Vacuums Quotations

English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.

Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

There are a lot of ways to be expressive in life, but I wasn't good at some of them. Music, for instance. I was a distinct failure with the cello. Eventually, my parents sold the cello and bought a vacuum cleaner. The sound in our home improved.

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

I must have something to engross my thoughts, some object in life which will fill this vacuum, and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You’re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.

Until democracy in effective enthusiastic action fills the vacuum created by the power of modern inventions, we may expect the fascists to increase in power after the war both in the United States and in the world.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.

In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

The standing fields [ready to harvest]were the legions who hadn't filled their God-vacuum with the One who was born to fill it; the standing fields were those who waited for someone to reach out and speak the truth, and tell them how they might be saved.

As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.

I still don't think like that. Because of Benazir, nobody else [in her party] was thinking about leadership. This position comes about only because of the vacuum that was created with her death.

You have to be very closely linked to the beliefs of the people. This is the core issue. When there is divergence between your policy and the people's beliefs and interests, you will have this vacuum that creates disturbance.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.

One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.

A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

There's nothing that you like in this world that wasn't influenced by a bunch of key things; nothing came completely clean out of a vacuum.

Deep down the consciousness of mankind is one. This is a virtual certainty because even in the vacuum matter is one; and if we don't see this, it's because we are blinding ourselves to it.

My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."

I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum...

Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.

Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

You lived and died alone, especially in fighters. Fighters. Somehow, despite everything, that word had not become sterile. You slipped into the hollow cockpit and strapped and plugged yourself into the machine. The canopy ground shut and sealed you off. Your oxygen, your very breath, you carried into the chilled vacuum, in a steel bottle.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

In her abhorrrence of a vacuum, Nature, for the furtherance of her favorite hobby, has often to resort to strange devices. If she could but understand that vacuity is sometimes better than superfluity!

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

The more you want it [romantic relationship], the more you are looking for it, the more you repel it for whatever reason. I don't know why. If you kind of create this vacuum, let life take its course, then you tend to free yourself up for the unexpected.

Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

Commencement oratory must eschew anything that smacks of partisan politics, political preference, sex, religion or unduly firm opinion. Nonetheless, there must be a speech: Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.

When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due to some nature hindering species, and resisting it, but because of the lack of a nature suitable for the multiplication of species; for species is a natural thing, and therefore needs a natural medium; but in a vacuum nature does not exist.

Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose it. Your container will overflow and the excess money will spill out all over the place. You simply cannot have more money than the container. Therefore you must grow to be a big container so you cannot only hold more wealth but also attract more wealth. The universe abhors a vacuum and if you have a very large money container, it will rush in to fill the space.

When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.

There is a woman who swam around Manhattan, and I asked her, why? She said, it hadn't ever been done before. Well, she didn't have to do that. If she wanted to something no one had ever done before, all she had to do was vacuum my apartment.

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

Art is not created in a vacuum. That experience is something to be shared with a group of people, and to be moved in that way.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.

Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.

Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services.

The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

There is no flaw or vacuum in the amount of the truth - but all is truth without exception; And henceforth I will go celebrate any thing I see or am, And sing and laugh and deny nothing.