“Have you ever heard of anybody buying a vacuum cleaner at a vacuum cleaner store?" "One of the unsolved mysteries of the universe," Packard adds.”
“Spaghetti can be eaten most successfully if you inhale it like a vacuum cleaner.”
“Shotgunning anybody in this room would be the moral equivalent of killing a car, a vacuum cleaner, a Barbie doll. Erasing a computer disk. Burning a Book. Probably that goes for killing anybody in the world. We're all such products.”
“Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets”
“I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.”
“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.”