Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability… — Douglas Rushkoff
The alcohol smell is on my fingers, cold and remote, piercing like a steel pin going in. It smells like white enamel basins. When I… — Margaret Atwood
In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret… — Sarah Orne Jewett
Pleasure to me is wonderâ€”the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the… — H P Lovecraft
Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that… — Douglas Adams
He felt like a man who, after straining his eyes to peer into the remote distance, finds what he was seeking at his very feet.… — Leo Tolstoy
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The fossil record implies trial and error, the inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with a Great Designer (though not a Designer of a… — Carl Sagan
I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot… — Andre Gide
The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of… — Arthur Schopenhauer
The mutual-aid tendency in man has so remote an origin, and is so deeply interwoven with all the past evolution of the human race, that… — Peter Kropotkin
All the black leather she needs is the E-Z boy recliner where her love is parked with one of his hands wrapped around a remote,… — Daphne Gottlieb
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. — Garrison Keillor
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Coordinating there Events and objects with remote events And vanished objects. Making ornaments Of accidents and possibilities. — Vladimir Nabokov
But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against… — Jack London
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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