Vacuum Quotes

You can only make political music if you have a context. . . . You cannot make political music in a vacuum. It'd be like me writing songs now about Margaret Thatcher. It'd just make no sense. But I think in the wake of 9-11 people are trying to articulate their feelings. - Billy Bragg

You always draw on your experiences with live audiences to know how to do comedy on films. You're working for a laugh that may or may not come six months later, but you're working in a vacuum at the time you are doing it. - Theodore Bikel

Working together with other agencies, you've got to strengthen those relationships. It can't be done in a vacuum. If everyone takes their part and really works to do it, it's going to make a lot better response in the long run. - Eddie Ivy

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. - Robert Pitofsky

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. - Hoshyar Zebari

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

While we are conscious of the view that further confidence needs to be established, we also know that time alone is not enough: trust will not build itself in the absence of positive engagement by all parties. Everyone in Northern Ireland is aware of the dangers of a political vacuum. - Bertie Ahern

While millions of consumers are turning to natural medicines for relief, many of them have no idea that the government doesn't require that they be tested for how safe they are or how well they work. In order to fill this information vacuum, we are adding Natural Medicine Ratings to our Consumer Reports Medical Guide, so that the public now for the first time has access to a trusted, independent, and unbiased resource that can help them make more informed decisions. - Jim Guest

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1-1 2 tons. - Unknown

When you're in business for yourself, the buck stops with you. You don't operate in a vacuum. You have to operate in the community. - Larry Jones