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Vacuum Quotes

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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

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams

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

And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
Francis Wright

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 Alinsky

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

Environmental protection doesn't happen in a vacuum. You can't separate the impact on the environment from the impact on our families and communities.
Jim Clyburn

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow

How many people make themselves abstract to appear profound. The most useful part of abstract terms are the shadows they create to hide a vacuum.
Joseph Joubert

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.
James Larkin

I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
Desmond Tutu

I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
Germaine Greer

I don't know who will lead us through the '90s, but they must be made to speak to this spiritual vacuum at the heart of American society, this tumor of the soul.
Lee Atwater

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
Wyndham Lewis

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.
Henry Rollins

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

If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner.
John Barrymore

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Cesare Pavese

If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
Peter Maxwell Davies

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.
George Borrow

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