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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
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
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
Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.
— Simone Elkeles
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
So long as atrocities remain remote, abstract, they will be tolerated, even by decent people.
— Howard Zinn
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
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
9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control!
— Jay Leno
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
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
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
Apostate, still thou err'st, nor end wilt findOffering, 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
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
— Aaron Brown
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
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 RemoteI 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
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 sitson 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
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
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 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
