Vacuums Quotes

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

Actually, New York is great for playing around. I made a lot of studies for New York-a big vacuum cleaner lying on the Battery in Manhattan.

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

It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.

A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it.

You can't reduce poverty in a vacuum. You are doing it in an environment.

A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.

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.

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.

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

Anger is not a real feeling. Every time in my life I've ever been angry, it's because I was scared, or because I was sad and I didn't know it. Anger doesn't just come out of a vacuum.

When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.

Once we reach our goal, we immediately feel compelled to set a higher goal. We're left in a vacuum of unfulfillment.

The UN doesn't work in a vacuum.

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

But a lot of things probably will never change - like our friendships and our working relationships. As far as me and Patrick [Stump, the singer] and all of Fall Out Boy, it's in a vacuum.

It is contrary to reasoning to say that there is a vacuum or space in which there is absolutely nothing.

You can't play bass in a vacuum.

If you aren't aware of the reader, you're working in a vacuum.

We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.

Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.

Where both reason and experience fall short, there occurs a vacuum that can be filled by faith.

Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.

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.

My music doesn't exist in a vacuum; there's a script and there's an actor and it's about to come together.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

What you said was true. we don't live or love in a vacuum. There are people around us who care about us who would be hurt, maybe destroyed if we let ourselves feel what we might want to feel.

I don't like to be walking around in a vacuum, lost in my own thoughts. I'm much better with information.

Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.

UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons.

If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.

Who creates unless he has a vacuum to fill?

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.

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

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

When there is no thought, the kundalini rises. When you create a vacuum, something will be drawn into it. The less thought you have, the more kundalini will flow through the chakras, the shushumna.

Nobody exists in a vacuum.

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.

Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.

Behind the slogans lay an intellectual vacuum.

You will see a 3-D movie in a movie theater for the shared experience of it - or for a date, and so on. You don't all sit at home getting your entertainment in a vacuum.

What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.

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.

Apartments are getting smaller on a whole. Houses are getting smaller. People don't need great big vacuums anymore.