Obvious

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

- George Orwell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Eric Hoffer Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There are a couple of trends building this year. The most obvious one in the consumer category is DVD players, which are affordable to more people now.

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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 Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

In the absence of dogs and hoses there is no immediate, obvious enemy before us, so it's harder to mobilize a sense of outrage, ... Rosa Parks did not just sit down on her own initiative. She was part of a movement.

- Barack Obama Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Obviously, we have no leader on the floor. That is obvious if you watch us. I don't think they trust me. My feeling is that most of them think I'm over the hill. Maybe I'm just exaggerating.

- Dick Bennett Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The fact that Stravinsky used the classics as a major influence is obvious. What is interesting is how he used them, how he turned Bach into Stravinsky.

- Lukas Foss Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

By the time it became obvious that they were in the fix they were in, there were a lot of other problems, too.

- Bill Clinton Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

As a result of that, every now and then the market needs to remind investors that Wall Street is not a one way street, and things don't last forever and things don't go up forever. It is quite obvious that the Nasdaq was due for a correction.

- Peter Cardillo Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

Again, I don't want to say. You may think there's an obvious thing to read into, and you may be right, but I don't want to say what our strategy is going to be.

- Marv Levy Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

The goal, I submit, is obvious subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests.

- Breyten Breytenbach Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.

- Eric Temple Bell Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's obvious the market isn't buying into a weak U.S. economy story despite the unexpected softness in Friday's data.

- Bob Lynch Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I've never met a designer who thought more like an animator than Carlos. He's always thinking not just 'how will this look,' but 'how will it move.' That may seem like the obvious aim of designing for animation, but very few people have that gift.

- Jeffrey Katzenberg Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

They haven't come out and said what they are going to do. But it's obvious and everyone knows I'm not happy not playing. Something has to give because I'm not going to sit here for another year and not play and not be active. I've expressed my part to Angelo, and he said he completely understood.

- Michael Haynes Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There's been no indication that there is any damage in there that would impact him moving forward. But they're going to do some tests and we'll get a better idea this week exactly what his status is. I think as soon as he came out of last night's ballgame it was pretty ominous and pretty obvious that he wasn't going to be able to help us in this series.

- Mike Scioscia Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

While the economic data have been all over the place in recent weeks, there are no obvious signs that the economy is cracking in the face of record energy prices. Indeed, the export and production data have been surprisingly perky.

- Douglas Porter Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

I think it's obvious. I don't like coming out at the beginning of the spring and saying it. I'd like to have Barry be the Opening Day starter.

- Ken Macha Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.

- Rudy Rucker Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

For the obvious reason, nobody knew what impact that would have on the theatre and at that point a lot of productions had not opened.

- Andrew Lloyd Webber Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

If our goal is to maximize population it is obvious what we must do We must make the work calories per person approach as close to zero as possible.

- Garrett Hardin Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

It is obvious that anything a scientist discovers or invents is based on previous discoveries and inventions. The same applies to the arts.

- Lukas Foss Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.

- Arthur Conan Doyle Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

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

- Lee Child Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

- Mary A. Ward Visit FamousQuotes.com for more inspirational quotes