Whether the story reflects the facts is obviously a different matter.
~By Kenneth Starr ~
Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
~By Bobby McFerrin ~
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
~By Toni Morrison ~
My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work.
~By Jonathan Lethem ~
It is obvious that the greatest and most important service that is required of our agriculture under existing conditions is an enlarged production of the staple food crops.
~By David F. Houston ~
Celebrity - I don't even know what that means. Obviously it's the same basic word as celebration, but I don't know what's being celebrated.
~By James Woods ~
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.
~By Cynthia Ozick ~
So with the end of the Cold War, it became increasingly obvious that there was no basis upon which any decision was being made, not in the White House, and certainly because of that, not in the Congress.
~By Malcolm Wallop ~
Obviously, I'm not a trained actress, and right now I'll come out and say I'm glad I'm not.
~By Jenny McCarthy ~
Obviously Victoria and Mel B have become mothers and there is a part of me that wants to be a mum.
~By Geri Halliwell ~
These kids understood what is not immediately obvious; that they were going to pay the bills for tax cuts that had been passed today or in the last 4 years, and for the war in Iraq, because essentially we are borrowing money to do those things.
~By Tom Allen ~
Now, the impact on export markets - we export about 10 percent of what we produce, so obviously that will probably have some impact on the market. At this point it's too early to determine how much.
~By Ann Veneman ~
We've had a problem finding a vocalist. We have not been lucky yet to find the one. I think the problem is that the three of us have such a pedigree of vocalist, that if we come out with someone that's not good we'll obviously be slated!
~By Peter Hook ~
I know it's popular to say this because she's the woman of the moment, but Halle Berry. Not only does she have obvious audience appeal and star quality, but she's a damn good actress too.
~By Paul Kane ~
I feel a little schizophrenic because my life is so totally different from here, obviously. And the French values are so different from American values.
~By Adrian Lyne ~
Obviously the first roles that you're proud of are the ones that everybody else liked too.
~By Sam Waterston ~
It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed.
~By John McEnroe ~
You always love playing in finals at any tournament. The grand slams and stuff like that are obviously the priorities but any titles go on your record.
~By Lleyton Hewitt ~
It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
~By Kate Smith ~
Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.
~By Sergey Brin ~
I wish I could go to the school where my close friends go, but I obviously can't. The good thing is, they're really good about inviting me to all the football games and all that stuff. So I end up having an adopted team spirit for a school I don't go to.
~By David Gallagher ~
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of casualties in it on either side.
~By Douglas Haig ~
I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers.
~By Elaine Paige ~
It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.
~By Daniel Keys Moran ~
The rule which should guide us in such cases is simple and obvious enough: that the aggregate testimony of our neighbours is subject to the same conditions as the testimony of any one of them.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
I really liked them, not just Syd, but all of them. Roger was very important, I thought, his contribution. And so was Rick's organ playing. It was a good band. It became something else completely, obviously.
~By Robert Wyatt ~
Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
~By Ed Pastor ~
At the descriptive level, certainly, you would expect different cultures to develop different sorts of ethics and obviously they have; that doesn't mean that you can't think of overarching ethical principles you would want people to follow in all kinds of places.
~By Peter Singer ~
Obviously we will talk about doing everything we can to make our sport as safe as possible.
~By Troy Vincent ~
When they brought Roth back into the picture, obviously I didn't go along with that too well.
~By Sammy Hagar ~
Obviously, the most memorable has a lot to do with the time spent on the matter, and the Westerfield and Peterson cases are up at the top of the list.
~By Catherine Crier ~
I read a whole bunch of bits and pieces over the years, obviously from the fan magazines and the rest of the stuff, and I just wanted to give a little more insight into what's happening in my personal life.
~By Davy Jones ~
Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.
~By Celia Green ~
Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.
~By Arthur H. Sulzberger ~
Well I would say that we're regular people first of all and we're normal and it's obvious by some of the things that have happened just because our name is famous we're not immune to tragedy.
~By Brett Favre ~
The payment of taxes is an obvious and insistent duty, and its sanction is usually punitive.
~By Joseph McKenna ~
You know, you know, obviously, if my daughter's happy, you know, then I don't have any problem.
~By Priscilla Presley ~
Our nation's immigration policy has been of top concern in recent years, and for good reason. With between eight and twelve million illegal aliens in the United States, it is obviously a problem out of control.
~By Chris Cannon ~
Obviously, for me, story is first and foremost, even in the face of the attractive idea of having all the cast there, or having a great piece of talent come to it.
~By Vin Diesel ~
Obviously, if the commander makes certain decisions that the reporter thinks is inhibiting his right to report a legitimate story, he has to appeal to the commander's boss to get that changed.
~By Bob Schieffer ~
Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.
~By Chris Martin ~
A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.
~By Mark Kelly ~
If somebody plans to carry out a series of murders... then this is obviously an evil and pre-meditated attack and in that case, there could be a deterrent effect.
~By David Davis ~
Obviously we're a consumer nation and you have the power to influence these big corporations who are running the world right now through what you chose to, or not to, purchase.
~By Daryl Hannah ~
"Obvious" is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
~By E. T. Bell ~
All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.
~By Daniel Mainwaring ~
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
~By Renny Harlin ~
As seismologists gained more experience from earthquake records, it became obvious that the problem could not be reduced to a single peak acceleration. In fact, a full frequency of vibrations occurs.
