Susan Orlean

There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

American Journalist

Beth Ostrosky Stern

In every single one of my purses, even my little satin clutch and my tiny Chanel bag, I always carry a lint roller. I keep them in every drawer, in every desk and nightstand. I just buy those at the dollar store in bulk.

American Actress

Steven Wright

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.

American Comedian

Regina Brett

Star Trek' never grabbed me. Every time I hear about Klingons, I think of those little lint balls that stick to your clothes in the dryer.

O. Henry

She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).

American Writer

Courteney Cox

I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

We keep our house very clean. Lint rollers and vacuum cleaners.

Peyton List

Lint is easy to overlook until it accumulates.

Commonly Missed

Lint is often mentioned when talking about cleaning clothes or laundry.

Cleaning Reference

'Lint' is casual, used mostly in day-to-day conversation.

Informal Speech

'Lint' in computing specifically refers to a tool, not to fluff.

Technical Tool

Only used in the context of software development and coding.

Development Usage

In computing, 'lint' implies the detection and elimination of errors or bugs.

Error Detection

The medical 'lint' is an outdated term but shows up in historical contexts.

Historical Use

Modern medical language doesn't commonly use 'lint'; contemporary alternatives are preferred.

Antiquated Term

You might encounter 'lint' in older literature describing medical care.

Literary References

 Or is it something absolutely trivial, like a piece of lint, or a piece of chalk, or a -- I don't want to point to that, but -- or a shoe, or something like that? OK? Which you can completely ignore. So if the amygdala is excited, and this is something important, the messages then cascade into the autonomic nervous system.

3 clues to understanding...

 and dust and I remembered this this trick that I learned from a scientist at the USDA and she said take an eyelash glue it to the end of any little toothpick safety pin it's stiff enough you can kind of comb its hairs and get the little bits of lint and dust and

Photographing the Real...

 Self-driving machines carefully harvest these puffs, an industrial cotton gin mechanically separates the fluffy bolls from the seeds, and the cotton lint is pressed into 225-kilogram bales.

The life cycle of a...

 then slowly like a pocket mine you gathered lint for company hydrogen helium other types of gas join you unsatisfied you asked for more a flock enticed and hoarded moored up locked