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Quotes About Vacuum

Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
~ Gaston Bachelard
I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
~ Parker Posey
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 into the woods to calm down. I feel like that vacuum cleaner has been on since I moved to New York City.
~ Steve Burns
Health lies -- implicitly -- in merging with something (matter) rather than nothing (vacuum).
~ Samuel R. Delany
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
The horse could not do without Manhattan. It drew him like a magnet, like a vacuum, like oats, or a mare, or an open, never-ending, tree-lined road.
~ Mark Helprin
There is no such thing as a perfect vacuum in history. That unheard-of absence to which we are reduced, and which I have the pleasure and the misfortune to reveal to you, you would be mistaken to imagine merely a blank, uninscribed; for in it I discern—presentiment or hallucination?—a kind of expectation of other gods. Which ones? No one can say. All I know, and it is what everyone knows, is that a situation like ours cannot be endured indefinitely.
~ Emil M. Cioran
Your cat may never have to hunt farther than the kitchen counter for its supper nor face a predator more fierce than the vacuum cleaner.
~ Barbara L. Diamond
Empty minds are abhorred by thought as vacuums are by nature.
~ Barbara Vine
What expressions we used -- in part taken over and in part newly invented! -- above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
~ barth karl ii
My mind was so dull, my nerves so worn from waiting, that only an emotionless vacuum remained.
~ Gerda Weissmann Klein
Even in empty space, time and space still exist.
~ Sean M. Carroll
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict.
~ Saul David Alinsky
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
By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
~ Edith Sitwell
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
~ Ayn Rand
Deoarece principiul de incertitudine nu permite s? avem valori exacte atât pentru câmp, cât È™i pentru viteza lui de variaÈ›ie, spaÈ›iul nu e niciodat? gol. El poate avea o starea de energie minim?, numit? vid, dar acea stare e supus? la ceea ce numim fluctuaÈ›ii cuantice sau fluctuaÈ›ii ale vidului.
~ Stephen Hawking
But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.
~ Jojo Moyes
The intolerance of uncertainty and ignorance flows not only from pridefulness, but from a universal human desire to find meanings and patterns everywhere. The mind abhors a vacuum.
~ Jon Elster
The human imagination abhors a vacuum, after all, and seeks to fill in the blanks in a life or a history
~ Jonathan Kirsch
Inflation targeting, I argued, could help fill the information vacuum.
~ Ben S. Bernanke
Hope can live in a vacuum.
~ Greg Rucka
Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity
~ Gregory Maguire
My worst Christmas ever was in 1987 when Santa brought me and my sister a dose of chicken-pox. And my worst present ever was a Dirt Devil vacuum cleaner! I don't like to sound ungrateful, but I do find vacuuming difficult to get excited about.
~ Sophia Di Martino