Top 86 Quotes About Vacuums
#1. You opened the door
and I instantly got sucked
into your eyes like tiny vacuums.
Shannon Lynette
#2. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Nikki Giovanni
#3. The way innovating companies are designed leaves ambiguities, overlaps, decision conflicts or decision vacuums in some parts of the organisation. People rail at this, curse it-and invent innovative ways to overcome it.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#4. There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive in vacuums in space and boiling hot water and freezing subzero temperatures.
Alycia Debnam Carey
#5. We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
Asne Seierstad
#6. Evan no longer tells people I fight bad guys for a living. When asked, he tells his friends that his dad talks on the phone a lot and vacuums on occasion.
David Bellavia
#7. To go against gangs or drugs is meaningless unless this is mostly done by filling in the empties, the vacuums, and stop the neglect and harm we do as detached, mean, irresponsible adults and communities. The answer is in our hands.
Luis J. Rodriguez
#8. History is a yarn. And can I deny that what I wanted all along was not some golden nugget that history would at last yield up, but History itself: the Grand Narrative, the filler of vacuums, the dispeller of fears of the dark?
Graham Swift
#9. 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
#10. Nature abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills.
Terry Pratchett
#11. Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.
James Dyson
#12. A [news] magazine printed a [photo-illustration] of me in a ball gown holding a vacuum cleaner, saying I started a company. Last time I checked, I'm not selling vacuums. It was very sexist.
Reese Witherspoon
#13. There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums.
Michael J. Fox
#14. Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums ... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to The Little Mermaid, no work of the imagination is truly apolitical, because the world and our hopes for it are always part of our stories.
John Green
#15. Our minds are information vacuums. Either we fill them with thoughts of our choosing or someone else will.
Ray A. Davis
#16. 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
#17. Empty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature.
Barbara Vine
#18. I do not snivel that snivel the world over,
That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,
That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.
Walt Whitman
#19. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them neatly away so they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the marie celeste, and the chuck keys from electric drills.
Terry Pratchett
#21. I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds.
James Laughlin
#22. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
Blaise Pascal
#27. Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum.
Theodor Adorno
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.
Jen Lilley
#31. 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
#32. No one acts or experiences in a vacuum ...
R.D. Laing
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#36. The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.
Robert B. Laughlin
#37. 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
#38. In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.
Edward Abbey
#39. 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.
David Bohm
#41. 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.
Damon Lindelof
#42. An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution
Stephen Nachmanovitch
#43. 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
#44. The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom.
Viktor E. Frankl
#45. 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
#47. I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.
Roseanne Barr
#48. Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.
James Alan Gardner
#50. It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
Rene Descartes
#51. Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.
Vanna Bonta
#53. A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.
Randall Dale Adams
#54. You do not live in a vacuum nor can you harvest the better fruits of life without help and ENCOURAGEMENT from others.
Og Mandino
#56. I am Woman, here me roar ... of is that my vacuum cleaner?
Liz Carpenter
#57. 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.
David Sedaris
#58. There's only one thing that separates us from animals: We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners.
Jeff Stilson
#59. When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens."
Jennifer Aniston
#60. 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.
Bashar Al-Assad
#61. 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
#63. A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
Zelda Fitzgerald
#64. If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
Catherine Ponder
#65. Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called the vacuum which God left behind.
Billy Graham
#66. 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.
Walt Whitman
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
Heinz Pagels
#70. 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
#71. The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
C. Northcote Parkinson
#72. 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.
Charles Caleb Colton
#73. If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.
Joan Didion
#74. When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing.
Peter Higgs
#75. 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
#76. You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.
Joseph Pilates
#77. There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
Saint Augustine
#78. 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
#79. Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?
Diane Glancy
#80. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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.
Pope John Paul II
#84. Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
Margaret Halsey
#85. 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
#86. The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
Tim Ferriss
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