Top 100 A Vacuum Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The air around her was cool lately, as if she were creating a vacuum with her unhappiness.
Sarah Addison Allen
#3. 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
#4. Artificial glamor-false eyelashes, that sort of thing-usually is put on to hide a vacuum. The most beautiful face can only look vacuous if it masks an empty head.
Peter Ustinov
#5. My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.
Dorothy Dunnett
#6. Fiction does not invent out of a vacuum, but it invents; and what it invents is, first, the fabric and cadence of language, and then a slant of idea that sails out of these as a fin lifts from the sea.
Cynthia Ozick
#7. If nature abhors a vacuum, historiography loves a void because it can be filled with any number of plausible accounts;
Howe, Nicholas, Anglo-Saxon England and the postcolonial void
Deanne Williams
#8. Media companies' hit-focused marketing did not emerge in a vacuum. It reflects how consumers make choices. The truth is that consumers prefer blockbusters.
Anita Elberse
#9. Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.
Max Brooks
#10. Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
James Larkin
#11. Have you ever heard of anybody buying a vacuum cleaner at a vacuum cleaner store?" "One of the unsolved mysteries of the universe," Packard adds.
Carolyn Crane
#12. What did everyone think robot vacuuming was going to be? Well, they think Rosie the Robot from 'The Jetsons,' a human robot that pushed a vacuum. That was never going to happen.
Colin Angle
#13. Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna.
Frederick Lenz
#15. Sometimes I think death is even more inevitable than taxes," his grandmother replies bleakly. "Humans don't live in a vacuum; we're part of a larger pattern of life.
Charles Stross
#16. Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a person's unconscious effort to build a sense of self to fill what, underneath, is experienced as a vacuum.
Gabor Mate
#17. I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.
Chip Giller
#18. Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
Adam Riess
#19. With film, oftentimes you work in a vacuum and then you get on a high wire and then you try it and then the day's over and that piece of film exists somewhere in a vault for 1000,000 years and that's it.
Chris Pine
#20. Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
Jim Clyburn
#21. How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert
#22. No one acts or experiences in a vacuum ...
R.D. Laing
#23. It was really great to also see the response that people were having to 'Treme' 'cause you're in a vacuum when you're on a TV show. You see the response online, you read about it and all of that, but actually to be live and have that many thousands of fans come out, it's really wonderful.
Wendell Pierce
#24. As actors, you do have to be aware of your audience. You can't act in a vacuum, even if that audience isn't exactly present with you.
Tom Irwin
#25. 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
#26. The comparative absence of biographical information about Hawksmoor provided a vacuum which Ackroyd and others were able to fill with myth and mysticism. Yet
Owen Hopkins
#27. 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.
Henry Rollins
#28. Wise leaders should have known that the human heart cannot exist in a vacuum. If Christians are forbidden to enjoy the wine of the Spirit they will turn to the wine of the flesh ... Christ died for our hearts and the Holy Spirit wants to come and satisfy them.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#29. I was frustrated as a child when I had to use a vacuum. It had a screaming noise and the smell of stale dog and a lack of performance.
James Dyson
#30. Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.
Neil Gaiman
#31. Leadership doesn't occur in a vacuum, it manifests in a context. These contexts are as dynamic as the personalities, stakes, culture and information available.
Michael M. Rose
#32. As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
Mark McKinnon
#33. Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.
Jen Lilley
#34. So it is that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, philosophy abhors an answer, for once the truth is truly attained, the game is truly up.
Dan Garfat-Pratt
#36. A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams
#37. If you had an equation detailing the probability of something emerging from a vacuum, you would still have to ask why that equation applies. Hawking had, in fact, noted the need for a creative factor to breathe fire into the equations.
Antony Flew
#38. There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!
Naomi Watts
#39. We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
Jay Maisel
#40. I'd fire that woman if I knew how to operate a vacuum.
Joey W. Hill
#41. There's been a vacuum with movies that people can relate to. There's been a paucity of dramas that people can relate to. I think audiences are clamoring to connect - particularly after 9/11 - with things that are genuine and real and I think documentaries are filling that need.
George Hickenlooper
#42. It's time to serve my Master. He says, pointing at some steamy thing in the distance. If his master is some type of steam, all I gotta do is get a vacuum and sweep his ass up.
Nandanie Phalgoo
#43. For those of us who quietly seek the white light in the midnight hours, emotions turn out to be a noisy magnetic field. The convenience store can be a vacuum, devoid of that magnetic field: a place where life's tug-of-war can't wear you down. That, to me, is what the ideal convenience store is.
Randy Taguchi
#44. I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.
Rachel Nichols
#45. Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.
Theodor Adorno
#46. The quiet is funereal, air as thick and still as if it never moves; as if all sound has been smothered out, the way a blanket subdues a fire. The atmosphere has weight, and simultaneously seems a vacuum.
