Andrei Tarkovsky

An artist never works under ideal conditions. If they existed, his work wouldn't exist, for the artist doesn't live in a vacuum. Some sort of pressure must exist. The artist exists because the world is not perfect. Art would be useless if the world were perfect, as man wouldn't look for harmony but would simply live in it.

Russian Director

Sabaa Tahir

When you write your first book, you're writing in a vacuum; it doesn't matter how much time it takes. And then with the second book, you're on contract, and you have deadlines, and it's a little bit tougher. And also the expectations. You don't want to let your characters down.

Pakistani Writer

Hong Chau

My parents speak with an accent. A lot of people that I know speak with an accent. I have friends who speak with an accent. Accents in a vacuum aren't a problem; it's how you portray those characters and how well they're served in a script.

American Actress

Richard Quest

Working for CNN, you help set the agenda for decision makers and industry leaders simply by doing your job. What the network covers and how we cover it affects people. I am not naive enough to believe I work in some 'pure' news vacuum.

English Journalist

Khaled Hosseini

Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.

Afghani Novelist

Jim Clyburn

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.

American Politician

Hugh Prather

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.

American Writer

Payal Rohatgi

Sangram is my best friend. He loves me more than himself and his absence in my life has brought a vacuum in my life.

Indian Actress

Brian May

We do play to our audience. It's very important. You can't create music in a vacuum.

English Musician

Hannah Gadsby

Australian Comedian

Used in science to describe space completely devoid of matter, including air.

Physics Term

Metaphorically describes situations where something is lacking or absent.

Figurative Use

Vacuum refers specifically to the device used to suck up dust and dirt.

Cleaning Tool

To vacuum is a common task in maintaining a clean home environment.

Household Chore

Vacuuming is often done regularly to keep spaces tidy.

Regular Activity

When you vacuum, you remove all loose debris, not just visible particles.

Complete Action

Used to emphasize the significant effect of something missing in a system or structure.

Emptiness Impact

Implying a lack of leadership or governance in a social or political context.

Social and Political

 it supported his idea that weight was the deciding factor. A variation on the experiment used two tubes with one having a large bubble at the top. If Galileo's interpretation had been correct, the bigger vacuum in the second tube should have exerted more suction and lifted the mercury higher. But the level in both tubes was the same.

The history of the...

 atmosphere keeps you alive in the vacuum of space so can we do it are we up to the challenge we think so and I want to give you maximum mobility okay because Mars is tough why we going to Mars to search for the evidence of life okay past life four billion years ago but still it would rewrite all the

How to create a space...

 a heavy object and a light object, air friction aside, would hit the ground at the same instant. And that's because in Middle World, air friction is always there. If we'd evolved in a vacuum, we would expect them to hit the ground simultaneously. If we were bacteria,

Why the universe seems...

 and the vacuums inside early light bulbs that protected filaments from degrading. These vacuums are generally created with some version of what a vacuum cleaner does using high-powered pumps that create enough suction to remove as many stray atoms as possible.

Is it possible to create...

 And by studying how tardigrades survive prolonged exposure to the vacuum of outer space, scientists can generate clues about the environmental limits of life and how to safeguard astronauts. In the process, tardigrades could even help us answer a critical

Meet the tardigrade, the...

 The ensuing power vacuum led to a series of civil wars, during which Brutus, facing certain defeat, took his own life. Ironically, the ultimate result would be the opposite of what the conspirators had hoped to the end of the Republic

The great conspiracy...

 developed in a vacuum, often with no view towards describing any physical phenomena, have proven decades or even centuries later, to be the framework necessary to explain how the universe has been working all along.

Is math discovered or...

 thus, enabling fast current-switching. The ability to amplify signals also made the triode crucial for radio and long distance communication. But despite these advancements, vacuum tubes were unreliable and bulky.

How transistors work -...

 mother that's where my love of the natural world came from I've never inherited a nickel that I inherited a love the natural world in a respect respect for when I get out of the University I took a job so vacuum

50 Years Ago, This Was a...

 leave a political vacuum but now there is no one to intercede with the gods the Egyptians ordered world is in danger of descending into permanent chaos