Obvious famous quotes

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Made #Obvious #Reader

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

#Trying #Sometimes #Obvious

Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
-- Albert Camus

#Death #Matter #Obvious

What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support.
-- Albert Camus

#Believe #Support #Obvious

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

#Facts #Interpretation #Obvious

The test of intellect is the refusal to belabor the obvious.
-- Alfred Bester

#Tests #Refusal #Obvious

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Obvious #Contemplating #Extraordinary

We can't always take the most obvious road in life.
-- Anne Shirley

#Obvious

It's not the meaning of life we seek but our aliveness. Once we have that, the meaning of life is obvious.
-- Anodea Judith

#Meaning Of Life #Life Is #Obvious

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.
-- Anthony Daniels

#Thinking #Prowess #Obvious

The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Crime #Bigger #Obvious

If you make things sound inoffensively obvious, then it is likely that no one will listen.
-- B. W. Powe

#Sound #Obvious

Obvious effort is the antithesis of grace.
-- Baldassare Castiglione

#Effort #Grace #Obvious

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.
-- Billy Wilder

#Clever #Obvious #Subtlety

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

#Stealing #Obvious

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.
-- Boy George

#Records #Obvious

I'd overlooked the obvious because my focus had always been elsewhere! All along, this that I had been seeking was already here.
-- Brandon Bays

#Healing #Focus #Obvious

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

#Shy #Obvious

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.
-- Carlisle Floyd

#Writing #Would Be #Obvious

Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
-- Charles Bukowski

#Drunk #Enough #Obvious

Laying tracks gives you freedom without being too obvious.
-- Claude Chabrol

#Track #Giving #Obvious

I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate, and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.
-- Dale Carnegie

#People #Needs #Obvious

We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.
-- Daniel Kahneman

#Blind #Obvious #Blindness

Its obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
-- Daniel Keys Moran

#States #Obvious #Intellect

Life it is not just a series of calculations and a sum total of statistics, it's about experience, it's about participation, it is something more complex and more interesting than what is obvious
-- Daniel Libeskind

#Interesting #Statistics #Obvious

All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.
-- Daniel Mainwaring

#Men #Wonder #Obvious

The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way.
-- Daniel Quinn

#Way #Sometimes #Obvious

Only recently I’ve learned, it’s an obvious thing, but it just took me a while to realize
-- David Archuleta

#Realizing #Obvious

To me it's very obvious there are huge cultural differences between Americans and Canadians. But a lot of what we are is American.
-- David Cronenberg

#Differences #Obvious #Cultural Differences

...the most obvious, ubiquitous, important realities are often the ones that are hardest to see and talk about.
-- David Foster Wallace

#Reality #Important #Obvious

Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.
-- Deborah Tannen

#Girl #Way #Obvious

The most difficult thing to get people to do is to accept the obvious.
-- Dick Gregory

#People #Accepting #Obvious

Question everything generally thought to be obvious.
-- Dieter Rams

#Architect #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.
-- Don McLean

#Kids #Pneumonia #Obvious

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
-- Douglas Adams

#Habit #Found #Obvious

In art, the obvious is a sin.
-- Edward Dmytryk

#Art #Sin #Obvious

The obscure we always see sooner or later; the obvious always seems to take a little longer.
-- Edward R. Murrow

#Littles #Obscure #Obvious

I see no reason for recording the obvious.
-- Edward Weston

#Photography #Reason #Obvious

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious, but who understands the non-existent.
-- Elbert Hubbard

#Religion #Obvious #Mystic

I feel it is obvious when someone has thought too much about what they're wearing.
-- Elizabeth Olsen

#Too Much #Obvious #Feels

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

#Ugly #Obvious #Behinds

Obvious is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
-- Eric Temple Bell

#Science #Mathematics #Obvious

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

#Typography #Obvious #Persons

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.
-- Ethan Hawke

#Matter #Wave #Obvious

An obvious example is not guaranteeing health services to patients with dementia.
-- Ezekiel Emanuel

#Example #Patient #Obvious

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

#Obvious

If you analyse the function of an object, its form often becomes obvious.
-- Ferdinand Alexander Porsche

#Form #Function #Obvious

Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious.
-- Fred Brooks

#Needs #Tables #Obvious

Mathematics consists in proving the most obvious thing in the least obvious way.
-- George Polya

