Quotes and Sayings About Vacuums

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

#Space #Water #Vacuums

One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable

#Clothes #Space #Vacuums

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

#Thinking #Ideas #Vacuums

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

#Keys #Vacuums #World

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

#Party #Thinking #Vacuums

We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.
-- Asne Seierstad

#Growing Up #Vacuums #Grows

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

#Country #Weather #Vacuums

Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.
-- Billy Graham

#God #Vacuums #Longing

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
-- Blaise Pascal

#Spiritual #Heart #Vacuums

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

#Vacuums #Void #Empty

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

#Practice #Vacuums #Littles

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.
-- Brian May

#Play #Important #Vacuums

So, my fellow Christians, protest this film if you like, but then how about devoting some energy to fill the vacuum created by your retreat from popular culture.
-- Cal Thomas

#Christian #Energy #Vacuums

Success doesn't happen in a vacuum. You’re only as good as the people you work with and the people you work for.
-- Casey Kasem

#People #Vacuums

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.
-- Catherine Ponder

#Vacuums #Want #Prosperity

Acting is like a snowstorm or perhaps a large empty vacuum. I`m not deluded by the fact that I`m getting all these offers for work, I`m very happy about it, but I know also that there is the other side and who knows, next year, they may not offer me anything. You never know.
-- Christopher Lee

#Years #Acting #Vacuums

Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.
-- Clare Boothe Luce

#Vacuums #Head Of State

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 then the French and then the Renaissance with all the Latin and Greek and Hebrew in the background.
-- David Crystal

#Latin #Greek #Vacuums

It sounded like a very loud vacuum cleaner behind us.
-- David J. C. MacKay

#Vacuums #Loud #Behinds

Void is when there is absolutely nothing there and the nothing is natural, a complete vacuum. But empty - with empty, you are aware of what's supposed to be there. Empty means something is missing.
-- David Levithan

#Mean #Missing #Vacuums

Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.
-- Dennis Ritchie

#Vacuums #Sometimes #Stills

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?
-- Diane Glancy

#Creativity #Vacuums

Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.
-- Doron Zeilberger

#Zero #Perfect #Vacuums

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
-- Edith Sitwell

#Nature #Years #Vacuums

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

#Heart #Sunglasses #Vacuums

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

#Vacuums #Hobbies #Strange

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

#Talking #Giving #Vacuums

Without leadership, command is a hollow experience, a vacuum often filled with mistrust and arrogance..
-- Eric Shinseki

#Leadership #Arrogance #Vacuums

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.
-- Evangelista Torricelli

#Vacuums #Doe #Resistance

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

#Soul #Mind #Vacuums