Vacuum Quotations

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one.

In 'Twilight,' you're setting up the world. You're introducing the world, and I was also writing in a vacuum because I didn't know who the actors were going to be. Now you're going to 'New Moon' and 'Eclipse,' and I could write specifically to them in my mind. So it becomes a more comfortable world.

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me.

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

People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

One of the great things about the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which my company iRobot designed, is that it's too cheap not to be autonomous.

Laser cooling opened a new route to ultralow temperature physics. Laser cooling experiments, with room temperature vacuum chambers and easy optical access, look very different from cryogenic cells with multi-layer thermal shielding around them.

I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.

I live in a dumb house. Which is not to say that I don't love its quirky charm, its drafty windows and leaky fireplaces and an electrical system that protests when too many people are trying to vacuum and microwave at the same time. But charm is not always user-friendly.

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

The cinema has done more for my spiritual life than the church. My ideas of fame, success and beauty all originate from the big screen. Whereas Christian religion is retreating everywhere and losing more and more influence; film has filled the vacuum and supports us with myths and action-controlling images.

We're in an information vacuum because it's going to be another couple of days until we get a meaningful damage assessment.

We remain in a stimulus vacuum and the underlying motif this week will be the Federal Reserve meeting next week.

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.

With vacuum fluctuations, we have to distinguish between evidence for the existence of the fluctuations, and for their energy.

The psychic space that Pac-Man grew to occupy in early 1980s popular culture was truly enormous, filling in the vacuum of downtime between "The Empire Strikes Back" and "Return of the Jedi" and stepping into the breach vacated by Kiss, when all of Am

So many decisions of the Supreme Court have been made in the vacuum as to when life begins ... and it belies the scientific facts, the medical facts, that are out there today,

She's got incredible range at third base and she's learning how to go back on the ball better. She's just a vacuum out there.

She made it to the top, also because there was a vacuum of power and she was her party's only hope. But she is nevertheless highly competent and fit for the office.

My first project was to build an ionization gauge control circuit for Professor Edgar Everhart's Cockcroft-Walton accelerator. In those days, vacuum tubes were the active components in electronic circuits. I can still recall the warm orange glow of the vacuum tube filaments and the cool blue glow of the thyratron tubes.

Of course Argentina can pay its debt. This is an overreaction caused by the power vacuum ahead of the elections.

Nature and TV abhor a vacuum and one was quickly created with the merger that spawned the CW.

NATO is prepared to consider such changes if it will not create a vacuum or lead to new fighting, and is part of a settlement to the problems in the region, ... Premature changes, however, carry the risk of only making matters worse.

Philosophies such as Marxism-Leninism and Communism are entirely losing their attractiveness. With the gunshots in 1989, they have collapsed like soap bubbles. Being in this situation, the Chinese Communist Party is soliciting new concepts to unify the Chinese society. Nationalism or patriotism seems operable to fill the vacuum left by Marxism-Leninism and Mao's Communism.

Postponing the election will lead to a vacuum and to a dark future. Postponing the election is not the solution.

My turn-around time is short. Nine out of 10 times, you'll get your vacuum back the next day. You'll not be without your vacuum for a week.

I would be a distraction--and the vacuum has been filled. That said, I plan to speak out and write some op-ed pieces, but no bus tour.

I have found that so many directors and producers in the room say nothing, and this can be deadly. It's very difficult to audition for comedy in the vacuum of a small room, but it's the only way most do it.

Imagine a hospital housekeeper working with a loud vacuum cleaner for hours at a time. Over time, this can affect worker productivity, efficiency, and may be as harmful to their health, just as inhaling the fumes of powerful cleaning chemicals.

From the Republican standpoint, we need the president to continue using the bully pulpit - in terms of defining the economy, defining the war, defining the war on terrorism. As opposed to that vacuum that was created last year where the Democrats defined the war and oil prices defined the economy.

There is a leadership vacuum in this community. I want my candidacy to be about participating in the local government, to participate in the community.

There is a huge political vacuum waiting to be filled.

His passing leaves a huge vacuum of leadership that no one individual can ever fill, ... There will never be another like him.

Knowing I needed to build some counters, I began by putting together a good vacuum system and a pumping system to build ion chambers of some sort.

I think we're going through this natural vacuum in the news cycle where we have a quiet economic calendar and the fourth-quarter earnings reports are slowing down. It's difficult to generate any interest in the market.

I think we've had a talent vacuum in the administration that has created many of these financial problems. I think the Mayor is putting together a better team that can deal with it.

I think it's pathetic that a court of law cannot be in a vacuum of the legal system, without the influence of the public threatening to do great bodily harm to people and property. It's really a pathetic statement for our country.

