Vacuums Quotes

209 Vacuums quotes by 189 unique authors

Gramophone and movies were merely the mechanization of speech and gesture. But the radio and TV were not just the electronification of speech and gesture… — Marshall McLuhan
I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum… — Donald Miller
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… — Wyndham Lewis
When I was a kid, my mom used to run the vacuum cleaner, and the noise would bother me so much that I would run… — Steve Burns
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
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… — Lee Atwater
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
English has been this vacuum cleaner of a language, because of its history meeting up with the Romans and then the Danes, the Vikings and… — David Crystal
I like stuff designed by dead people. The old designers. They always got it right because they didn't have to grow up with computers. All… — John Maeda
Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum. — Baruch Spinoza
There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country. — Daniel Schorr
A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light. — Randall Dale Adams
When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling… — Clint Walker
The director is simply the audience. So the terrible burden of the director is to take the place of that yawning vacuum, to be the… — Orson Welles
Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I… — Arthur Gordon Webster
The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it… — Rich Hall
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
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum. — John Kenneth Galbraith
I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have… — Alice James
We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies. — Asne Seierstad
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… — Michael J. Fox
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… — Ace Frehley
I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover. — Germaine Greer
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

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