#obvious

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

#child #facts #forgotten #grown-ups #like

I remember one of my last shows, the Final Jeopardy! clue was something like 'These two boys' names are top 10 boys' names in the U.S., they both end with the same letter, and they're both names of Jesus' apostles.' Now, obviously that's not a knowable fact. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#both #clue #end #fact #final

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. ↗

— June Jordan

#by the time #extremely #i #important #language

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

And people are always saying he deceptively quick, deceptively athletic, and I don't know if that's just because I'm Asian or what it is, but obviously there's going to be stereotypes that you have to fight. ↗

— Jeremy Lin

#asian #athletic #because #deceptively #fight

Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich. ↗

— Paul Merton

#am #because #call #i #myself

The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#eventually #longer #obscure #obvious #see

I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references. ↗

— Joanna Newsom

#different #different thing #folk #folk music #i

It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product. ↗

— Andrew Oliver

#complemented #continuously #development #finished #finished product

The United States, and the president's made this clear, does not want Iran to develop a nuclear weapon. That's a red line for us. And it's a red line obviously for the Israelis so we share a common goal here. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#common #common goal #develop #does #goal