Vacuum Quotes

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

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.

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

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

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

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.

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.

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

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.!

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.

Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.

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.

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.

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.

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.

The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

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.

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness.

The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can possibly be derived; and I long daily to die more and more to it; even though I obtain not that comfort from spiritual things which I earnestly desire.

Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.

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

The American people abhor a vacuum.

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.

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.