Remotes Quotes

#1. I think TV remotes should have a button that allows you to kill the person on the screen.

George Carlin

#2. Don't you have a television?" She worked her magic and turned on the news. Not pointing out that one of the remotes he'd been trying to use was her portable phone.

Annie Nicholas

#3. In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's baseball. But there is also a predetermined intent in terms of what is reported and how it is reported, and the degree to which a story is pushed. Both have bad effects.

Robert Kane Pappas

#4. A lot of bands were doing remotes from ballrooms around the country.

Lee Konitz

#5. We eat when we're full, and we hoard all the rest. With our hands on remotes, we say, yes, we're the best.

Alanis Morissette

#6. Why does turning on a TV these days require three remotes with ninety buttons? Why?

Helen Fielding

#7. This wasn't how they talked. They threw things at each other. Insults, jokes, sometimes even remotes. They made war and made peace and made up and made out. They didn't do things like set ground rules. They didn't do feelings talk. They didn't get it out in the open.

Kami Garcia

#8. One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes from some of the most famous ballrooms throughout the country.

Nick Clooney

#9. I love detail, like drawing what's on top of someone's coffee table. Maybe there's a little bowl of butterscotch candies on it, next to the four TV remotes.

Roz Chast

#10. We live a pretty real life within our Hollywood selves. I'm not working 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, by any means.

Rhea Perlman

#11. Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes.

Victor Hugo

#12. What did I hope for, what did I expect, what rich future did I foresee, when the phantom of my first love, rising up for an instant, barely called forth one sigh, one mournful sentiment?

Ivan Turgenev

#13. So Pabrai added the following checkpoint to his list: when analysing a company, stop and confirm that you've asked yourself whether the revenues might be overstated or understated due to boom or bust conditions.

Atul Gawande

#14. Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

Jim Bouton

#15. Voices
Voices in my head,
Chanting, 'Kisses. Bread.
Prove yourself. Fight. Shove.
Learn. Earn. Look for love',
Drown a lesser voice,
Silent now of choice:
'Breathe in peace, and be
Still, for once, like me'.

Vikram Seth

#16. Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#17. Neurologically, I'm a quadriplegic, so virtually everything about my work has been driven by my learning disabilities, which are quite severe, and my lack of facial recognition, which I'm sure is what drove me to paint portraits in the first place.

Chuck Close

#18. A lot of people don't know the brain is 85% water, so anything that dehydrates you like caffeine or alcohol is bad for the brain.

Daniel Amen