People are ceasing to believe those things for which we have empirical evidence. That creates a vacuum into which psychics can flow.

Our real goal was to focus on those issues in which we had a strong vested interest so that the online medium will become the mass-market medium of the 21st century, as we all believe it will. The greatest threat to delivering on that goal is the vacuum of leadership for our members in Washington, Brussels and throughout Asia.

My husband went through a phase of giving me vacuum cleaners, sewing machines and Mixmasters. It's ironic. He is encouraging me to develop a hobby, I think.

It is exactly the strategy of the terrorists to create a vacuum of disorder and lawlessness, and the way to do that is to attempt to eliminate precisely the dedicated civil servants like the prime minister, the president and the senior members of the interim government.

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Without comprehensive federal legislation, it is possible that something of a vacuum will be created and states may enter, not always with consistent proposals, to protect the privacy of their citizens, ... There may soon come a point when the business community will have to decide whether it prefers a single comprehensive federal rule, or a situation in which a variety of state rules create difficult to follow mandates.

We are in a bit of a vacuum with the long three-day weekend coming up. Tomorrow will be a vacuum kind of day.

We are in a bit of a news vacuum as we wait for the deluge of corporate earnings reports.

We are not out there as a vacuum cleaner, ... We don't have that capability and we don't want that capability.

The Reaction was designed for powerful, sustained suction at the nozzle where it matters most. For consumers, this means the last room you vacuum is as clean as the first.

We don't know how wide this electronic vacuum cleaner is sweeping.

We should start figuring out how we get out of there. But with this understanding, we cannot leave a vacuum that further destabilizes the Middle East,

We really do face an incredible leadership vacuum in this state generally,

This will involve a new propellant feed system to the engine, validation of a totally different set of environmental conditions than the engine has experienced in the past, and almost certainly a re-start capability -- in vacuum -- which involves a whole new set of technical requirements.

withdrawal would create a vacuum and we, the Iraqis, are not ready to fill it. There would be the possibility of a junior Saddam coming up again.

There is also a lot of duplication of aid. Aid agencies are scrambling their teams, but in many cases they are reaching where aid has already reached. There is a vacuum of coordination.

The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.

Theory: A kite can be flown in an absolute vacuum if it can be towed at the speed of light.

To an extent we're in a vacuum where even poor economic statistics, such as the durable good orders, can't dissuade investors.

What came to my mind yesterday and also today is to see the vacuum that he leaves be filled by people with a sense of responsibility, with a sense of unity, with a sense of generosity for the people of Kosovo.

The priorities are still to vacuum up the oil and collecting the contaminated snow, to make sure the tundra is not contaminated.

Before I put a sketch on paper, the whole idea is worked out mentally. In my mind I change the construction, make improvements, and even operate the device. Without ever having drawn a sketch I can give the measurements of all parts to workmen, and when completed all these parts will fit, just as certainly as though I had made the actual drawings. It is immaterial to me whether I run my machine in my mind or test it in my shop. The inventions I have conceived in this way have always worked. In thirty years there has not been a single exception. My first electric motor, the vacuum wireless light, my turbine engine and many other devices have all been developed in exactly this way.

Every delay comes at our expense. There is no vacuum in serious crime. The No. 1 is assassinated, the No. 2 immediately takes his place. We must act before the substitute accumulates strength. Afterward, it's too late.

Didn't it strike you as unusual that someone concerned about locating his daughter would vacuum up potential trace evidence,

European CEOs have to act much more as business politicians ... in the vacuum left over by a world where we have less and less boundaries, less and less power of national governments.

Every year we go through all our storm sewer catch basins and vacuum out debris that is in there. We've been doing this for quite a few years.

The story of Google is just when everyone concluded that a search engine would never make any money, everyone backed out of it, and Google walked into that vacuum and dominated.

Quintessence is a dynamic, time-evolving, and spatially dependent form of energy with negative pressure sufficient to drive the accelerating expansion, ... Whereas the cosmological constant is a very specific form of energy vacuum energy quintessence encompasses a wide class of possibilities.

'Real Housewives of New Jersey' has taught me more about the nature of a vacuum in space than any of the demonstrations in my high school AP physics textbook.

A quick pullout would leave a vacuum that Iran would be all too happy to fill. The Iraqis who are supporting a democratic government would be completely demoralized. It could lead to a very quick unraveling of national cohesion.

An expected political vacuum is not something the market is afraid of.

As director I got to vacuum the crew bedrooms, as producer I carried out the garbage.

