Glaringly Absent Quotes & Sayings

One of the best partners in writing?
A cat! — Primadonna Angela

I think there's too much mixing fashion and intellect. Fashion ultimately is designed to cover the human body, to give you joy, to make you feel better. I don't think it has to have a great intellectual meaning. — Suzy Menkes

Never look back's a good motto in our line of business. Too many bloody ghosts following. — Jaime Delano

I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks. — Cheryl Rainfield

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask? — Rickie Lee Jones

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

Don't look - you might see. Don't listen - you might hear. Don't think - you might learn. Don't make a decision - you might be wrong. Don't walk - you might stumble. Don't run - you might fall. Don't live - you might die. I would like to add one more thought to this depressing list: Don't change - you might grow. — John C. Maxwell

We trifle with France and labour with Germany, we sentimentalize over Italy and ecstacise over Spain- but England we love. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

As she left my room I knew I should shut up. But you know when you should shut up because you really should just shut up ... but you keep on and on anyway? Well, I had that. — Louise Rennison

It is like operating a new washing machine or videodisc player, all lights and buttons. You have to know how to operate it before you can understand the instruction booklet (it was written by someone who already knew). — J.-C. Spender

It does no good to believe in what does not exist to the point one cannot focus on what is real. That would be the greatest tragedy of any 'conspiracy.' — John Ridley

Sometimes less is more. — Eva Pohler

And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth. — C.S. Lewis

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason. — Robert South