Vacuums Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Horse, Oats, Tree

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• I had a terrible temper, after all, and though it rarely erupted, when it did it frightened me and anyone near its epicenter. It was the only crack, but a disturbing one, in the otherwise vacuum-sealed casing of my behavior.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Cracks, Behavior, Frightened

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). “An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness”, p.20, Pan Macmillan

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• Like some kind of strange vacuum cleaner I tried to console him. I recited the same old litanies that you say to people when you try to help their broken hearts, but words can't help at all. It's just the sound of another human voice that makes the only difference. There's nothing you're ever going to say that's going to make anybody happy when they're feeling shitty about losing somebody that they love.

  Richard Brautigan

  Heart, Voice, Differences

  Richard Brautigan (1995). “Revenge of the Lawn, The Abortion, So the Wind Won't Blow It All Away”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Because of social pressure, individualism is rejected by most people in favor of conformity. Thus the individual relies mainly upon the actions of others and neglects the meaning of his own personal life. Hence he sees his own life as meaningless and falls into the “existential vacuum” feeling inner void. Progressive automation causes increasing alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and suicide.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Suicide, Fall, People

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• Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Dream, Heart, Broken

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• My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

  Jay Asher

  Heart, Process, Collapse

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.159, Penguin

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• It's amazing that something only an atom thick can be an impenetrable barrier. You can have gas on one side and vacuum or liquid on the other, and with a wall only one atom thick, nothing would go through it.

  Paul McEuen

  Wall, Atoms, Sides

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• A lot of good and regular art gets made because of who you talk to. No one is immune to human contact and art is not made in a vacuum.

  R. B. Kitaj

  Art, Humanity, Made

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• I have no fresh-from-the-oven mother-daughter recollections - only the daily creaking of cans being opened and the sucking sound of gelatinous vegetables splurting from their tin-encased vacuums. Her kitchen was filled with smoke and impatience. ... And so I grew up finding my own path, frying what could not be boiled, winging my way through life without recipes.

  Patricia J. Williams

  Daughter, Mother, Vegetables

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• My personal belief is we should not bow to any object. But Islam was aware of this human weakness and fulfilled that need through Haj to kiss a stone. A stone is a stone but the vacuum was filled and it became the holiest object. I have performed Haj and seen the devotion of people braving stampedes only to kiss that stone.

  Asghar Ali Engineer

  Kissing, People, Islam

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Every great creative idea, formulated as a philosophy, has a social setting - in time, in a geographical location, in a political economy, in a matrix of interests and knowledge. It is not a free-swinging phenomenon like a balloon without moorings. It is not produced in a vacuum and, being creative, it does not work in a vacuum. Nurtured on things experienced and things known, it reaches out toward the unknown like a flower on a stalk growing out of the soil.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Philosophy, Flower, Ideas

  Mary Ritter Beard, Ann J. Lane (1977). “Making Women's History: The Essential Mary Ritter Beard”, p.168, Feminist Press at CUNY

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• Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for the sufficient reason that the self is a theomorphic creature - one whose morphe (form) is theos - God encased within it. Having been created in the imago Dei, the image God, all human beings have a God-shaped vacuum built into their hearts. Since nature abhors a vacuum, people keep trying to fill the one inside them.

  Huston Smith

  Heart, Eye, Faith Religion

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• The way we use technology is completely wasteful.   We duplicate many vacuum cleaners, tools; In the future we will make the best of equipment and make it available to everyone.

  Jacque Fresco

  Technology, Tools, Use

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• 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

  Successful, Men, Doors

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2001). “The Essential Galbraith”, p.186, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was a vacuum in investigation, and the press began to try men in the most effective court in the country.

  Daniel Schorr

  Country, Men, Trying

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• Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

  Margaret Halsey

  Father, Sleep, Sound

  Margaret Halsey (1944). “Some of My Best Friends are Soldiers: A Kind of Novel”, New York : Simon and Schuster

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• Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Speculation

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• One of the most basic human instincts is the need to decorate. Nothing is exempt - the body, the objects one uses, from intimate to monumental, and all personal and ceremonial space. It is an instinct that responds ... to some deep inner urge that has been variously described as the horror of a vacuum and the need to put one's imprint on at least one small segment of the world.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Clothes, Space, Needs

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “ARCHITECTURE, ANYONE?”, Random House

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• Was it possible that a bustling display of energy might only be a camouflage for a spiritual vacuum? The thought so impressed me that I mentioned it next day to the French purser, at whose table I was sitting. He nodded his agreement. "Stevenson is right," he said. "Indeed, if you will pardon my saying so, the idea applies particularly to you Americans. A lot of your countrymen keep so busy getting things done that they reach the end of their lives without ever having lived at all."

  Arthur Gordon Webster

  Spiritual, Agreement, Ideas

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• The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.

  Rich Hall

  Running, Humorous, Giving

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• Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

  Vanna Bonta

  People, Garbage

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• The modern concept of the vacuum of space, confirmed every day by experiment, is a relativistic ether.

  Robert B. Laughlin

  Space, Modern, Experiments

  Robert B. Laughlin (2008). “A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down”, p.100, Basic Books

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• Speeches in our culture are the vacuum that fills a vacuum.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Culture, Oratory, Speech

  984 Speech at the American University, Washington DC. Quoted in Time magazine, 18 Jun.

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• I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  Alice James

  Dream, Giving Up, Reality

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• We don't grow up in vacuums. We grow up in societies.

  Asne Seierstad

  Growing Up, Grows

  Source: www.pbs.org

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