“ 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- Copy
“ If it isn't the sheriff, it's the finance company; I've got more attachments on me than a vacuum cleaner. ”
- John Barrymore- Copy
“ If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be! ”
- Cesare Pavese- Copy
“ If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it. ”
- Catherine Ponder- Copy
“ It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower, snow-blower, or vacuum cleaner. ”
- Ben Bergor- Copy
“ Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. ”
- Gaston Bachelard- Copy
“ 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. ”
- E. L. Doctorow- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
“ Too often, governments have operated in a vacuum, believing they could come up with some magic formula to which they have an exclusive patent. ”
- Kim Campbell- Copy
“ The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. ”
- Boris Johnson- Copy
“ Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner. ”
- Sophia Loren- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. ”
- Arthur C. Clarke- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
“ There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, offers more entertainment than the TV set. ”
- Harriet van Horne- Copy
“ In today's world, no State, however powerful, can protect itself on its own. Likewise, no country, weak or strong, can realize prosperity in a vacuum. ”
- Kofi Annan- Copy
“ Paradise: a beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. ”
- Ernest Hemingway- Copy
“ A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with. ”
- Tennessee Williams- Copy
“ Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. ”
- Ben Franklin- Copy
“ All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door. The violence of revolutions is the violence of men who charge into a vacuum. ”
- John Kenneth Galbraith- Copy
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