Remote Control Quotes

#1. It's so hard to go to war at home. Go to war, go home, repeat. And that is the future of warfare. Forget about remote control drones, there's going to be remote control tanks.

Andrew Niccol

#2. AT&T is now offering a new service that allows you to pay your bills through your TV screen by using your remote control. So instead of saying, "The check's in the mail," people are going to say, "Hey, I wanted to pay, but I couldn't find the remote."

Jay Leno

#3. Digital presentation is just television in public; we're all just getting together and watching TV without pointing the remote control at the screen.

Quentin Tarantino

#4. ...even good marriages sometimes involve flinging a remote control at the wall.

Ada Calhoun

#5. He emptied all his handheld video games and Josh's remote control cars, and called his grandma to tell her that all he wanted for his birthday in November was AA batteries.

Rainbow Rowell

#6. 9% would give up sex for the remote control. 91% has already given up sex for the remote control!

Jay Leno

#7. You say you've a life, but i see it as movie being directed by someone else, being edited often here and there.
life is when you've the remote control of it, and its been controled by the person you love.

Ayan Khan

#8. Don't let negative pictures play on the movie screen of your mind. You are the director and the audience. You are in charge. Take the remote control. Change the channel. If you let your imagination run wild, let it run wild in a positive direction.

Joel Osteen

#9. I have a cousin Ernie who buys stuff. He's got a big snowblower that's actually the biggest snowblower you can buy, with a remote control, so he doesn't even have to go outside. He's got the microwave and a satellite dish, it's all in one. He cooks and watches at the same time.

Louie Anderson

#10. Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'

Jennifer Damiano

#11. Life does not have a remote control; you need to get up and change it yourself.

Damien L. Malcolm

#12. That's all I need," I say. "Well ... I need the lamp. And the astray. And the remote control. And the paddleball game. And you, Dean Holder. But that's all I need

Colleen Hoover

#13. Life doesn't come with a remote control. If you don't like what's playing, get up and change the channel.
By unknown.

Lorelie Rozzano

#14. It was a sad and disappointing day when I discovered my Universal Remote Control did not, in fact, control the universe. (Not even remotely.) - MEME

Darynda Jones

#15. 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.

Gilbert Gottfried

#16. We took the brains out of the set-top box and put it in the cloud. Having our software in the cloud gives consumers the ability to click their remote control and navigate through thousands of choices in a simple and elegant way. That's magic.

Brian L. Roberts

#17. The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

Arnold Kling

#18. She has a strange, not unpleasant sense of disconnection from everyone, as if she is floating somewhere high above her head and operating her body by remote control. Stretch lips to smile. Fold palms of hands around pram handle. Tip head towards child in motherly fashion.

Liane Moriarty

#19. The first thing I did on my diet was take the batteries out of the remote control and make myself get up and change the channel. That's probably the hardest exercise I did.

Stephen Furst

#20. A small handgun makes any TV remote control.

David Letterman

#21. Obama's drone program, in fact, amounts to the largest unmanned aerial offensive ever conducted in military history: never have so few killed so many by remote control.

Michael Hastings

#22. What a leveller this remote-control gizmo was ... it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight ...

Salman Rushdie

#23. Until I became a parent, I thought children just naturally knew how to catch a ball, that catching was an instinctive biological reflex that all children are born with, like knowing how to operate a remote control or getting high fevers in distant airports.

Dave Barry

#24. Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?

Steven Wright

#25. I can't stand just sitting here not doing anything. You can't solve a problem by remote control.

Lisa Scottoline

#26. I like being in charge of the remote control.

Cilla Black

#27. Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.

Eric Sykes

#28. I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

Steven Wright

#29. It's as if some bored ethereal being is fiddling with the remote control to his imagination, clicking channel after channel without finding anything to capture his interest for very long.

C. Robert Cargill

#30. A new survey reveals that women would rather give up sex than give up the remote control for the TV. Men, on the other hand, would be willing to have sex with the remote for the TV.

Conan O'Brien

#31. Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

Roger Rosenblatt

#32. This is not a business where you can hand off and run by remote control.

David Neeleman

#33. I just need to do something new ... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Cecelia Ahern

#34. I think Syria is often covered by phone. You have to talk to activists. You have to try to read the tea leaves. You have to talk to government officials. It's remote-control reporting in a way.

