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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 like being in charge of the remote control.
Movie stars are now less remote, less fantasized.
Love as intense as ice, love as remote as blackness.
That vision of a common culture is now simply a remote wistfulness.
I'm remote from most technology to the point that I'm kind of Amish.
This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.
Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
My home town is very small and very remote and we don't have a movie house.
I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.
I'm an Egyptologist. I'm a remote sensing specialist, and I'm a space archaeologist.
At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.
I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
There are people who don't like popularity. It's much better to be exclusive and remote.
Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
It's just fantastic to go out and meet people in the world and get to really remote places.
About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.
There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
The geographical isolation and lack of television made world happenings and problems seem remote.
I find it difficult to speak in remote places because it is so hot and dusty that I tend to choke.
Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.
I believe in public ownership, but I have never favoured the remote nationalised model of the postwar era.
I have a lot of gadgets, remote controls for everything - the curtains, pool cover - it's like The Jetsons!
I don't have to walk around in hats or find remote places to go for lunch! I don't get recognised that often.
My mother would drag me to remote clinics to show the indigenous Dayaks what a healthy baby should look like.
I know that not many people can go to the Marshall Islands. It is really one of the most remote places on earth.
I was one of those kids that would take apart the remote control and take all the wheels off my little toy cars.
Because you are seen on the screen, whether big or small, the people in remote places are in complete awe of you.
The wrong things are predominantly stressed in the schools - things remote from the student's experience and need.
Like most writers, I read constantly. I used to hide in remote parts of the yard and house so I could read in peace.
I am restless. I don't mind leaving this comfortable, static life. I could live a year on my own in a remote village.
For vacation, I like going to places I've never been before. I've gone to some remote places, like the Arctic Circle.
Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.
I come from a very small city in a rather remote part of America, where writers simply weren't part of the daily fabric.
If you read about millions of people doing this and millions of people doing that, history seems remote and inaccessible.
To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
Inconvenience yourself: ditch the remote, the garage door opener, the leaf-blower; buy a bike, broom, rake, and snow shovel.
In Paris, the people go in the Metro, they move, they go to their offices, 8 a.m. in the morning - it's like remote control.
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.
Often the presence of mind and energy of a person remote from the spotlight decide the course of history for centuries to come.
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.
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.
One of the secret benefits of using remote workers is that the work itself becomes the yardstick to judge someone's performance.
I think politics often seems remote, and anything we can do to show more of the workings - how you make the sausage - is useful.
My father worked in agriculture, and I got to travel round remote rural areas with him and see a bit of the landscape and people.
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
In some shape or form, we do have an emotional connection to our head of state, even if, for the most part, they seem very remote.
