Quoting The Obvious Quotes

#1. I seem to be quite drawn to the medieval, magical fantasies, as it were.

Sean Bean

#2. I was surprised, therefore, when

Emily Lloyd

#3. Yes, there is something uncanny, demonic and fascinating in her.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Sink twice before you strike out for land.

Mary Butts

#5. God can bring good out of everything; both the open doors and the closed doors.

Jamie Larbi

#6. Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa.

Edward Said

#7. I sort of feel like people are not that honest about their own parenting. Take any teenage household; tell me there is not yelling and conflict.

Amy Chua

#8. I think the trick is knowing where you're supposed to be, and lettig go of everything else long enough to be there.

Todd Johnson

#9. Why do Greeks always open restaurants that fail?

George Chakiris

#10. Kagan's law of first contact,'You'll surprise you more than they will.

Janet Kagan

#11. Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Winston Churchill

#12. At one time I had given much thought to why men were so very rarely capable of living for an ideal. Now I saw that many, no, all men were capable of dying for one.

Hermann Hesse

#13. Businesses should absolutely set aside funding in their budgets for security consultants. Unless there is an expert on staff, and there usually is not, it needs to be outsourced.

Kevin Mitnick

#14. I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Courteney Cox

#15. Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.

T. E. Hulme

#16. Thus it should appear to everyone that the best pastime of all is to be often in good company, far from unworthy men and from unworthy activities from which no good can come.

Geoffroi De Charny