The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. - Andre Gide
Every once in while, a person will do something obvious and direct that is no more than it appears to be. I think they do it to throw you off. - Steven Brust
Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead. - James Joyce
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories. - Celia Green
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. - Jock Sturges
Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based. - Gillian Anderson
What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all? - Richard Dawkins
When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating. - Henry Flynt
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat. - Bill Veeck
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them. - William Kingdon Clifford
Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop. - Todd Rundgren
I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer. - Cynthia Ozick
If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious. - Neale Donald Walsch
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
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. - Jon Porter
That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. - Madeleine L'Engle
I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times. - John Amos
It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives. - Tom G. Palmer
It's like our relationship is always about the other side that isn't the obvious side. - Rosario Dawson
Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also. - Billy Wilder