Vacuums Quotes - Page 15

• The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

  Roseanne Barr

  Funny Relationship, Worry, House

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• God is at the tip of our scalpels, our screwdrivers, our computer terminals, our dust rags, our vacuum cleaners, our pencils and pens. He is with us in our wheelchairs, or on our hospital beds, when all we can do is sit or lie flat. When we envision Him and His purpose in what we do, then we begin to grow aware of His presence in the middle of it. We are able to engage in our inward conversation with Him as we work, naturally, without strain. He becomes our partner, our collaborator.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  God, Lying, Dust

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• In all of us there is a hunger, marrow-deep, to know our heritage- to know who we are and where we have come from. Without this enriching knowledge, there is a hollow yearning. No matter what our attainments in life, there is still a vacuum, an emptiness, and the most disquieting loneliness.

  Alex Haley

  Loneliness, Adoption, Heritage

  Alex Haley (2007). “Alex Haley: The Man Who Traced America's Roots”, Reader's Digest Association

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• I worked a telemarketing job. I always worked those because I always knew how to talk to people and I always knew how to sell because my father was a salesman. He used to sell vacuum cleaners, payroll services to companies, so that was natural for me to go into sales.

  Kanye West

  Jobs, Father, People

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• Creation out of absolute nothing is a metaphysical quagmire for theists anyway, since nothing must at least have the potentiality for becoming something. Since theists are stuck with potentiality, it might as well be something like a quantum vacuum.

  Taner Edis

  Religion, Quagmire, Might

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• 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

  Technology, Issues, Water

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Quantum events have a way of just happening, without any cause, as when a radioactive atom decays at a random time. Even the quantum vacuum is not an inert void, but is boiling with quantum fluctuations. In our macroscopic world, we are used to energy conservation, but in the quantum realm this holds only on average. Energy fluctuations out of nothing create short-lived particle-antiparticle pairs, which is why the vacuum is not emptiness but a sea of transient particles. An uncaused beginning, even out of nothing, for spacetime is no great leap of the imagination.

  Taner Edis

  Average, Sea, Imagination

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• Marriage is like a vacuum cleaner. You stick it to your ear and it sucks out all your energy and ambition.

  Marlo Thomas

  Ambition, Sticks, Energy

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• The reason why so few good books are written is, that so few people that can write know anything. In general an author has always lived in a room, has read books, has cultivated science, is acquainted with the style and sentiments of the best authors, but he is out of the way of employing his own eyes and ears. He has nothing to hear and nothing to see. His life is a vacuum.

  Walter Bagehot

  Book, Writing, Eye

  Walter Bagehot, Norman St. John-Stevas (1965). “The collected works of Walter Bagehot”

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• Nature abhors a vacuum, even in the heads of statesmen.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Head Of State, Statesmen

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• 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

  Believe, Leisure, Philosopher

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.834, ShandonPress

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• The tension of a mysterious danger is even more unbearable than danger itself. People hate the vacuum of an unknown situation. They want security. They even prefer war to the insecure expectation of a war with its threat of enemy surprise. This vague fearful expectation acts on their fantasies. They anticipate all kinds of mysterious dangers; they begin to provoke them. It is the evocation of fear and danger in order to escape the tension of insecurity.

  Joost Meerloo

  Hate, War, Insecure

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• You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it.

  Theodore Bikel

  Laughing, Six Months, May

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• As pissed as a fart in a vacuum cleaner.

  Britney Spears

  Funny, Fart, Cleaners

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• In space, you don't get that much noise. Noise doesn't propagate in a vacuum.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Space, Noise

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• We tend to put the environment last because we think the first thing we have to do is eliminate poverty. But you can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

  Wangari Maathai

  Thinking, Lasts, Poverty

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• Films are big hits when they touch a lot of people. Things are not funny in a vacuum, they're funny because we respond to some personal dislocation, some embarrassment, some humiliation, some pain we've suffered, or some desire we have.

  Harold Ramis

  Pain, People, Desire

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Comedians, such as yourself, Jon Stewart and others, are a valuable supplement, and here's why: Good journalism at its best frequently speaks truth to power. What's happened with journalists - again, I don't except myself from this criticism - in some ways we've lost our guts. We need a spine transplant. What's happened is comedians, in their own way, speak truth to power and fill that vacuum that we in journalism have too often left, particularly post 9/11.

  Dan Rather

  Comedian, Criticism, Needs

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• Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

  John R. Pierce

  Tubes

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• Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

  Miles Teller

  Eye, Acting, Directors

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Of course, you're not making records in a vacuum. I'm not making them for myself. It would be nice if I could get more people to hear them. But if I have to sell my soul to the devil to do it, I won't.

  Pat Benatar

  Nice, People, Soul

  Interview with Jancee Dunn, believermag.com. May 1, 2003.

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• I think personal actions definitely matter. I think collectively they can make a big difference. But I also think that people don't live in a vacuum.

  Chip Giller

  Thinking, Differences, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  Xavier Rudd

  Age, Young, Cleaners

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• Humans abhor a vacuum. The immediate filling of a vacuum is one of the basic functions of speech. Meaningless conversations are no less important in our lives than meaningful ones.

  Lidiya Ginzburg

  Meaningful, Important, Speech

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• 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

  Home, Parent, Sound

  "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Wells, J., uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

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