We need above all, I think, a certain remoteness from urban confusion.
An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.
I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty.
However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin their family in the United States.
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
The jarring change going from an urban environment to an extremely remote natural environment is extremely inspiring. It's constantly stimulating, it's like a slap in the face.
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it.
As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.
I found myself drawn to the remote Kimberley region of Australia - in the far Northwest corner of the country - our last frontier.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
At my advanced age, I know I am not an anti-Semite, not even vaguely or remotely, but others would seem to know better, as false accusers always do.
But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last.
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.
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
Mostly I use the O2 as an X terminal, however, running my apps on Linux and displaying remotely.
I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.
Make sure that the your remote control always lies with your own self and not in someone else's hands.
If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens.
