Vacuum Quotes
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There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set.
harriet van horne— Women Know Everything! by Karen Weekes, published by Quirk Books, 2007
Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.
john kenneth galbraith— 1984 Speech at the American University, Washington DC. Quoted in Time magazine,18 Jun.
We live in the great indoors: the vacuum cleaner grazes over the carpet, lowing, its udder a swollen wobble. SeeAusten 43:88.
— 1978 'An Inquiry intoTwo Inches of Ivory'.
: Well, they say nature hates a vacuum, Big Daddy. :That'swhattheysay, but sometimes Ithink that a vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
— BRICKBIGDADDY1955 Cat on a HotTin Roof, act 2.
Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.
Saul Bellow— Dangling Man (1944) [Penguin Classics, 1996, ISBN 0-140-18935-1], p. 84
I foresee great refinements in the field of short-pulse microwave signaling, whereby several simultaneous programs may occupy the same channel, in sequence, with incredibly swift electronic communication; vastly important developments in microwave technique, whereby present clumsy connecting leads between wall or floor sockets and electric devices like toasters and vacuum sweepers may become unnecessary; gigantic magnetrons and klystrons, or their successors, will generate megawatts in microwaves; living rooms and their occupants will be heated by high-frequency waves from walls or ceilings; short waves will be generally used in the kitchen for roasting and baking, almost instantaneously
Lee De Forest— "Dawn of the Electronic Age", Popular Mechanics, January 1952
The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.
Boris Johnson— "The least said about Lib Dems, the better", Daily Telegraph, 25 September 2003, p. 24.
He's lost the plot, people tell me. He's drifting rudderless in the wide Sargasso Sea of New Labour's ideological vacuum.
Boris Johnson— "Blair dead in the water? No such luck", Daily Telegraph, 29 April 2004, p. 24.
— On Tony Blair.
Let me also remind you that zero, like all of mathematics, is fictional and an idealization. It is impossible to reach absolute zero temperature or to get perfect vacuum. Luckily, mathematics is a fairyland where ideal and fictional objects are possible.
doron zeilberger— " " (nothing) published in the Personal Journal of Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger
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— p. 21 (Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals (1971))
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.
gaston bachelard— Ch. 2, sect. 3
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
arthur c. clarke— As quoted in Values of the Wise : Humanity's Highest Aspirations (2004) by Jason Merchey, p. 31
When students' language, culture and experience are ignored or excluded in classroom interactions, students are immediately starting from a disadvantage. Everything they have learned about life and the world up to this point is being dismissed as irrelevant to school learning; there are few points of connection to curriculum materials or instruction and so students are expected to learn in an experiential vacuum. Students' silence and nonparticipation under these conditions have frequently been interpreted as lack of academic ability or effort, and teachers’ interactions with students have reflected a pattern of low expectations which become self-fulfilling.
jim cummins— Negotiating Identities: Education for Empowerment in a Diverse Society (1996), pp. 2-3
Fascism is the result of the collapse of Europe's spiritual and social order... catastrophes broke through the everyday routine which makes men accept existing forms, institutions and tenets as unalterable natural laws. They suddenly exposed the vacuum behind the facade of society.
Peter Drucker— p. 24 (The End of Economic Man (1939))
Scientific research is not conducted in a social vacuum.
— p.263 (1973 Edition)
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin , what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
cesare pavese— 1940-03-17
Natura abhorret vacuum.
françois rabelais— Translation: Nature abhors a vacuum.Chapter 5.
His reluctance to pay for elaborate or expensive equipment, perhaps the result of an impoverished childhood, had established the legendary "sealing wax-and-string" tradition of the Cavendish , where everyday materials were ingeniously used to make and patch up experimental equipment, with sealing wax proving particularly useful for vacuum seals.
j. j. thomson— Dianna Preston, Before the Fallout from Marie Curie to Hiroshima (2005)
To all appearance, the phenomena exhibited by the pendulum are not to be accounted for by impact: in fact, it is usually assumed that corresponding phenomena would take place if the earth and the pendulum were situated in an absolute vacuum, and at any conceivable distance from one another. If this be so, it follows that there must be two totally different kinds of causes of motion: the one impact a vera causa [true cause], of which, to all appearance, we have constant experience; the other, attractive or repulsive 'force' a metaphysical entity which is physically inconceivable.
— Thomas Henry Huxley, 'The Advance of Science in the Last Half-Century (1889)
Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.
— Robert M. Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
The industrial designer is found in many fields of industry , which represent a wide diversity of manufactured products. Some of these fields are: Automobiles, airplanes, boats, trains, trailers, trucks; vacuum cleaners, washing machines, toasters, electric fans, lamps; furniture, hardware, electrical equipment; china, glassware, pottery; silverware; garden implements; farm machinery; tools of all kinds;
— Institute for Research (Chicago, Ill.) (1940) Industrial Designing as a Career. p. 3
vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids.
roger bacon— Roger Bacon, Compendium Studii Theologiae (1292) (Compendium of the Study of Theology) c. viii. as cited by George Gresley Perry, The Life and Times of Robert Grosseteste, Bishop of Lincoln (1871)
When students' language, culture and experience are ignored or excluded in classroom interactions, students are immediately starting from a disadvantage. Everything they have learned about life and the world up to this point is being dismissed as irrelevant to school learning; there are few points of connection to curriculum materials or instruction and so students are expected to learn in an experiential vacuum. Students' silence and nonparticipation under these conditions have frequently been interpreted as lack of academic ability or effort, and teachers’ interactions with students have reflected a pattern of low expectations which become self-fulfilling.
jim cummins— Negotiating Identities: Education for Empowerment in a Diverse Society (1996), pp. 2-3
You will find that for a smoking flax there is no specific like heaven's oxygen; for a faint and flickering piety there is no cure comparable to the one without which all our own exertions are but an effort to light a lamp in a vacuum the breath of the Holy Spirit.
— P. 321. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
[F]reedom, like any other virtue, does not exist in a vacuum. It must be worked and practiced to exist at all. And like any other virtue, it imposes upon those who would have it the unpleasant tasks of discipline and sacrifice. A materialistic people do not learn these tasks by reading posters or listening to pep talks, any more than you can learn to play the violin by the same methods.
— Ralph Austin Bard, United States Assistant Secretary of the Navy, speech to the Industrial Union of Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America, New York City, September 24, 1942. Vital Speeches of the Day, Vol. VII, pp. 21-23
The processing of cotton seed oil involves a series of steps including heating, addition of sodium hydroxide, bleaching with clay , filtering and treating with steam under vacuum .
— OECD (2004), P.7
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be!
cesare pavese— Cesare Pavese, This Business of Living, 1940-03-17
Canada is either an idea or it does not exist. It is either an intellectual undertaking or it is little more than a resource-rich vacuum lying in the buffer zone just north of a great empire.
john ralston saul— John Ralston Saul, Reflections of a Siamese Twin.
Socrates is not just expounding noble ideas in a vacuum. He is in the middle of a war between those who think truth is absolute and those who think truth is relative. He is fighting that war with everything he has.
— Robert M. Pirsig, in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 29
