In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men look for it in what is remote.
The path of duty lies in what is near at hand, but men seek for it in what is remote.
As long as espionage is less expensive than remotely controlling people’s brains, CIA will continue to remotely control people’s brains.
It gets harder and harder to succeed and find audiences with the 500-channel universe, the remote control, and people being so trigger happy with that remote control. It just gets harder to get a foothold.
[Luke is practicing lightsaber drills against a remote] Han Solo: Good against remotes is one thing. Good against the living, that's something else.
But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness.
I have not met, in Afghanistan, in even the most remote community, anybody who does not want a say in who governs them. Most remote community, I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.
Why go to remote parts of the world? If they’re remote, just turn them on and watch them on your couch.
A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-aw...
But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space; the sense also of extreme fixity in passing objects; and sounds very remote and then very cl...
Forget 'full of myself,' I'm not remotely impressed with myself.
There are so few representations of women that look remotely real in scripted television.
Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone who opens an atlas wants everything at once, witho...
[Steve opens the window next to the neighbor's house] Steve: We've got a good game going on here. Ben Tuthill: My kids wanna watch Mr. Rogers. Steve: I don't care what you're watching Ben, just show a little mercy with that thing! Ben Tuthill: Move y...
This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
The spirits of children are remote and wise...
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
I like being in charge of the remote control.