Phyllis Edgerly Ring
#47. 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.
John C. Maxwell
#48. When I'm by myself I revert to the times when I would forget about eating, stay up all night working, go until I felt an odd sensation I'd identify after some thought as hunger. Then I'd go through the refrigerator like a vacuum cleaner, sucking in whatever there was. Leftovers.
Margaret Atwood
#49. 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
#50. Nothing that lived and breathed was truly objective - even in a vacuum, even if all that possessed the brain was a self-immolating desire for the truth.
Jeff VanderMeer
#52. If you find yourself running away from something and then suddenly you're isolated in a vacuum, then you have to deal with all the inherent truths and learning things about yourself and the people that are around you.
John Gallagher Jr.
#53. 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
#54. Danny: You can be as morally righteous as you want - in a vacuum - but throw in a second entity and you gotta start acting in response to the other.
Angry Zodd
#55. I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.
James Laughlin
#56. If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.
Gene Simmons
#58. I think there is that very basic yearning for something or someone to be looking after us, for there to be a framework holding the universe together that is benign and intelligent. We're not going to get rid of that; it's just too scary to be that molecule flying around briefly in a vacuum.
Michel Faber
#59. It is not yet a feeling that points her in a direction. It is just the feeling of a vacuum, a void waiting to be filled.
Eleanor Catton
#60. Amazing how quickly someone else's problems become yours. Trouble creates a vacuum into which the rest of us get sucked.
Sue Grafton
#61. 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.
Walton Goggins
#62. 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
#63. Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.
John Searles
#64. I am not ashamed that I was once a vacuum-cleaner salesman, only that I was a *good* vacuum-cleaner salesman.
Robert Morley
#65. Dialogue doesn't take place in a vacuum. Dialogue is contradictory, in that it can either speed up or slow down a passage.
Diana Gabaldon
#66. The federal government abhorred a vacuum, especially one located within easy driving distance.
K.B. Spangler
#67. Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.
Vanna Bonta
#68. A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#69. It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
Rene Descartes
#70. Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.
Roger Bacon
#71. If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
John Barrymore
#72. In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.
Alex Haley
#74. Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.
Anne Michaels
#75. No man is an island, no
woman lives in a vacuum,
and as much as we'd like
to compartmentalize, our
actions and decisions
affect those around us ... even if that's not our
intention.
Peter Adejimi
#77. Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you.
Marty Rubin
#78. But most of all in the last couple of years I have been listening. As a journalist, I learned to listen. It is amazing how much people will tell you if you listen in the right way. Rob, my PA, says that I can listen like a vacuum cleaner. Always beware of somebody who is a really good listener.
Terry Pratchett
#79. Free Will was a vacuum, a negative space. It was the absence of coercion, the absence of compulsion, the absence of agony.
Ian Tregillis
#80. Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.
David Titley
#81. 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
#82. The most serious drawback to the telling-nothing approach is that it made that much more of a mystery of what had happened, and the nature of gossip abhors a vacuum of the unexplained.
Robin McKinley
#83. 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
#84. Engaged, productive employees do not work in a vacuum. They need workplaces that help them bring out the best in themselves - mosh pits of creativity where energy and inspiration can flow freely.
Carson Tate
#85. What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.
Cassandra Clare
#86. 'Real Housewives of New Jersey' has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook.
Andrea Seigel
#87. Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.
Pat Benatar
#88. Vitrine. Upstairs his wife runs a vacuum cleaner; he can
Anthony Doerr
#89. Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
Adrian Tomine
#90. You must love those you lead before you can be an effective leader, you can certainly command without that sense of commitment, but you cannot lead without it. And without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.
Eric Shinseki
#91. At CARE, a leading humanitarian organization, we recognize people live their lives in a holistic manner. Issues such as health care, education and economic empowerment cannot be addressed in a vacuum. Thus, effective programs need to tackle the multiple root causes of poverty.
Helene D. Gayle
#92. I'm a Jew. I'm fascinated by our culture and our history, by what made us the people we are. It influences every breath I take. It informs and guides me. Without it, I'd just be a vacuum.
Mandy Patinkin
#93. You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
Frank McCourt
#94. Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow
#95. We indulge in semantics and slippery-slope rhetoric to excuse injustice. We read a few verse about women in a vacuum of literalism and prideful laziness.
Sarah Bessey
#96. Empty time is not a vacuum to be filled. It is the thing that enables the other things on your mind to be creatively rearranged, like the empty square in the 4 x 4 puzzle that makes it possible to move the other fifteen pieces around.
Harry Lewis
#97. Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
Naomi Klein
#98. Art is essentially communication. It doesn't exist in a vacuum. That's why people make art, so other people can relate to it.
Conor Oberst
#99. We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
Brian May
#100. 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
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