#vacuum

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body. ↗

— James Larkin

#above #alien #all things #body #cancer

Nature abhors a vacuum. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#nature #vacuum

And we had the perhaps unfair advantage of not having to worry about what an audience was gonna think. We were in a vacuum. We were making little short films, really. ↗

— Rick Moranis

#advantage #audience #films #gonna #had

I think it's vital to have something outside your acting to keep you rooted in the real world, and help you fill the vacuum. If you have nothing else, it can be unhealthy. For me being a Christian has been invaluable: it simply means acting isn't the centre of my life. ↗

— David Oyelowo

#been #being #centre #christian #else

If it were possible to have a life absolutely free from every feeling of sin, what a terrifying vacuum it would be. ↗

— Cesare Pavese

#absolutely free #every #feeling #free #life

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#definite #does #exactly #exist #function

Do you know what I like about your program? Even when I'm running the vacuum, I can understand it. ↗

— Thelma Ritter

#do you know #even #i #i can #know

I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#along #crawl #forged #hacked #highway

The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition. ↗

— Boris Johnson

#just #lib #surrounded #vacuum #vast

I think going into 'New Moon,' I knew the characters better. I knew the world better and I knew the actors who would be playing these roles. I had a sense of their rhythms and tones. 'Twilight' I was writing in a vacuum. We hadn't cast it yet. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#cast #characters #going #had #hadn