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

  Rosario Dawson

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Side, Obvious

• I apologize for being obvious, but every time I watch the curtain come down on even a halfway decent production of a Shakespeare play I feel a little sorrowful that I’ll never know the man, or any man of such warm intelligence.

  Ian McEwan

  Topics in Intelligence

  Tags in Apologize, Decent, Obvious

• If I do something, it’s always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something, Obvious

• In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Obvious

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious

• I’m not Tom Cruise. Very few British actors are. If you look at the body of work I’ve done it’s pretty obvious I’m not going to make a ‘Mission: Impossible.’

  Jude Law

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious, Impossible

• One layer was certainly 17th century. The 18th century in him is obvious. There was the 19th century, and a large slice, of course, of the 20th century; and another, curious layer which may possibly have been the 21st.

  Clement Attlee

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Certainly, Possibly, Obvious

• When you meet the love of your life, it’s just obvious and natural and easier.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Easier, Obvious

• It’s obvious you shouldn’t steal, kill or be cruel.

  Black Francis

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious, Kill, Cruel

• Anybody can be specific and obvious. That’s always been the easy way. It’s not that it’s so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it’s just that there’s nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

  Bob Dylan

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious, Absolutely

• I see no reason for recording the obvious.

  Edward Weston

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Recording, Obvious

• It’s obvious that they’re going to want Ali’s daughter and Frazier’s daughter to fight it out.

  Robert Goulet

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Fight, Daughter, Obvious

• It was easy to run around barefoot in oblivion in Costa Rica. But once I gave birth to my child, I didn’t want to be oblivious to the obvious.

  Carolyn Murphy

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Child, Obvious

• To spell out the obvious is often to call it in question.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious, Question

• “Obvious” is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

  Eric Temple Bell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious, Dangerous, Word, Mathematics

• Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Art

  Tags in Arcane, Concealed, Obvious, Toward, Well-Known, Step

• It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.

  T. S. Eliot

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious, Passion, Explain, Person

• One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

  Randall Jarrell

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious, Facts, Like, Forgotten

• The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

  Khalil Gibran

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Obvious, Seen, Until, Simply

• No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Topics in Power, Wisdom

  Tags in Obvious, Another, Answer