Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote… — Marc Garneau
Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture,… — John Updike
Be neither too remote nor too familiar. — Prince Charles
Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time… — Paolo Di Canio
Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what… — Milan Kundera
Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he… — Charles Lindbergh
Notice, for example, that people who talk about "the joys of childhood" are always adults. Only an adult, utterly remote from the reality of childhood,… — Russell Baker
Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human activities and the… — Havelock Ellis
Remote though your farm may be, It's something to be the lord of one green lizard-and free. — Juvenal
After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge… — Jacques Barzun
For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from… — Clive Barker
Anyone who has invented a better mousetrap, or the contemporary equivalent, can expect to be harassed by strangers demanding that you read their unpublished manuscripts… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling,… — Israel Shenker
This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control. — David Neeleman
Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States -… — Ken Salazar
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… — Andrew Niccol
I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some… — Sandra Steingraber
Fundamental physics is like an art more or less. It's completely non-practical, and you can't use it for anything. But it's about the universe and… — Yuri Milner
It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be… — Yuri Milner
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt… — Eva Zeisel

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379 authors contributed a total of 429 Remote Quotes, led by these top contributors: