I invented an algorithm for starting micro turbo-molecular vacuum pumps to be used in science instruments on a future Mars rover.
Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a Barbie doll, a vacuum cleaner. We're all such products.
I wanted somebody who had a heart and a soul, because Joe Carroll is soulless. There was nothing in there. He was a vacuum of a man.
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.
I always have to be thinking about who's going to be singing this song, what the context is. I don't sit around just writing in a vacuum, ever.
Selfishness draws men into a spiritual vacuum where, absorbed in self service, they shut out all others.
Today the vacuum [of space] is not regarded as empty. It is a sea of dynamic energy, like the spray of foam near a turbulent waterfall.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
When a husband says, "I run things in my home" he may mean the washing machine, the dishwasher and the vacuum cleaner.
I know Roomba is a vacuum... But, whenever it's mentioned, my instinct is to be excited about a new fun party game involving rhythm and friends!
The state operates in a legal vacuum. There exists no contract between the state and its citizens.
Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.
No leader will fight for values, for principles, if their government is a value-free vacuum. Moral relativism is morally wrong.
A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment than the TV set.
The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.
Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.
Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.
We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.
And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
We tend to think of great thinkers and innovators as soloists, but the truth is that the greatest innovative thinking doesn't occur in a vacuum.
Peace is not merely a vacuum left by the ending of wars. It is the creation of two eternal principles, justice and freedom.
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawn mower, snowblower and vacuum cleaner.
All you have to do is see the way ISIS was created in the vacuum left by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama out of Iraq.
At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.
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.
We pulled out of Libya. Now look what's happened: a safe haven, a vacuum, ISIS training militants to hit in Tunisia.
Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.
If I'm stuck, I get up from my chair and I wash windows. Or... clean the bathroom. Or vacuum the attic. There's always something to be done.
By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
You almost have to force yourself to stay in a vacuum to become different - if you really want to be different.
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.
A bore is a vacuum cleaner of society, sucking up everything and giving nothing. Bores are always eager to be seen talking to you.
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.
When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.
People don't exist in a vacuum. They're a result of who raised them and who they love and who frustrates them.
Down inside we have a longing for God-what Pascal called "the vacuum which God left behind.
Ah, but I am more perceptive than most of the universe. Especially the parts of the universe that are vacuum.
The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.
If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be.
Did the destruction of one dream leave a vacuum that required filling with another? Is a broken heart more vulnerable?
The human heart by nature seeks after God. There is a spiritual vacuum in every man until it is filled by Christ.
Worry is to joy what a Hoover vacuum cleaner is to dirt: might as well attach your heart to a happiness-sucker and flip the switch.
Space is not empty. It is full, a plenum as opposed to a vacuum, and is the ground for the existence of everything, including ourselves. The universe is not separate from this cosmic sea of energy.
Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.
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.
When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
I spilled some vodka on the carpet, and I vacuumed it up, and the vacuum got drunk. I had to take the Hoover to detox.
REALITY, n. The dream of a mad philosopher. That which would remain in the cupel if one should assay a phantom. The nucleus of a vacuum.
If you don't get feedback from your performers and your audience, you're going to be working in a vacuum.
We are always influenced because we do not live in a vacuum together with our intentions. We are in a relationship with everything that occurs.
A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death.
In America , the media lives in a vacuum where they are able to not just criticize; they're able to destroy.
Psychoanalysis teaches one thing, he thought: Nothing ever happens in a vacuum. A single bad act can have all sorts of repercussions.
There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.
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