Apparent Quotations

I'm a big cat person. It's one of those things that's like, everybody that knows me thinks it's so weirdly apparent and obvious.

It was immediately apparent that it was full of tricky ingredients to balance. In fact, I found it very intriguing. What held me back from saying yes to the producer was that I wasn't sure who could play Truman.

I thought this must be obvious to everyone else, as it seemed obvious to me; and that, if once it became apparent that we were on the edge, all the Great Powers would call a halt and recoil from the abyss.

When I first started drumming, when I was 14 or 15, I started writing songs. I wrote for a couple of years, but when we started 'Radiohead' it became very apparent quite quickly that I just wanted to concentrate on the drumming.

Apparent contradictions between religion and science often have been the basis of bitter controversy. Such differences are to be expected as long as human understanding remains provisional and fragmentary.

One of my great joys in life is being a pilot. There is a great sense of freedom in soaring through the sky. You get a different perspective up there. Seeing things that aren't so apparent from the ground.

I was a drama major also so it's cool to cuss for meaning, but for no apparent reason, no.

Just as radical heirs apparent are said to lay aside all inconvenient revolutionary opinions when they come to the throne, it was believed that Mr. Mill in Parliament would be an entirely different person from Mr. Mill in his study.

The Czech Republic, severed from its old Slovak half, sits in apparent landlocked contentment, inside the European Union but outside the troubled Euro Zone, set into the new Continental mosaic like one of the small sturdy paving stones, just a few inches square, that form the sidewalks under the visitor's ambling feet.

The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

Not only the style, but the way in which you don't exactly know what on earth has happened or is happening till about page two hundred - then it all becomes apparent in a blinding flash.

Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances.

We had not seen any natives for many days, but a few passed the camp on the opposite side of the river on the evening of the 25th. They would not, however, come to us; but fled into the interior in great apparent alarm.

That a great battle must soon be fought no one could doubt; but, in the apparent and perhaps real absence of plan on the part of Lee, it was impossible to foretell the precise scene of the encounter.

Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.

I think most of America is seeing the strings behind the campaign, and sees the crass political maneuvers that people are making. I mean, they're extremely apparent to me.

In an age of molecular genomics, it is ever more apparent that the fingerprints of evolution are pressed deeply into human DNA, just as they are into the genomes of every other organism. Biologists understand this, and so do students who study the science of life.

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.

Whenever you try to pick market tops and bottoms, you are making a prediction. Guessing what stock is going to outperform the market is forecasting, as is selling a stock for no apparent reason. Indeed, nearly all capital decisions made by most people are unconscious predictions.

We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise of Rome. And that is one of the problems, of course, in recounting her life. She's only ever apparent to us when there is a Roman in the room, or when her story intersects with the rise of Rome.

French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.

I've always said, since I got to know him and wrote about him, that he's the generation he least appeals to is his own and I think in many ways he was born middle-aged and that's become apparent in recent years.

The three most powerful and most apparent means used by Rome to retain her power over the minds of her votaries are Ignorance, Superstition, and Persecution.

I was surprised. He came in, he closed the door. ... It became pretty apparent once he started (talking) that he was heading down that path.

Like anything else in venture capital, you tend to allocate capital to those companies that can yield the highest returns. It would have been a mistake to invest substantially when it was apparent that we would not be receiving great returns.

One individual has been detained with no further information on that individual. But there are three apparent stabbing victims.

Most alarming is the apparent disregard for the potential impact on the French cinema industry, which will be hardest hit if this vote is upheld. We are hopeful as this bill works its way through the legislative process, those with an eye toward fostering French cinema will prevail.

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them, ... Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

Maybe a crisis isn't apparent to all of us, but it is to them. Decisions are perhaps unpopular, but they're the sentries to see what's coming before the rest of us.

No doubt, Pier 1 has a substantial brand equity, ... My suspicion is that Buffett sees through the current problems and has confidence in whatever new vision and strategy the company is working on that isn't apparent yet to outsiders.

Never has the need for an independent and thorough investigation into the government failures surrounding Hurricane Katrina been more plainly demonstrated than today. Two Republican investigations into Katrina have been completed. Two reports have been issued. It is now apparent that both have only scratched the surface. This administration has a lot to answer for, and America must learn the truth.

Obviously a plea bargain isnt an option, as long as there's nothing on the table to address the mental health issues that are so apparent with Andrea, ... Given that, the only other option is to go to trial. I dont believe there will be any meaningful negotiations in this matter short of going before a jury.

Obviously someone had the key to take out the urn and put in the potato chip can. One would think there would be checks and balances, but there was an apparent systems failure.

Now we're learning that the disconnect is more apparent than real.

Lay had some excellent attorneys working with him. It is apparent to me that Lay wanted to say what he wanted to say, regardless of who was doing the direct examination. I don't think that, ultimately, it would have made that much of a difference.

Mine was an apparent forward movement whereas Burley's was a continuous serpentine movement.

