Vacuums Quotes

209 Vacuums quotes by 189 unique authors

There's only one thing that separates us from animals: We aren't afraid of vacuum cleaners. — Jeff Stilson
If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary. — Gene Simmons
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… — James Salter
One color alone means nothing. I acts as in a vacuum, with no other colors to relate to. It is only when colors relate to… — Jay Maisel
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts. — Jay Maisel
If alpha [the fine-structure constant] were bigger than it really is, we should not be able to distinguish matter from ether [the vacuum, nothingness], and… — Max Born
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
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… — Jan Karon
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… — Charles Caleb Colton
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… — Kate Millett
Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks. — Dennis Ritchie
Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason… — Huston Smith
The way we use technology is completely wasteful. Â We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment… — Jacque Fresco
We designers, we don't work in a vacuum. We need business people. We are not the fine artists we are often confused with. — Dieter Rams
How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum… — Hal Varian
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers… — Christian Wiman
All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I am accustomed, as a professional mathematician, to living in a sort of vacuum, surrounded by people who declare with an odd sort of pride… — David Mumford
Sorrow has the fortunate peculiarity that it preys upon itself. It dies of starvation. Since it is essentially an interruption of habits, it can be… — August Strindberg
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others. — William R. Bradford
History resists an ending as surely as nature abhors a vacuum; the narrative of our days is a run-on sentence, every full stop a comma… — Mark Slouka
The gift moves towards the empty place. As it turns in its circle it turns towards him who has been empty-handed the longest, and if… — Lewis Hyde
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… — Asif Ali Zardari
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… — Liz Phair
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

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