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Quotes About Remote

I wish life was a remote. Play the easy times. Pause the good times. Fast forward the bullsh... Rewind the memories.
~ Unknown
Ethan was partaking in that greatest of white-collar lies, "working from home," and not feeling at all bad about it. He
~ Marcus Sakey
I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.
~ Steven Wright
Martin Fowler NoSQL Distilled: "In general, with remote communication you want to reduce the number of round trips involved in the interaction, so it's useful to be able to put a rich structure of information into a single request or response." Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" "Due to the latency costs of remote calls, it's better to err on the side of sending too much data than have to make multiple calls.
~ Martin Fowler
There is another sort of beauty playing always about the Pueblo country, beauty of cloud and rain and split sunlight... Everywhere peace, impenetrable timelessness of peace, as though the pueblo and all it contains were shut in a glassy fourth dimension, near and at the same time inaccessibly remote.
~ Unknown
Also, I don't really keep up with the news. I watched CNN once, but that was only because I couldn't get to the remote control without dislodging the catheter.
~ Unknown
I see his eyes where petals part tired, remote, another coast.
~ Unknown
Only the most extraordinary men can choose the remote cliffs as their graveyards; others are always condemned to nearby city gardens!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The path of duty lies in what is near, and man seeks for it in what is remote.
~ Mencius
To them all, Beldame represented the fair and possible reward for distress, misfortune, and labor in this world—it was to them a heaven on earth, and resembled the other, preached-of heaven in that it was bright, remote, timeless, and empty.
~ Michael McDowell
Pliny considered the water people and he decided they were not worth the bother of conquering. Fish, he wrote, was all they had.1 Seven centuries later opinions had not much changed. Radbodo, Bishop of Utrecht, was most uncharitable about the Frisians, the people of these marshes: he wrote that they lived in water like fish and they rarely went anywhere except by boat. They were also crude, barbarous and remote: sodden provincials.
~ Unknown
in a county where romantic partners were as scarce as yaks.
~ Nancy Pickard
Although remote, the park can be busy during summer days. Savvy visitors know to camp out or at least arrange to be on-site at dusk:
~ Unknown
Job happiness is directly proportional to the distance you are from the home office.
~ Nelson DeMille
Why, then, make a show of the poverty of our life and our sad imperfection, unearthing people from the backwoods, from remote corners of the state? But what if this is in the writer's nature, and his own imperfection grieves him so, and the makeup of his talent is such, that he can only portray the poverty of our life, unearthing people from the backwoods, from the remote corners of the state! So here we are again in the backwoods, again we have come out in some corner!
~ Nikolai Gogol
But in real life, the ideal Parisian woman is calm, discreet, a bit remote, and extremely decisive.
~ Pamela Druckerman
Now you're sure we are not going to be murdered?" Call Me Steve says, actually looking a bit nervous. "Prom night. Group of diverse teens. Remote cabin…
~ Patrick Ness
He didn't know a thing about her, not even after ten years, but she loved the air of knowingness; the flattery that didn't obligate her. And she liked his somewhat battered face, the close-fitting English suits he bought from a London salesman who stopped at a mid-town hotel each year to take orders, the Italian shoes he said were part of his seducer's costume. He wasn't a seducer. He was remote. He was like a man preceded into a room by acrobats.
~ Paula Fox
Now in those days, when there was no king in Israel, a Levite who lived in the remote hill country of Ephraim took for himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
~ Judges 19:1