Patently Quotes

Whilst I agree that dialogue and discussion between members is important, and that members have a vested interest in what's going on in the various teams, I would have thought that it was patently obvious that carrying out this dialogue on such an open forum is naive in the extreme, potentially harmful and reflects badly on the whole club. - Grant Wilson

What strikes some people as 'indecent' or 'patently offensive' may look very different to other people in another part of the country. - Patrick Leahy

What Microsoft is doing is patently illegal. Think about it. If you want to build computers, you've got to ask Bill's permission... If Bill wanted to triple the price on Windows, what would you do? You'd pay; you wouldn't have any choice. - Larry Ellison

We ranked the ones we believe were the most ridiculous, Either because they were factually inaccurate, because they reported the patently absurd or because we believe they are simply offensive to the sensibilities. - Britney Spears

Unfortunately, as our lawsuit shows today, those statements are patently false. - Anthony D. Romero

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous. - Elmer Bernstein

This is not about a lack of personal responsibility. To create a condition that promotes a disease and then blame those who have it is just patently unfair. - Kelly Brownell

Still, most of those effects occur in the context of harmless play and it is patently obvious that children are not normally turned into aggressive little monsters by TV or video games, since most children do not become aggressive little monsters. - Hugh Mackay

Some have said that nominees who do not spill their guts about whatever a senator wants to know are hiding something from the American people... Some compare a nominee's refusal to violate his judicial oath or abandon judicial ethics to taking the Fifth Amendment. These might be catchy sound bites, but they are patently false. - Orrin Hatch