The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

- Andy Summers

Who knew we had all this O.C.D. in the world? Well actually, I suppose it's pretty obvious. It explains Sudoku, doesn't it?

- Bruce Vilanch

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

- Bill Veeck

I also tried to avoid doing obvious dance records.

- Boy George

Anybody can be specific and obvious. That's always been the easy way. It's not that it's so difficult to be unspecific and less obvious; it's just that there's nothing, absolutely nothing, to be specific and obvious about.

- Bob Dylan

Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also.

- Billy Wilder

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

- Bill Maher

An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.

- Alfred A. Knopf

Readers are made by readers - it is so obvious it is almost banal to say it.

- Aidan Chambers

A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.

- Anita Brookner

It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious.

- Alfred North Whitehead

It is obvious that taking the country from a state of war to being a lawful state won't be easy.

- Ahmed Ben Bella

I don't have to worry about the obvious things like money.

- Abbey Clancy

When you make a movie, you know you're making a long-form thing, so the visuals are different than for a video where it has to be more obvious or in your face, I think, a little bit.

- Anton Corbijn

I have never understood models. I find it really hard to find beauty in that or to discover beauty because the beauty was so obvious.

- Anton Corbijn

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

- Alfred Korzybski

My issue with the state of women became incredibly stimulated when I was visiting developing countries and it became obvious that women bore the brunt of so many things in society.

- Annie Lennox

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.

- Annie Leibovitz

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

- Andre Gide

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

- Alfred North Whitehead