A small amount of Cobalt 60 was found near the middle of the plant property in the top 6 inches of soil near the vacuum breaker valve that spilled water in 2000. The finding was reported to the NRC and IDNS and none of the cobalt 60 flowed off the property or entered the groundwater.

You're not going to talk to your vacuum cleaning robot: in fact, you may never see your vacuum cleaning robot because, ideally, you come home every day and your floors are freshly vacuumed.

This doesn't need a vacuum but it does need a moisture barrier and that can be expensive. The biggest barrier to large scale production is simply cost. It costs very little to make a light bulb today.

You can't make an investment like this in a vacuum and think it's going to have its own gravity. Gravity comes with great mass. This is one piece of an effort to strengthen a whole region, because strong regions have strong cores.

There was a time I was very much blaming the way I felt on L.A, that it was a vacuum of creativity, of humor or anything organic, and I was really angry at the place. But then today I feel completely different - I love L.A.!

There will be a scarcity of expertise, but I wouldn't suggest people major in vacuum tubes, and there's a scarcity of vacuum tubes as well.

There's been a lot of shuffling of local government officials. With a vacuum of authority come an atmosphere of banditry and a sense of impunity.

It's a vacuum cleaner approach to virtually millions of communications an hour. Nobody knows what they're doing with it.

It's like downtown LA has been in a vacuum for the last quarter-century. The core has been ignored. But now the time for downtown has come. ... We saw solid fundamentals there - a huge opportunity in new urban housing.

Dawkins Law of the Conservation of Difficulty states that obscurantism in an academic subject expands to fill the vacuum of its intrinsic simplicity

Everybody agrees that we don't want a security vacuum in Kosovo.

That's the difference in intensity between the sound made by a vacuum cleaner and the sound of a motorcycle engine.

Every now and again you encounter a case that sort of shocks you, in terms of the moral vacuum that exists among those who are perpetrating crimes, and this is clearly one of those.

The (black) churches that have come forward have done a wonderful job of filling the cultural vacuum that existed.

There was a moment in time when Boston really did not have any opera. This rapid growth is really a response to a vacuum that existed.

The cosmological constant was a vacuum energy (the energy of empty space) that kept gravity from pulling the universe in on itself, ... A problem with the cosmological constant is that it is constant, with the same energy density, pressure, and equation of state over time. Dark energy, however, had to be negligible in the universe's earliest stages; otherwise the galaxies and all their stars would never have formed.

I hope the political vacuum doesn't go on for too long.

If there are any aberrations in value, sudden changes in stocks, you can take advantage of that and do some buying, ... Sometimes it happens in a vacuum that, when volume dries up, some desirable equities can be adversely affected in the short term.

If public officials just come out in a vacuum and tell people to leave, they're not going to do it. There has to be background level of information that reinforces what public officials tell people to do.

In this vacuum all we have out there are the comments from Volkswagen and that has put a bit of a downer on the market.

In our ludicrous efforts to 'change' and be perfect, we try to fashion a perfect world for ourselves. We start to imagine that we are actually in control of our world, which is further from reality than an all-parrot moon landing. The universe, our universe, is out of our control. We live on a speck drifting around in an infinite vacuum with countless trillions of other specks. Our world is in a perpetual state of perfect chaos and entropy, with everything falling apart and dying and being born haphazardly. Meanwhile, we try to make life as neat and clean and orderly as a computer research facility, when in fact it is more like a junkyard. It always has been, and it always will be, no matter how much fussing and sweating and striving we do to make it different.

In retrospect, I emotionally understand where Morgenthau is coming from, and I admire him for it. At the same time, Morgenthau's plan was too vindictive. In retrospect, if it had been instituted ... it would have left a vacuum for the Soviets.

In one case he took the nation in his hands and took the reins of government and gave us a sense of action. Katrina has been just the opposite. It has been a vacuum of leadership and a failure to take the nation and the people of the Gulf in his arms.

Invented for the way you clean, the Yellow Jacket offers the owner of a small home the convenience of a built-in central vacuum system for about $500 installed.

Insert earphones can boost the signal by as much as six to nine decibels. That's about the difference between the sound of a vacuum cleaner and a motorcycle. It's a significant difference.

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

Clearly there have been atrocities going on. Once we have achieved a situation where Yugoslav forces have withdrawn we cannot leave a humanitarian vacuum in Kosovo.

Calling snap elections that would create a political vacuum just to save face should be avoided.

I don't know how many African Americans are left in the city, but it's not that many. There is not enough labor to rebuild the city, and filling the vacuum are the Hispanics.

But through my interests in electron motion in vacuum tubes I discovered a need to describe trajectories of moving particles with equations.

He's like a big vacuum -- he smothers everything.