#Way #Mathematics #Obvious

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

#People #Daring #Obvious

Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.
-- Graeme Simsion

#Failing #Obvious #Humans

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 #Want #Obvious

The continuation that obeys only obvious stack semantics, O grasshopper, is not the true continuation.
-- Guy Steele

#Grasshoppers #Obvious #Continuation

Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.
-- Helen Nielsen

#Jealousy #Obvious

When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating.
-- Henry Flynt

#Self #Problem #Obvious

We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.
-- Hugh Shelton

#World #Devastation #Obvious

It was obvious that he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.
-- Hunter S. Thompson

#Men #Obvious #Rhythm

I wish more people would belabor the obvious, and more often.
-- Ibn Warraq

#People #Wish #Obvious

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

#Pay #Reputation #Obvious

What is really amazing, and frustrating, is mankind's habit of refusing to see the obvious and inevitable until it is there, and then muttering about unforeseen catastrophes.
-- Isaac Asimov

#Habit #Muttering #Obvious

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

#Genius #Obvious #Understood

Once you know the truth, it's always obvious
-- Jennifer Crusie

#Obvious

It looks to me to be obvious that the whole world cannot eat an American diet.
-- Jerry Brown

#Looks #World #Obvious

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

#Thinking #Photograph #Obvious

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

#Saws #Helping #Obvious

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
-- Jock Sturges

#Sensual #Birth #Obvious

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.
-- John Burdett

#Firsts #Obvious #Ask Me

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.
-- John George Nicolay

#Doe #Done #Obvious

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.
-- John Grisham

#Lying #Missing #Obvious

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.
-- John Medina

#Obvious

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

#Natural #Obvious #Inevitable

Nothing is so treacherous as the obvious.
-- Joseph A. Schumpeter

#Obvious

The obvious is obviously wrong.
-- Joseph Granville

#Obvious

When in doubt, do the obvious.
-- Joy Browne

#Doubt #Obvious

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

#Matter #Obvious #Distasteful

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.
-- Kate Bush

#Computer #Dramatic #Obvious

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

#Weight #Obvious

Guys are much more obvious than they think they are.
-- Katherine Heigl

#Thinking #Guy #Obvious

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

#Guy #Kind #Obvious

The obvious is always least understood.
-- Klemens von Metternich

#Thinking #Brainstorming #Obvious

Once you open your eyes and start looking around you, you start picking up things that are very obvious.
-- Kobe Bryant

#Eye #Obvious

Some of the smartest men have a hard time comprehending the obvious.
-- Kristin Cashore

#Hard Times #Men #Obvious

The first mystery is simply that there is a mystery, a mystery that can never be explained or understood, only encountered from time to time. Nothing is obvious. Everything conceals something else.
-- Lawrence Kushner

#Firsts #Mystery #Obvious

Not all dangers are obvious.
-- Leah Cypess

#Life #Danger #Obvious

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

#Book #Thinking #Obvious

Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.
-- Leo Burnett

#Simple #Common #Obvious

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.
-- Lytton Strachey

#Poetic #Psychologist #Obvious

Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
-- Malcolm McDowell

#Directors #Different #Obvious

the inferred is always more effective than the obvious.
-- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#Obvious

All films speak to their times. It becomes obvious only after.
-- Mark Gatiss

#Film #Speak #Obvious

Lyrics need to be good, but they don't need to be obvious right away.
-- Matt Berninger

#Needs #Obvious #Be Good

The power of ads rests more in the repetition of obvious exhortations than in the subtle transmission of values.
-- Michael Schudson

#Subtle #Repetition #Obvious

There's the obvious shift in the tech industry. I'm not really politicized about the whole thing, but it's definitely clear that rent is harder and it's harder for musicians or artists or someone not making a ton of money to live comfortably.
-- Mikal Cronin

#Artist #Musician #Obvious

Things always become obvious after the fact
-- Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#Facts #Obvious

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.
-- Nathaniel Parker Willis

#Satin #Obvious #Vulgarity

Only the prophets see the obvious.
-- Nelson Rodrigues

#Prophet #Obvious

Too far-fetched to believe, too obvious to ignore.
-- Nicholas Sparks

#Believe #Obvious

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

#Chance #Obvious

The obvious is the hardest thing of all to point out to anyone who has genuinely lost sight of it.
-- Owen Barfield

#Sight #Lost #Obvious

Everybody's life has these moments, where one thing leads to another. Some are big and obvious and some are small and seemingly insignificant.
-- Peter Jackson

#Moments #Bigs #Obvious