Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

Beauty always has something remote. — Elias Canetti
Ignorance is less remote from the truth than prejudice. — Denis Diderot
A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something… — Leonard Cohen
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being… — Carl Clinton Van Doren
The central part of the state is more remote and less scenic, and there's a huge agricultural belt that stretches from the south of Lake… — Carl Hiaasen
I can't work without it [music]. And it has to be the right kind, because if it's not then I get into a bad mood.… — Cindy Sherman
What happens with fear is that probability doesn't matter very much. That is, once I have raised the possibility that something terrible can happen to… — Daniel Kahneman
Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control. — Eric Sykes
Rhesus monkeys as well as human adults and older children living in a remote Amazon village have been given comparison and addition tasks using arrays… — Elizabeth Spelke
About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals?… — Brian D. McLaren
It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he… — Arnold Palmer
One summer night, out on a flat headland, all but surrounded by the waters of the bay, the horizons were remote and distant rims on… — Rachel Carson
Eventually man, too, found his way back to the sea. Standing on its shores, he must have looked out upon it with wonder and curiosity,… — Rachel Carson
In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. — Sarah Orne Jewett
Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that… — Theodore Roosevelt
I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven.. — Richard Wiseman
Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip… — Karen Armstrong
But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful… — Jerry Garcia
I'm one of those people that picks up the remote control and just keep hitting constantly, even if I like the show I'm watching. — Gilbert Gottfried
Cancer cells come pre-programmed to execute a well-defined cascade of changes, seemingly designed to facilitate both their enhanced survival and their dissemination through the bloodstream.… — Paul Davies

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