~By Charles Francis Richter ~
You're only dealing with whatever you know, which is a very small part of it and later on it'll look like it has something to do with the period. Obviously, the artists have something to do with one another. They tend to set up certain common qualities among themselves.
~By Donald Judd ~
Well, I don't think prisons are the answer to everything, obviously.
~By Judge Mills Lane ~
An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons.
~By Major Taylor ~
We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.
~By Margaret Spellings ~
And of course there's so much music in and around our family. I had a piano during Christmas because it's obviously useful through the season. There are so many people, songwriters, who are around.
~By Ashley Judd ~
Magazines and advertising are flogging the idea that you have to keep changing things and get something new. I think that's balls - evil. But obviously that's your livelihood.
~By Robin Day ~
I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.
~By Jennifer Capriati ~
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.
~By Randall Jarrell ~
Previously people were treated anonymously particular on a drugs situation which is obviously highly emotive. They have been treated anonymously even after the verdict had been reached.
~By David Gill ~
But once you allow yourself to recognize necessity, you find two things: One you find your options so restricted that the only course of action is obvious, and, two, that a great sense of freedom comes with the decision.
~By Steven Brust ~
While there are no easy solutions to this problem, the Deficit Reduction Act gets us started in the right direction by beginning with the most obvious, commonsense reforms to save taxpayer dollars.
~By Jim Ryun ~
I do think the story in Halloween 5 is a bit stupid, and there's a lot more blood. They're obviously going to take the Halloween series in a different direction.
~By Donald Pleasence ~
If the withdrawal from Gaza goes badly, obviously, that will set us back.
~By Jane Harman ~
Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact; if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
I joined Walt Disney, went to work, December 2nd 1935, so obviously, I'm not too young!
~By Marc Davis ~
So my game is solid. So that obviously makes me feel confident, that like anybody else in this field, you name them, I feel like I've got the ability to win the golf tournament just as much as they have, and that's the way I'm going to take it.
~By Greg Norman ~
Well, I decided earlier this year that I would run for president, and obviously I needed something to run on.
~By Craig Armstrong ~
Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.
~By Ivan Pavlov ~
John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.
~By Wally Schirra ~
Anybody who says they are a good liar obviously is not, because any legitimately savvy liar would always insist they're honest about everything.
~By Chuck Klosterman ~
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
~By Wolcott Gibbs ~
Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.
~By Roma Downey ~
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
~By Jessica Lynch ~
It is obvious, moreover, that the formation of price in capitalist society must differ from the formation of price in social conditions based upon the simple production of commodities.
~By Rudolf Hiferding ~
There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.
~By Ann Beattie ~
It is quite true - in fact, obvious on the surface - that the vast majority of dramatic shows and comedies, as well, advocate a liberal and humanistic and relativistic lifestyle and concept.
~By Pat Boone ~
I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.
~By Portia de Rossi ~
I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.
~By Vanessa Carlton ~
Obviously, every child should be given the best possible opportunity to acquire literacy skills.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Familiar things happen, and mankind does not bother about them. It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
We obviously need more love in the world. And we obviously need more compassion and understanding. Our leaders need to really address these issues properly now.
~By Dave Davies ~
When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.
~By Yoshio Taniguchi ~
A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.
~By Bertrand Russell ~
When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
In my day, the players used to work their socks off. It's all changed now, obviously.
~By Gordon Smith ~
From the point of the view of the nation's power, it was obvious that while we were fighting the Sino-Japanese war, every effort was to be made to avoid adding to our enemies and opening additional fronts.
~By Hideki Tojo ~
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.
~By Rudy Rucker ~
Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
~By Arundhati Roy ~
Obviously, our children, who have been playing with their computers since the age of five or six, don't have quite the same brain as those who were brought up on wooden or metal toys, whose brains are certainly atrophied by comparison.
~By Claude Vorilhon ~
Obviously, there is diversity, but Europe is a union of diversity.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
Never assume the obvious is true.
~By William Safire ~
After all, you're not exactly a nation like all the other nations. You are unique, if only because you are such an ancient people, and because of the way you are spread all over the world and your obvious success in many fields.
~By Jean-Marie Le Pen ~
Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
~By Sachin Tendulkar ~
Without sounding too pretentious, I was sort of a slave to the narrative. When the narrative cracks in, I have to go where it takes me. I had to go to the Bohemian Grove. It was the obvious end to the book.
~By Jon Ronson ~
When he asked me, with obvious self-satisfaction, what I thought of the scenario, I hardly knew how to answer. I asked if he had seen the play and was hardly surprised when he said no.
~By Elmer Rice ~
The Phil Spector that I would meet has always been a nice, quiet, little guy who's very serious about his work; obviously you can tell that because each and everything he's ever done has always been charted.
~By Ben E. King ~
Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
~By Alex Lifeson ~
Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.
~By Jody Watley ~
With 3 percent of the world's resources and 25 percent of the world's demand, it is pretty obvious this country cannot drill its way to energy security.
~By Lois Capps ~
I do have a family, and obviously I spend as much time as I can with them. Though even when I'm with my family, my mind tends to drift toward baseball.
~By Bill James ~
At the same time, it is obvious that clinicians in Haiti are faced with different, and, in fact, greater, challenges when attempting to treat complications of HIV disease.
~By Paul Farmer ~
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