Unobvious Quotes & Sayings

I'm not a creeper. I'm just a guy looking for a king. — Maggie Stiefvater

Among the hundreds of so-called "UFO reports" each year, a sizable fraction of those clearly observed by reputable witnesses remain unexplained-and difficult to explain in conventional terms. There is a modicum of physical evidence, radar cases, residual effects, and some films-and photographs in support of the unexplained cases. Collectively, these cases constitute a genuine scientific mystery, badly in need of well-supported, systematic investigation. — Richard Hall

Poems' deep work is a matter of language, but also a matter of life. One part of that work is to draw into our awareness and into language itself the unobvious and the unexpected. — Jane Hirshfield

The scientist states that pressure is exerted outwards in all directions equally, whereas natural pressure (e.g. air pressure) is exerted inwards from all directions equally. — Viktor Schauberger

My firm has 25,000 high-net-worth clients. A typical account would be that of a couple aged 65 and 60 who need their money to last the rest of their lives, 25 to 35 years. — Kenneth Fisher

Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope. — Abraham Lincoln

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art. — Peter H. Reynolds

He no longer had an accurate visual memory of the size of the moon in the sky, and so he could not estimate how many times larger the cloud was. — Neal Stephenson

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation. — Hunter S. Thompson

Because in the end, Good and Evil are two sides of the same story: every Good comes from Evil and every Evil from Good. Just — Soman Chainani

When you're a sledgehammer, you don't need to be unobvious. You just need one good hit. — Stylo Fantome

Sometimes I think that creativity is a matter of seeing, or stumbling over, unobvious similarities between things - like composing a fresh metaphor, but on a more complex scale. One night in Hiroshima it occurred to me that the moon behind a certain cloud formation looked very like a painkiller dissolving in a glass of water. I didn't work toward that simile, it was simply there: I was mugged, as it were, by the similarity between these two very different things. Literary composition can be a similar process. The writer's real world and the writer's fictional world are compared, and these comparisons turned into text. But other times literary composition can be a plain old slog, and nothing to do with zones or inspiration. It's world making and the peopling of those worlds, complete with time lines and heartache. — David Mitchell

Somewtimes I wrote random stuff in the middle of my essays, just to see if my teachers would say anything. No one ever did. — Kami Garcia