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By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it. -- Edith Sitwell
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
The American people abhor a vacuum. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. -- Sophia Loren
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. -- Arthur C. Clarke
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. -- Saul Bellow
The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner. -- Roseanne Barr
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. -- Germaine Greer
If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. -- John Barrymore
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum. -- Peter Maxwell Davies
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. -- Cesare Pavese
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
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
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. -- E. L. Doctorow
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
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
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
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
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. -- Khaled Hosseini
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point. -- Shiv Khera
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. -- Wyndham Lewis
I'm a good example of someone who can come to Hollywood and keep their feet on the ground with all the rock stars, all the drama that goes with being here. It's still important to pump your own gas and to be able to vacuum. -- Pamela Anderson
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. -- Hillary Clinton
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. -- Sam Abell
All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy. -- Jerry Saltz
Leaders cannot work in a vacuum. They may take on larger, seemingly more important roles in an organization, but this does not exclude them from asking for and using feedback. In fact, a leader arguably needs feedback more so than anyone else. It's what helps a leader respond appropriately to events in pursuit of successful outcomes. -- Jack Canfield
In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world. -- Melissa Rosenberg
An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it. -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Mow the carpet, vacuum the lawn, and make love like war. -- Jarod Kintz
We have enough space in our hearts, but we are afraid of allowing animals shit and mess around with our feelings. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
After years in utter darkness, I force my eyes into the light. For I must retain my sight, that I might view the wholeness of the void, objectively. -- Justin K. McFarlane Beau
I vacuumed my piano, hoping to soak up the last of the concertos. I should sell musical sponges, for the lover in the kitchen in all of us. -- Jarod Kintz
Know, O man you are a particle of the supreme feminine being sucked to an obscure vacuum - of a bliss but that we can only name - universe! -- Preeth Nambiar
Epicurus... supposes not only all mixt bodies, but all others to be produced by the various and casual occursions of atoms, moving themselves to and fro by an internal principle in the immense or rather infinite vacuum. -- Robert Boyle
At any rate, during the few hours when the depressive state itself eased off long enough to permit the luxury of concentration, I had recently filled this vacuum with fairly extensive reading and I had absorbed many fascinating and troubling facts -- William Styron
This book is dedicated to all the lawn chairs in all the living rooms of the world. I pray this book provides your owners with the strength, courage, and the wisdom to vacuum their lawns and mow their carpets without the government having to intervene and force them to. -- Jarod Kintz
Nature abhors a vacuum. -- Francois Rabelais
Nobody exists in a vacuum. -- Garry Winogrand
Nature abhors the vacuum tube. -- John R. Pierce
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. -- Baruch Spinoza
The UN doesn't work in a vacuum. -- Kofi Annan
You can't play bass in a vacuum. -- Roger Glover
Nothing can be appreciated in a vacuum. -- Chuck Klosterman
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum. -- Henry Kissinger
Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum. -- Henry Kissinger
Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum. -- Tom Stoppard
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart. -- Blaise Pascal
No one acts or experiences in a vacuum... -- R. D. Laing
Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill? -- Diane Glancy
As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner. -- Britney Spears
In the vacuum of the heart love falls forever. -- John Updike
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. -- Dennis Ritchie
...a discontinuity, like a vacuum, is abhorred by nature. -- Harold Hotelling
It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us. -- David J. C. MacKay
Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen. -- Clare Boothe Luce
Nature does abhor a vacuum, but she equally abhors pressure. -- Alan Bradley
Since nature abhors a vacuum, the void must be in you. -- Marty Rubin
The existential vacuum manifests itself mainly in a state of boredom. -- Viktor E. Frankl
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat. -- Margaret Halsey
Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum. -- Manmohan Singh
Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation. -- Max Brooks
I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner? -- Liz Carpenter
If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum. -- Joan Didion
When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum. -- Emma Stone
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it. -- Zelda Fitzgerald
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart. -- Jojo Moyes
I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially. -- Xavier Rudd
I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on. -- Roseanne Barr
Silence isn't golden, it's deadly. It's a vacuum that fills up with ghosts. -- Karen Marie Moning
Rigour and purity in assembling words, however simple the result, create a vacuum. -- Theodor Adorno
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill. -- Saint Augustine
I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum. -- Desmond Tutu
In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum. -- Buzz Aldrin
Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. -- Wislawa Szymborska
After a regime is removed, however, it is dangerous to leave a security vacuum. -- Paul Wolfowitz
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. -- Jay Maisel
Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance.. -- Eric Shinseki
Sadly, American teenagers are to a weightless vacuum as seat cushions are to polyurethane foam - -- Marisha Pessl
There's only one thing that separates us from animals: We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners. -- Jeff Stilson
If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it. -- Catherine Ponder
We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum. -- Brian May
Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes. -- Miles Teller
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. -- Naomi Klein
Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled. -- Nikki Giovanni
When you look at a vacuum in a quantum theory of fields, it isn't exactly nothing. -- Peter Higgs
The aristocracy had crumbled in her hands; the power vacuum she purchased was a good decision. -- Charli Frisky
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind. -- Billy Graham
Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith. -- Jostein Gaarder
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage. -- Vanna Bonta
An improviser does not operate from a formless vacuum, but from three billion years of organic evolution -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens. -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. -- William R. Bradford
Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage -- Vanna Bonta
The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether. -- Robert B. Laughlin
The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being. -- Heinz Pagels
When you're doing a movie, you're in a vacuum, just going, "Well, that's done. Let's see what happens." -- Jennifer Aniston
In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen. -- Edward Abbey
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. -- Charlaine Harris
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ. -- Blaise Pascal
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. -- Henry David Thoreau
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. -- Boris Johnson
I often feel I'm working in a vacuum, or in a country where few readers can hear the sounds. -- James Laughlin
A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. -- Randall Dale Adams
A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. -- Tennessee Williams
Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it. -- Thelma Ritter
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. -- Ernest Hemingway
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary. -- Gene Simmons
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable? -- Cinda Williams Chima
Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum. -- James Alan Gardner
In America , the media lives in a vacuum where they are able to not just criticize; they're able to destroy. -- Rush Limbaugh
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
My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest. -- Jay Asher
I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information. -- Christian Slater
It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing. -- Rene Descartes
In that day, we didn't have no remote controls and vacuum cleaners. If you wanted all that stuff you had children! -- Tyler Perry
Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment. -- Jen Lilley
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. -- Gaston Bachelard

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