Vacuums famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
-- Ace Frehley -
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.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
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.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
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.
-- Andrew Stanton -
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.
-- Asif Ali Zardari -
We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
-- Asne Seierstad -
Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.
-- Billy Graham -
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
-- Blaise Pascal -
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
-- Boris Johnson -
Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
-- Brian May -
So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.
-- Cal Thomas -
Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You’re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.
-- Casey Kasem -
If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
-- Catherine Ponder -
Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I`m getting all these offers for work, I`m very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.
-- Christopher Lee -
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
-- Clare Boothe Luce -
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.
-- David Crystal -
It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.
-- David J. C. MacKay -
Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
-- David Levithan -
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.
-- Dennis Ritchie -
Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.
-- Doron Zeilberger -
By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
-- Edith Sitwell -
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.
-- Elizabeth Blackwell -
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!
-- Ellen Glasgow -
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
-- Elsa Maxwell -
Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..
-- Eric Shinseki -
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.
-- Evangelista Torricelli -
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
-- Gaston Bachelard -
If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.
-- Gene Simmons -
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.
-- George Eliot -
It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
-- George Henry Borrow -
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.
-- Hans-Hermann Hoppe -
...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature.
-- Harold Hotelling -
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
-- Harriet Van Horne -
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
-- Heinz Pagels -
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.
-- Henry A. Wallace -
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
-- Henry David Thoreau -
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.
-- Howard Stringer -
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.
-- Isaac Asimov -
Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
-- James Dyson -
Cordless vacuums are designed for quick jobs, but you need enough power to do the job; you don't want the power waning over time.
-- James Dyson -
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.
-- James Laughlin -
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.
-- James Salter -
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.
-- Jan Karon -
I am a musician. I didn't know I would be so when I was young. I do know that I have always heard music in my head that I wasn't hearing somewhere else and I 'needed' this music. And obedient to the laws of nature, I created into this vacuum.
-- Jane Siberry -
My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.
-- Jay Asher -
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
-- Jay Maisel -
There's only one thing that separates us from animals: We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.
-- Jeff Stilson -
When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."
-- Jennifer Aniston -
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
-- John Barrymore -
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
-- Jojo Moyes -
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.
-- Jostein Gaarder -
Gender Benders, Beware,â€Â in which she opined that “I don’t have a problem with men disposing of their genitals, but it does not make them women, in the same way that shoving a bit of vacuum hose down your 501s does not make you a man.
-- Julie Bindel -
Coitus can scarcely be said to take place in a vacuum; although of itself it appears a biological and physical activity, it is set so deeply within the larger context of human affairs that it serves as a charged microcosm of the variety of attitudes and values to which culture subscribes. Among other things, it may serve as a model of sexual politics on an individual or personal plane.
-- Kate Millett -
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.
-- Katherine Heigl -
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.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.
-- Lidiya Ginzburg -
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam -
-- Marisha Pessl -
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
-- Max Brooks -
None of us works entirely in a vacuum. Unless you are uncompromisingly working to please yourself you must think to whom your photography is directed and how is it likely to be received.
-- Michael Langford -
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
-- Naomi Klein -
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.
-- Peter Higgs -
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
-- Peter Maxwell Davies -
A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.
-- R. B. Kitaj -
A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.
-- Randall Dale Adams -
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.
-- Ray Stannard Baker -
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.
-- Rita Rudner -
The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.
-- Robert B. Laughlin -
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
-- Saul Alinsky -
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
-- Saul Bellow -
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.
-- Sophia Loren -
Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.
-- Thelma Ritter -
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.
-- Theodor Adorno -
God's call doesn't register in a vacuum; only a person who is committed to doing God's will can receive a call.
-- Thomas Hale -
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.
-- Vanna Bonta -
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.
-- Victor Hugo -
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
-- Viktor E. Frankl -
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry.
-- Wislawa Szymborska -
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
-- Xavier Rudd -
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
-- Zelda Fitzgerald -
My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.
-- Ayshay -
The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.
-- Colin Angle -
Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.
-- Jen Lilley -
Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.
-- John Katzenbach -
I like what's going on in Finland, with the rebirth of Beherit. I also like a band called Oranssi Pazuzu and a band called Spiderpact. There's a great scene there where they don't really care what's going on elsewhere and create music in their own vacuum.
-- Mat McNerney -
There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank.
-- Mike Mullane -
You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the wall and when you're done, you put the toilet paper in there and seal that up.
-- Mike Mullane -
I operate in such a vacuum. I write by myself, it's a very solitary experience, and I'm not used to, I've never had a label or anyone to say, "We wanna hear a single, we gotta come back and retool some of these songs until they're more catchy."
-- Nicholas Thorburn -
Manicheanism is like a vacuum, it is an either or situation that curtails or destroys the development of liberatory thought.
-- Nigel Gibson -
It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.
-- Paul McEuen -
If we are to believe or accept that buildings are cultural markers, if architects work in a vacuum with their own preconceptions about society, then we won't be creating appropriate cultural markers.
-- Peter Clewes -
I feel almost as if I had been born in a vacuum of innocence, and then had to come to terms with the fact that actually, I was born into the middle of history - the rather grimy normality of the 70s, which did, indeed, retain some traces of human innocence, but were also girded about by the demons of experience.
-- Quentin S. Crisp -
From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."
-- Soseki Natsume
