Remote Quotes

429 quotes by 379 authors

This exchange marked the beginning of Mr. Malfoy's long campaign to have me removed from my post as headmaster of Hogwarts, and of mine to… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Whenever I start thinking of my love for a person, I am in the habit of immediately drawing radii from my love - from my… — Vladimir Nabokov
Come to think of it, that word (choice) shouldn't be applied to people's destinies. Ever. Choice should be relegated to TV and meals: You could… — J R Ward
The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles. — Paulo Coelho
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far… — Milan Kundera
On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. â€œHow could you be so stupid? I shrug, stung in spite of myself. â€œI… — Holly Black
Do you know where Jason is?â€ she asked Dmitri when they exited the morgue. Dmitri pressed the car remote to unlock the flame red Ferrari… — Nalini Singh
Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has… — J M Coetzee
I can't believe it's actually happening. This is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. Shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? In certain… — David Nicholls
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened… — Charlotte Bronte
After all, history is a type of fantasy. For all the primary source research, in the end, the past world the historian builds is as… — Ysabeau S. Wilce
Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control. — Simone Elkeles
To live (as I understand it) is to exist within a conception of time. But to remember is to vacate the very notion of time.… — David Mazzucchelli
I could distinguish the shape of her bosom, her arms, her thighs, just as I remember them now, just as now, when the Moon has… — Italo Calvino
For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;… — Virginia Woolf
So each had a private little sun for her soul to bask in; some dream, some affection, some hobby, or at least some remote and… — Thomas Hardy
Yeah sure,why not?"i said,making a mental note to get a good look at his wings. For all I knew, they were remote-controlled and duct taped… — James Patterson
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books… — Algernon Blackwood
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to… — Hans Christian Andersen
A reader's tastes are peculiar. Choosing books to read is like making your way down a remote and winding path. Your stops on that path… — Jane Smiley

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