Anthony Shadid

#35. When I went home ... I promised myself, I would take a cool shower and I would read. After a day spent dealing with others, television was just one more batch of voices to listen to; I'd rather have a book in my hands than the remote control.

Charlaine Harris

#36. 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.

Lucinda Williams

#37. Most Muslim women know it is fear and curiosity that cause people to stare. They know it is ignorance and stereotypes that cause people to suppose that a piece of material covering the hair strips a woman of the ability to speak English, pursue a career, work a remote control.

Randa Abdel-Fattah

#38. A lot of times when I buy a lot of toys, I get a little jealous and keep one or two for myself. So I've got a couple of drones. I've got a couple of remote-control cars. I like to have fun

Shaquille O'Neal

#39. 55% of all Americans lose their remote control 5 times a week. That means that they must see the same show for up to 3-4 minutes a time!

Jay Leno

#40. 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.

David E. Kelley

#41. These UFOs are interplanetary devices systematically observing the earth, either manned or under remote control, or both.

Benjamin W. Chidlaw

#42. Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click.

Scott Adams

#43. We'd already had the discussion about whether or not Jazz was allowed to move in.
I said yes, of course. At least when Jazz is around, May occasionally lets me have the remote control.

Seanan McGuire

#44. Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

Dave Barry

#45. One of the officials of the party had irritably decided that the President was clearly not in a mood to read the deliciously turned speech that had been written for him, and had flipped the switch on the remote-control device in his pocket.

Douglas Adams

#46. Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.

Aaron Brown

#47. We should look at the Twitter records of Andrew Fraser. Clearly, the ship was on remote control, because he spent all of his time on Twitter. He used to Twitter in the chamber. He used to Twitter at night. He used to Twitter probably in bed at home, but I am not going to go any further there.

Campbell Newman

#48. Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

Simone Elkeles

#49. You ever look for the remote control, but you can't find it, so you just decide, "Ah, guess I'm not watching TV. I'm not gonna take two steps and turn it on myself. I'll go to the gym if I'm going to work out."

Jim Gaffigan

#50. But love like that can be too big, too. It can be something you shouldn't be trusted to hold when you're the kind of person who drops the eggs and breaks the remote control.

Amy Garvey

#51. No one's been in the kitchen since he left it. On the table are his cup, Theo's empty water bottle and, beside it, the remote control. It's stil faintly surprising, this fidelity of objects, sometimes reassuring, sometimes sinister.

Ian McEwan

#52. While, naturally, he has to gauge risk, to read the elements, he still often bemoans the hardships of the past. He constantly puzzles over the role of remote influences, like the after-life. He wants to know why events happen as they do, how control is exercised from beyond understanding.

Peter Gray

#53. My husband hogs the remote," Shayla says. "He says it's because women control everything else." "Actually, it's instinct," Stuart says. "The part of the brain that's territorial is bigger in men than it is in women. I heard it on John Tesh.

Jodi Picoult

#54. What the United States call democracy is actually a vertical model of remote governance by oligarchs - economic barons and their political representatives. The result is that citizens in the United States have little control over what the U.S. government does.

S. Brian Willson

#55. People who feel the need to push and control tend to keep their feelings bottled up. As a result, they get shut down or remote, and their feelings come out in twisted, unhealthy ways. They become irritable, passive-aggressive, or volatile, for example.

Judith Orloff

#56. Has it not ... invariably been found that momentary passions, and immediate interests, have a more active and imperious control over human conduct than general or remote considerations of policy, utility and justice?

Alexander Hamilton

#57. The imagination of man is naturally sublime, delighted with whatever is remote and extraordinary, and running, without control, into the most distant parts of space and time in order to avoid the objects, which custom has rendered too familiar to it.

David Hume

#58. We want greatness, but we prefer it tamed and on a leash short enough for us to control it, yet long enough to allow it to retain some remote yet diminished flavor of greatness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#59. It's a drone nation where everything and everyone is remotely controlled.

Bryant McGill

#60. Marriage probably originated as a straightforward food-for-sex deal among foraging primates. Compatibility was not a big issue, nor, of course, was there any tension over who would control the remote.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#61. the women began traveling to remote villages, distributing articles that argued not just against "honor" killings but also against forced marriages and the pernicious way gossip is used in small communities to control the behavior of women and girls.

Geraldine Brooks

#62. He who controls the remote, controls the world

Julie Garwood