Vacuum Quotes
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
Xavier Rudd -
In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.
Buzz Aldrin
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And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really.
Rick Moranis -
That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.
Isaac Newton -
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 replaced by new habits. Constituting, as it does, a void, it is soon filled up by a real horror vacuum.
August Strindberg -
It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.
Rene Descartes -
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese -
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
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We are not out there as a vacuum cleaner, ... We don't have that capability and we don't want that capability.
B. R. Hayden -
What came to my mind yesterday and also today is to see the vacuum that he leaves be filled by people with a sense of responsibility, with a sense of unity, with a sense of generosity for the people of Kosovo.
Javier Solana -
You can't play bass in a vacuum.
Roger Glover -
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 -
Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in.
George Eliot -
Do not go to Arsenal, you will not level out. You will bottom out at Arsenal. It’s such a football vacuum.
Adrian Durham
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There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
Blaise Pascal -
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 -
When you are working, you are so far away and so absorbed, it's inevitable that you fall into a vacuum when you stop.. ..every time when I finish a painting, I always have to wait to get my strength back before I can begin another.
Bram van Velde -
When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.
Emma Stone -
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
Blaise Pascal -
Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.
Ada Louise Huxtable
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If a vacuum cleaner salesman rings your front door, he will be selling HIMSELF first. The vacuum cleaner is secondary.
Gene Simmons -
Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.
David Titley -
A vacuum should be weightless, but I stagger under the burden of it.
Erin Kelly -
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow