#vacuum

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

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. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#because #becomes #comfortable #could #eclipse

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. ↗

— Naomi Klein

#fill #filled #hates #hope #politics

Poetic talent doesn't operate in a vacuum. There is a spirit of Polish poetry. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#poetic #poetry #polish #spirit #talent

Many have argued that a vacuum does not exist, others claim it exists only with difficulty in spite of the repugnance of nature; I know of no one who claims it easily exists without any resistance from nature. ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#argued #claim #claims #difficulty #does