She has the most experience on our team, and she is pretty clear under pressure. It was more apparent that she knew what to do.

She does not entirely fit in. She comes out of the French tradition and a classical tradition that's apparent even in her Spanish Colonial revival work, which is not considered Arts and Crafts as such.

Silver Lake has been unquestionably the most successful of the current wave of tech buyout groups. They have shown that despite the apparent risks of these deals, considerable money can me made.

He is shocked over the extent of the leaks coming from apparent sources in law enforcement or the intelligence community. It is something we are all concerned about.

given the apparent lack of evidence and due process.

Given the Bank of England's apparent wariness about the accuracy of this initial (GDP) estimate, it is questionable whether it will have much of a bearing on policy decisions.

Given the dozens of channels now that are doing something called news, from the serious to the comic, this is the one that has stayed absolutely gimmick-free and, therefore, its uniqueness is more apparent now, I think, than it was when we started 30 years ago,

Given the Fed's apparent comfort with market expectations and press reports to the contrary, we reluctantly have to conclude that a rate hike is now the most likely outcome next week.

I can't say enough for what this program has done for those involved. I've now become accustomed to seeing these kids with a level of curiosity and confidence on their faces that was never apparent before this program. Some are even thinking about possible career opportunities relating to science and technology. What more could one want from a program like this?

I feel like it's always a good sign when you find yourself talking for hours about every topic ever. It's best when you just find the person interesting for no apparent reason.

I don't think anybody is surprised by this. Over the last few weeks I think its become apparent that the cellular phone industry is having a very strong quarter.

From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.

Given the overall positive sentiment and an apparent lack of interest to short the marker aggressively, we see further room on the upside.

Certainly, it was apparent to me that RLX was likely to exploit the confidential and proprietary information and trade secrets of Compaq that RLX acquired by its hiring of key Compaq personnel.

Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.

Basically if an idea sounds like a project that will help people with mental illness, and has no apparent downside, we find a way to accomplish our goal.

I have been astonished by the reactions and apparent shame of some of the U.S. television reporters who seemed overwhelmed to discover that there actually is poverty in America, ... They made me want to grab my television and shout 'Hello, dear reporter, yes, America actually does have poor and underprivileged people as well. Hello, yes, the president might well be slow to react but at times like this, that's all that an over-burdened, out-of-touch president can be.

I have asked (Killian) to attempt to resolve the apparent conflict in legal opinions at the Institute of Government. And if the disagreement cannot be resolved, if he could give us the basis of their legal conclusions so we could try to sort it out.

What is apparent is that Otis is staying open and our current Massachusetts Air National Guard is being kept at current levels.

What is even more troubling (than the apparent resistance by the landowner to build the bridge) is the fact that I understand that there has been some possible negotiations from Doug Haigh.

We're obviously looking into the circumstances surrounding this, what the prisoners' purpose was and what exactly happened. It was an apparent act of protest.

We may regard the solar systems as separate sponges, swimming in a World of Divine Spirit, and thus it will be apparent that in order to travel from one solar system to another, it would be necessary to be able to function consciously in the highest vehicle of man, the Divine Spirit.

He didn't have it in him today, and you know I don't see any apparent reason.

He could have been the heir apparent to (Michael Jordan) and maybe won as many championships. He may still win a championship or two, but the boyish hero image has been replaced by that of a callous gun for hire.

His originality was apparent from the word go. He deployed an intellectual rigour that turned his droll imagery into icons of our time.

He said he was hit in the arm with the hammer, but there were no apparent injuries, ... However, there was a strong scent of alcohol.

Having five guys in double figures is the kind of balance I like to see. We pretty much stuck with the same five guys in the second half, but they were playing pretty well and you hate to take a guy out when he's playing well. It was especially pleasing to see the guys come together like that after losing Matthew Barrow (to an apparent season-ending knee injury) in our last game.

Within the next year we'll probably decide whether we're renovating the Assembly Hall or building a new facility. If we're renovating, there are a lot of things we could do to tie the two areas together. Maybe it's a new ticket office or a team store or a place for fund-raising gatherings before games that could be used for each place. Anything is possible, but it became apparent to us we needed to take a step back and figure out what we want to do.

Joe was the one who had the most apparent skills in dealing with local people and being the guy that knows how to talk to people on the land. He's just a heck of a nice guy with plenty of common sense. He's plain spoken and straight-up honest and that's what we needed.

My wife, Jan, and I are shocked by the apparent triple homicide that took place on our ranch in Hondo, New Mexico, sometime over the Fourth of July weekend while we were away in Santa Fe,

My situation at Chelsea became tense because I was regularly dropped from the team without apparent reason.

Terrorism gravely threatens international peace and security, and as a solution, the power and apparent finality of force are seductive.

Looking ahead, this supports our view that, despite the apparent rebound in retail sales over the Christmas period, broader consumer spending will remain soft.

