Glaringly Absent Quotes

#1. they read Hurston not only for the spiritual kinship inherent in such relations but because she used black vernacular speech and rituals, in ways Subtle and various, to chart the coming to consciousness of black women, so glaringly absent in other black fiction.

Zora Neale Hurston

#2. [Bacteria] have an incredibly complicated chemical lexicon that ... allows bacteria to be multicellular. In the spirit of TED they're doing things together because it makes a difference.

Bonnie Bassler

#3. The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe.

Sheldon Whitehouse

#4. In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.

Elie Metchnikoff

#5. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that.

Arthur Miller

#6. The experience of light in a very pure form always creates happiness. The experience of desire and aversion tends to create unhappiness.

Frederick Lenz

#7. The question tumbles out of my mouth like a smooth stone in a stream, its edges worn clean by how often I roll it around in my head.

Sara Raasch

#8. There are some individuals who look at graphic novels as 'canon,' and they cannot change in any way, shape or form, and that's what makes them in some ways good fans.

John Ridley

#9. Did you like my tribute to the town?"

"I did, but why a swordfish?"

"The day you pelted me in the face with a swordfish funnel cake, and by the way--what the fuck--was when my admiration for you turned into something more.

L.A. Fiore