Top 774 Remote Quotes & Sayings

It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects ; and sounds very remote and then very close ; flesh being gashed and blood sparting, a joint suddenly twisted - beneath all of which appears something very important, yet remote, to be just held in solitude.” — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

Terrorism is global and can come from even remote countries.

Space is our tool to take care of the world. From space, we know the Earth is fragile, and we can follow oil spills and forest fires, and monitor the environment and save it. The needs of remote communities and the needs of astronauts are similar. Canada is a country that is big and has a lot of people living in faraway places. Physicians in remote areas need to have contact with more senior colleagues. We depend on telehealth for advice, X-rays, labs. At the most simple technical level, space technology contributes to remote health care.

There is a remote tribe that worships the number zero. Is nothing sacred?

What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.

The ultrasound that has application not only in space for a long mission or for a mission to the Moon or Mars, but also in remote areas on the Earth. Not even just - I'm not even talking about expeditions like to the Antarctic, but just a remote area, a small town somewhere. The local doctor is not going to know everything, and so if that person can link in with a diagnostic ultrasound to the hospital in New York City through the internet, then they can do a very quick diagnosis of something that's wrong with someone that's in this remote area.

A small handgun makes any TV remote control.

Sally...can no longer think of love as a reality, or even as a possibility, however remote.

There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.

A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.

Thank goodness modern convenience is a thing of the remote future.

I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.

It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.

This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!

But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.

Even in a remote monastery, you may still be remote from the truth! To find the truth, all you need is a sound way of thinking.

The advantage of using airships in remote areas with little road infrastructure to support development is clear. Airships could ensure the delivery of humanitarian supplies to remote communities.

In the past, Ive visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldnt ordinarily explore.

Life has no remote get up and change it yourself.

It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control!

At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.

I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.

Remote and ineffectual don.

There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.

Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

Beauty always has something remote.

The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.

I will be a missionary in a remote village at some point.

I'm an Egyptologist. I'm a remote sensing specialist, and I'm a space archaeologist.

If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts.

I came from a remote village, I didn't know what running was, or the Olympics.

I like being outdoors a lot, and I come from a small village that's fairly remote.

Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free.

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

If cricketers from remote cities can play for India, then why can't Test cricket go to remote places? The idea is to promote the game.

Remote from human passions, remote even from the pitiful facts of nature, the generations have gradually created an ordered cosmos [mathematics], where pure thought can dwell in its natural home.

People who take no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants.

Only a fool took a remote from a god.

That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?

My grandparents lived with us. And I remember watching 'Doctor Who' with my granddad on his new telly. These were the days before remote controls but my granddad, being quite a resourceful sort of chap, had fashioned his own remote control - which was a length of bamboo pole with a bit of cork that he'd glued on the end.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice.

You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote.

I like being in charge of the remote control.

It is common to overlook what is near by keeping the eye fixed on something remote.

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

AT&T is now offering a new service that allows you to pay your bills through your TV screen by using your remote control. So instead of saying, "The check's in the mail," people are going to say, "Hey, I wanted to pay, but I couldn't find the remote."

Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.

A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun.

Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.