "Perhaps your seed has already taken root. We should wait to see if that is the case. 'Tis truth you've no skill at loving, and 'tis obvious I've none as well.

No skill? His mouth closed then fell open and then he snapped it shut with the force of his incredulity. She shrugged. " Ã¢â'¬â"¢Tis a well-known fact that a man is either skilled in matters of loving or matters of war. 'Tis obvious that fighting is your skill." Ewan winced.

That's bloody obvious. A schoolboy with a palsied brain could have worked that one out.

Ils ont découvert le principe de la «lettre volée» d'Edgar Allan Poe : le meilleur cachette est celle qui crève les yeux, car on pense toujours à aller chercher plus loin ce qui se trouve tout près.

To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn't need that and neither did I.

My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at, because the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

But if a man is so obstinately teleological as to continue to ask what purpose is served by the Creator, it becomes obvious that his question becomes impious.

My designs at Ungaro are a lot more sexual, in more of an obvious way: my personal designers are a little bit more sideways.

No element of Mr. Lincoln's character," declared his colleague Henry Whitney, "was so marked, obvious and ingrained as his mysterious and profound melancholy." His law partner William Herndon said, "His melancholy dripped from him as he walked.

Within depression, if my existence is on the verge of collapsing, its lack of meaning is not tragic--it appears obvious to me, glaring and inescapable.

Si supieras lo que te quiero. No te lo había dicho antes porque no hubo ocasión. Y porque además para qué, para qué decir lo obvio…

Plain as a nose in a man's face.

When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why would you keep looking after you've found it?