Obvious Quotes - Page 5

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.

The one obvious thing is that the devices are so good now that you can also see their limitations extremely well.

Some of the best opportunities in the world are the most obvious ones.

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

You have a firm grasp of the obvious.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

So I went to Miami in '74 with my family and while I was there it became obvious that we needed money and we needed to do something, because my family, we left without anything really, and we didn't have any money to begin with.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift.

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

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

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.

Be nice to each other. Not a lot, but seems like the most obvious thing.

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

People used to say obvious things ironically or as a form of understatement, but in the last few decades they seem to say it with a sense of discovery, and it worries me.

Thank you, Captain Obvious." "I'm on the Senate," he reminded me. "It's Lord Obvious.

To say that we're doomed is just an obvious remark.

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

Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.

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

From this new and intimate perspective, she learned a simple, obvious thing she had always known, and everyone knew; that a person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn, not easily mended.

The obvious is better than obvious avoidance of it.

Jealousy ... is the most obvious sign of impotency.

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

It is bad to want something that not even God could attain, especially when the impossibility becomes obvious.