Quotes About Remote

He didn't want to think about the implications of this mysterious ability to see events that occurred in places where he wasn't physically present. What did they call it on those late night radio shows back in the twenty-first century? Oh yes, remote viewing.

One way of saving on energy use would be to do away with unnecessary transportation. For instance, people commute between work and home, or travel long distances to engage in business conferences. With the development of improved communications and increasing automation, it will become possible in the not-too-distant future, for people to control and maintain business operations and machinery at a distance.

Writers were mature men, solemn, remote, and usually dead.

When we shot 'The Lord of the Rings,' we had special permission to film in wild areas of New Zealand that could be accessed only by helicopter. They would drop us off and we would work all day, and they'd pick us up and take us out again.

This poor little one-horse town.

Beware thoughts that come in the night. They aren't turned properly; they come in askew, free of sense and restriction, deriving from the most remote of sources.

Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV.

There's this whole idea that you've got the blues and you're going to write. Bullshit. When I feel really bad, all I want to do is sit in front of the TV with the remote control and check out.

There are few places in my life that I've found more ruggedly beautiful than the Highlands of Scotland. The place is magical - it's so far north, so remote, that sometimes it feels like you've left this world and gone to another.

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

today we depend on the press for such essentially human things as gossip and anecdotes and we care about the private lives of people in very remote places.

I'm still blown away by how desolate Iceland can be, how deserted it is. It's very often like living on the moon.

THE SKY IS MORE IMPERSONAL than the sea.

something along the side of the TV that worked the volume or the channel changer.

the islands remained uninhabited and unpeopled, visited only by sailors under duress.

The image a lot of people have of me as detached, impassive, or remote is a persona that comes from years of being teased for every feeling I ever expressed.

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

Professional activities are dissected into precise assignments and discrete projects and then thrown into a virtual cloud of aspiring workers located anywhere in the world.

Time and Nemesis will do that which I would not, were it in my power remote or immediate. You will smile at this piece of prophecy - do so, but recollect it: it is justified by all human experience. No one was ever even the involuntary cause of great evils to others, without a requital: I have paid and am paying for mine - so will you.

We are under the spell always of what is distant from us. It is not in our nature to desire passionately what is near at hand.

It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of Tightness-it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

But under it all they were men, penetrating the land of desolation and mockery and silence, puny adventurers bent on colossal adventure, pitting themselves against the might of a world as remote and alien and pulseless as the abysses of space.

Everything is very quiet, the streets are never crowded, and the people one dislikes are out of town.