Perhaps not as badly applied and not as obvious, but for thousands of years, people have worn makeup on stage. – Robert Smith
It is perfectly obvious that no one nor any single country can save the world from the horrors of tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and winged influenza. – Richard Reeves
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. – Randall Jarrell
It’s like our relationship is always about the other side that isn’t the obvious side. – Rosario Dawson
How do we get more politicians to move from ‘fixing’ the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public’s dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary. – Raghuram Rajan
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. – Pat Boone
Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite of the fact that he conducted numerous vertigo experiments with human subjects and made frequent use of animal experiments. – Robert Barany
It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink. – Roberto Civita
On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself. – Pierre Salinger
Once food gets into our fridges, larders and kitchens, ensuring that it gets used up before going off seems like an obvious thing to do – but it’s alarming how many millions of tonnes are simply chucked because we don’t keep track of the food we’ve spent our money on. – Tristram Stuart
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. – William Kingdon Clifford
I think it’s obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been. – Steve Earle
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. – Yoshio Taniguchi
I refused David Letterman’s proposal of marriage for obvious reasons, but thanks for asking. – Teri Garr
Your experience is a dream; so is my experience. This stuff about how the frontal cortex is repressed during dreaming, lucid dreaming presents an obvious contradiction to it. The only difference is sensory input. – Stephen LaBerge
It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn’t include David Mitchell. ‘Cloud Atlas’ is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell’s slightly lesser known debut, ‘Ghostwritten.’ – Susan Barker
Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It’s a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it. – Thandie Newton
