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

In some remote regions of Islam it is said, a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face. — Raymond Mortimer

It's a drone nation where everything and everyone is remotely controlled. — Bryant McGill

Many cloud experts will not want to relocate, so remote employment will be a key to acquiring talent. — Michael J. Kavis

The geologist takes up the history of the earth at the point where the archaeologist leaves it, and carries it further back into remote antiquity. — Bal Gangadhar Tilak

Words cannot be remote from reality when they create reality. — John Cowper Powys

Every problem has one immediate cause, many remote causes, long term and short term effects — Ikechukwu Joseph

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. — Garrison Keillor

That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness. — Henry Knox

I just need to do something new ... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons. — Cecelia Ahern

The hour concealed, and so remote the fear, Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. — Anonymous

A small handgun makes any TV remote control. — David Letterman

Is it because in my soul I'm just as much a murderer? he asked himself. Something remote, but burning, stung his soul. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

we don't live in Plato's Commonwealth, and when we can't have perfection we ought to comply with the measure that is least remote from it. — Bernard Bailyn

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page. — Thomas Pynchon

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

It was a magnificent setting in a remote part of the world. My kind of place. — Brian Hancock

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

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. — Thomas Jefferson

Independent India's leaders will neither use a foreign language nor rule from a remote place. — Vallabhbhai Patel

My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people. — Giles Foden

So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people. — Howard Zinn

It's square shaped... Roger mumbled, "Could be a remote detonator... — Justin Swapp

Any time a customer comes into contact with any aspect of a business, however remote, is an opportunity to form an impression. — Jan Carlzon

Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen. — Quentin Tarantino

After the bitching I'd done to Abe about going to remote, crappy places, I should have been excited about the prospect of going to Sin City. — Richelle Mead

I will go so far as to say that the writer who is not scared is happily unaware of the remote and tantalizing majesty of the medium. — John Steinbeck

remote work has opened the door to a new era of freedom and luxury. A brave new world beyond the industrial-age belief in The Office. — Jason Fried

There's a lunar eclipse late Friday." Alisha said. "I hope everybody has their emotional body armor ready. Things are about to get intense. — Lee Fishman

Present and yet remote, a living vision of that which has already been left far behind by the flowing streams of Time. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom. — John Milton

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

55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time! — Jay Leno

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

The law can seem remote, arcane, the stuff of specialists. But it isn't, because for those of us who live in democracies, the law begins with us. — Shereen El Feki

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. — Herman Melville

Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Suffice it to say that the LOR has usurped the place of my own work, now adorned with cobwebs and dust in a remote corner of my office. — Julie Schumacher

It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the universe. (Not even remotely.) - MEME — Darynda Jones

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

He had a small but well stocked library. He loved books; books are a remote but reliable friend. — Victor Hugo

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible. — George Leigh Mallory

I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy. — W. H. Auden

Still, the farther hills remained as untouched as the sea; high, remote, arid, dark and sterile, poisoned with the sun. — Patrick O'Brian

What interests me in writing a novel is taking really remote voices, characters, and stories and beginning to create some kind of web. — Nicole Krauss

For beauty with sorrow Is a burden hard to be borne: The evening light on the foam, and the swans, there; That music, remote, forlorn. — Walter De La Mare

For he could scarcely make them move together to grip a twig, and they seemed remote from his body and from him. — Jack London

In this age of remote-controlled pushbutton war, we must all try very, very hard to remain human beings. — Jane Fonda

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair. — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote. — Paul D. Boyer

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington. — Arnold Kling

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. — Confucius

Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt find
Offering, from the paths of truth remote. — John Milton

The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need. — Anne Sullivan

Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time. — Alain Gerbault

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

I will tell you what is poetry ...
It is a remote electronic claw picking up a stuffed bunny rabbit ... — Chelsey Minnis

Being the mother of a toddler, my emotions often changed like the channels on the television when my husband is holding the remote: Constantly. — Kathy Stock

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

Sex is a different medium, refracting time and sense, a biological hyperspace as remote from conscious existence as dreams, or as water is from air — Ian McEwan

The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. — Sargent Shriver

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

The desert lay in wait, more infinite than God, no less remote. — Debora Greger

I like being in charge of the remote control. — Cilla Black

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

I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric. — Lynn Flewelling

These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both. — Benjamin W. Chidlaw

It's remote! It's remote! It's uncontaminated! It's pure! It's a place where we can rule out that Muhammad got his ideas from others than God! — Patricia Crone

The Remote
I often think about you
when I'm lying alone in
my room with my mouth
open and the remote
lost somewhere in the bed. — Leonard Cohen

...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall. — Ada Calhoun

a great publicity is a high way to remote customers and a universal key to the gate of ignorance — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The cold, remote Faye. It's shit. — Kristen Ashley

Imogene always sits
on the remote. It's probably wedged between her butt cheeks."
"Should I go get a crowbar? — Kirsten Miller

A land even more remote, America, which is farther than death. — Halldor Laxness

I brought you to a remote mountain to take advantage of you.'
Tightening his hold around me, he rumbled, 'I wasn't complaining. — Ashlan Thomas

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

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

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 and dreamings. — Algernon Blackwood

I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control. — Steven Wright

What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life
the demon Thought. — Lord Byron

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them. — Kirby Wright

We laugh at others and we don't realize that someone will be just as justified in laughing at us on some not too remote day — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ... — Walter Pater

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor. — David Shields

Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Our gods are remote from us, Jean Louise. They must never descend to human level." "Is — Harper Lee

Antiquity is full of eulogies of another more remote antiquity. — Voltaire

When I was a child, we seemed to be living in a world remote from the rest of the world. But television has made a great difference to all of us. — Nadine Gordimer

It is only now and then in some very remote and backward agricultural district that an antiquarian may still discover a square house. — Edwin A. Abbott

Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness. — Wilbur Smith

If you are in a remote desert island, let your best hope be your own efforts to build a ship instead of waiting for a ship to appear among the fogs! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine. — Albion Fellows Bacon

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world. — Zhuangzi

The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis. — Margaret Heffernan

On mobile phones: "It looks like a TV remote fucked a little typewriter and this is the bastard offspring — Richard Kadrey

I found myself daydreaming of homesteading in the wilderness on a remote mountain somewhere. — Gordon Blaine

I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier. — Brendan Fletcher