Some of those numbers are low because we have not historically asked the gang question. But even so, it was apparent in 2005 that these groups of people were becoming increasingly violent.

People who receive this viral email won't necessarily believe that it was intended for them or their company, of course, but they may wish to advise the apparent sender that they have sent the message to the wrong person. If anyone opens the attached file, however, they risk infecting their computer and passing on the pox to others.

suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego.

suffering an apparent attack of arrogance and ego. He is no longer willing to acknowledge the contributions of his former partners...

People have been shocked. But we've received a lot of positive reactions. And this has also been apparent in the donations.

Such has been the rise in interest in Japan of late that the market's apparent refusal to brood over potential terrorist attacks is perhaps wholly unsurprising. Foreign investors have positively reassessed Japan's economic and political outlook and have laid their bets accordingly.

People are buying gold because it is now apparent that we are going to see massive inflation. Gold is the best hedge for inflation.

I think last year the industry said, 'Trust us, we're going to do the right thing,' ... But it became pretty apparent that, in fact, the industry was not honest.

I think the change is significant -- and troubling. For one thing, it is in addition to the other termination payments, which the first one was not. And it is larger, for no apparent reason. Are they expecting a change of control?

It is more than apparent that the government somehow blames and refuses to properly endorse Mr. Fortier due to the government's lack of success across the board in the second bombing trial against Terry Nichols.

It is more than apparent to me that the White House has applied heavy pressure in recent days, in recent weeks, to prevent the committee from doing its job.

It is apparent from the January MLS (multiple listing service) results that we started the same way we finished 2005.

It is apparent that few used pumping units are available in the oil patch. This leads to a pumping unit demand that outstrips that expected from the analysis of rig counts and wells completed.

it is apparent that the oil companies have taken advantage of the trust of the American people.

It is apparent that they never had any intention of applying filters, the bare minimum they needed to continue to operate the system. Their response is an insult to the court, the public and all artists whose work is being illegally traded on the system.

It is apparent that Toyobo was duped by Second Chance. We were shocked by the level of Second Chance's deception when their behavior was finally uncovered because of documents that surfaced in litigation and through investigation.

It is apparent to the Texas Transportation Commission that neither the federal government nor the state government has the resources to pay for I-69.

Over the past year there has arisen an apparent absence of fear of punishment in regards to the arbitrary divulging of classified information.

Our view on the economy for 2006 has not changed, particularly based on apparent strength in the manufacturing sector. We are taking steps to adjust our cost base as necessary and address specific customer situations.

On the surface, the only apparent antitrust problem appears to be the fact that AOL and Time Warner's Roadrunner might be seen as being competing Internet services. But Roadrunner is a pipsqueak of a player compared to AOL's service. It's conceivable they could force the divestiture of Roadrunner. But that's not a big deal.

Our goal is to keep the water in the pipes. It's apparent this system has paid for itself.

Our tariff system would look to benchmark the cost of services, so that cost differences would be apparent between boards and so that it could be used in cross-border flows of patients. This will encourage boards to deliver services more efficiently, freeing up more funds for front-line healthcare.

It has become apparent that U.S. companies are deciding that the best way to keep profits in line is to cut jobs at the first sign of weakness in any of their product lines.

It has become apparent to Gary and me ... that we have divergent management styles and our business views differ. I respect him for his decision and I wish him every success in his future endeavors.

It has become more apparent to us over the past seven months, as each new embarrassment is plastered across newspapers, that individuals within the university appear to have a greater interest in doing what is in the best interest of the Office of the President, rather than what is in the best interests of its students, its faculty or California's taxpayers.

It has become starkly apparent to me that we lack any sort of strategic foreign policy view, and when I say 'we,' I mean the country in general, but in particular, the Republican Party.

I think retail is going to be a very tough place to make money. What's worrying the market now is -- if the Fed is successful in slowing the economy, what does it mean for profits going forward? And that is apparent - that's more clearly an issue in retail than anyplace else. But it is an issue in the market itself that you're going into a period here where profit growth may decelerate; in fact, could flatten out as you have volume gains decelerate in a slowing economy, but cost increases embedded in from the period when you had a strong economy; and that's not exactly a great prescription for profits, and I think that's troubling the stock market,

I wonder if they ever are. I thought they might let that go this year, but it didn't seem apparent at all. Right away, he got booed. He just may be one of those guys that has to carry that for a year or two until another group comes along that gives him a break.

Katie called a real good game; she was the leader, she was the captain. The home run, that set the tone, and it was apparent that she was ready for the game. She had her focus all game.

It is now apparent that the organizing efforts have reached beyond the Hispanic community and are now being supported by different communities such as the Anglo community, the African American community, the Asian community.

It is already apparent that the current system is proving unwieldy and liable to present MPs with a potentially unsuitable leader while the changes under discussion will severely restrict democracy within the party - clearly an undesirable move for a modern twenty-first century party,