Obvious Quotes

Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
Bruce Springsteen

Gay, Different, Friends

Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
Brett Favre

Famous, Name, Normal

Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?
Howard Nemerov

Work, Great, Mind

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.
Terry Eagleton

Yourself, Living, Far

A new poll shows that Senator Kerry's support in the South is strongest amongst blacks. Kerry's appeal to Southern blacks is obvious. He is a white man who lives far, far away.
Dennis Miller

Away, Far, Lives

One of the most obvious ways dogs can improve our physical and mental health is via daily walks.
Andrew Weil

Health, Daily, Ways

The nativism behind the push to repeal or amend the Fourteenth is ugly and obvious.
Eric Liu

Ugly, Behind, Push

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.
Alfred Korzybski

Human, Words, Lies

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
E. T. Bell

Word, Dangerous

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

Power, Political, Nowhere

Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realize that I know the meaning/rationale too well, which means that the reader will also know it - and so things have to be ramped up.
George Saunders

Pretty, Write, Means

When you meet the love of your life, it's just obvious and natural and easier.
Vanessa Paradis

Life, Love, Natural

The English are good at bad guys - the James Bond-style villain, cunning, slow-burning. The Americans are much more obvious about it.
Idris Elba

Good, Bad, Guys

That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it, is a principle too obvious to require investigation.
Charles Babbage

Knowledge, Country, State

I do want people to know that the songs that I wrote when I was with women were really about women. And the songs that I've written since have been fairly obvious about men.
George Michael

Women, Men, Since

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country.
Raymond Chandler

Mind, Human, Country

Where I get bored is when I show up for a shoot and they want me to wear a feather boa. Too obvious a thing for a poof on the telly to do.
Graham Norton

Bored, Show, Wear

So I think I'll say the obvious thing: theater is ephemeral. When a production is done, it's gone forever. You can take pictures of it. You can make a film of it. But it's not the production. It's not the same thing.
Tony Kushner

Done, Same, Film

But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.
Javier Bardem

Religion, Father, Remember

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

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

You know, sometimes the little victories that I have throughout the season are not necessarily obvious on the track. Maybe they're another aspect of what I'm doing, winning little victories here and there to get everything in line to be able to perform from top to bottom on race day.
Danica Patrick

Winning, Sometimes, Another

No, writing musicals is the hardest thing in the world. And it was really funny, because I remember when the South Park movie came out, there were some critics that said, 'Well it's obvious that in order to get it to be 90 minutes they filled some time with music.'
Trey Parker

Funny, Music, Time

We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - actually things which influence the genome's function - are much more important than we realised.
Robert Winston

Important, Everybody, Actually

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.
Anna Deavere Smith

Mean, Black, Living

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters.
Hugh Mackay

Children, Play, Become

The benefits of biomedical progress are obvious, clear, and powerful. The hazards are much less well appreciated.
Leon Kass

Powerful, Progress, Less

If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
Felix Baumgartner

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

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.
Rob Sheffield

Heart, Perfect, Play

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