Top 31 Quotes About Stating The Obvious
#1. One of the things Ford Perfect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you've fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you alright?
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#3. People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do think the lesson there, and I guess stating the obvious, that oral argument can as often send a false signal as an accurate signal about where the thing is going.
Donald Verrilli Jr.
#4. He was low-key and stating the obvious, but it was necessary because Rand's dogma is predicated on ignoring the obvious.
Gary Weiss
#5. We've broken my bed," I said, stating the obvious.
"In battle, sacrifices must be made, pumpkin.
Kylie Scott
#6. So who's more adult- somebody who works like mad to avoid a problem or somebody who works like mad to solve it?
Janet Kagan
#9. Forgive me for stating the obvious, but the world is made up of all kinds of people.
Haruki Murakami
#10. See, this is just like I told you. Same thing I knew getting into this whole mess - love ends.
Jennifer Flackett
#11. He's a winner. There's no doubt about that, and it's stating the obvious to say that he's a tremendous talent.
(on David Beckham)
Kevin Keegan
#12. It was Nathaniel's boundless capacity for stating the obvious that made him so charmingly human.
Jonathan Stroud
#13. Blew it up his nose. That woman should have cards printed: 'Dr. Evan Wilson, Imaginative Medicine a Specialty.
Janet Kagan
#14. Who shot him? I asked.
The grey man scratched the back of his neck and said: Somebody with a gun.
Dashiell Hammett
#15. The TV people. I like calling them that. The TV people. And they have TVs for heads and their faces can change when the channels change.
Paul Tremblay
#16. Subtitled it 'Everything you Always Wanted to Know About Driving Out to Remote Locations in the Upper Midwest to Find your Childhood Imaginary Friend but Were Afraid to Ask.
Wendy McClure
#17. 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.
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#18. Keep in mind that in the whole long tradition of storytelling, from Greek myths through Shakespeare through King Arthur and Robin Hood, this whole notion that you can't tell stories about certain characters because someone else owns them is a very modern one - and to my mind, a very strange one.
Michael Montoure
#19. A collective spasm of carbophobia seized the country, ...
Michael Pollan
#20. The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.
Antonin Scalia
#21. Too bad we don't have a flashlight."
"Thanks for stating the obvious, Mr. Thomas," Minho replied.
James Dashner
#22. Truthfulness. He will never willingly tolerate an untruth, but will hate it as much as he loves truth ... And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth?
Plato
#23. I'm not one of those people who can cry on cue. If I have to cry in an audition, I'm like, 'Okay, let me see what I can do.'
Melanie Lynskey
#24. It was such a strange sensation knowing that someone loved you enough to die for you but not enough to fall in love with you.
Fisher Amelie
#25. Gods can screw anything and anybody. For reference, see history.
Atticus O'Sullivan
Kevin Hearne
#26. When I bore you, just tell me to shut up, I won't be offended.'
'I like to listen,' Stu said.
'Then you are one of God's chosen. Let's go.
Stephen King
#28. Next time I'll pat you on the freaking back for stating the obvious.
James Dashner
#29. With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'
John Ridley
#30. I Keep a Wholesome Table."
Manannan Mac Lir
Kevin Hearne
#31. Are you prepared to die?"
"I am half dead already," Nimit said as if stating the obvious.
Haruki Murakami
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