Remotely Quotations

I live in New Orleans, because it's the strangest city in the United States. It has the highest murder rate in the country, the highest incarceration rate, and often we have to boil our drinking water, but there's nowhere else remotely like it.

I am perfectly conscious that this contempt and hatred underlies the general tone of the community towards us, and yet when I even remotely hint at the fact that we are not a favorite people I am accused of stirring up strife and setting barriers between the two sects.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the rock wallaby. If you're going to interpret your life pursuant to an utterly irrational dogma, why can't it have a cute mascot? Rock wallabies really are fabulous animals, and in any remotely just world, they would have their own star sign.

I'm a good communicator, and I'm a good translator. I can talk to engineers; I can talk to people for whom technology is not remotely interesting or even maybe scary - things like that.

More and more, modern warfare will be about people sitting in bunkers in front of computer screens, whether remotely piloted aircraft or cyber weapons.

I tend to avoid things like award shows and panels and interviews, not remotely because I feel I'm above them or wish to cultivate the image of the intriguing recluse. I'm just not very good at them.

I think it's true for men and for women, if you are even remotely attractive, people will assume you're just another pretty face and you don't have the work ethic or the talent to put in the time to flesh out a career.

The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.

It didn't seem remotely possible. I had no idea how people got those jobs, I didn't know what the steps were, it never even dawned on me. It seemed so outside the realm of possibility.

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'

Celebrity these days is completely for sale; it's not remotely mysterious. But there's something that remains glamorous and mysterious about royalty.

I cry at anything remotely touching - smile at me warmly and I'm off... television also does it, everything from 'X-Factor' to cereal commercials. I cry when I am tired. I also cry when I laugh.

Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society, and, as I've often said, people who are excluded from society tend to express themselves in ways not acceptable to society.

I think the whole issue of a debt ceiling makes no sense to me whatsoever. Anybody who is remotely adroit at arithmetic doesn't need a debt ceiling to tell you where you are.

Footage of people camped out at Best Buy or elsewhere is not remotely a celebration. Rather, it's a reminder of just how economically distressed a large percentage of our populace is.

I think what's exciting about playing a villain - particularly a villain who's totally unapologetic about their evil intentions - is that it's not anything remotely like what you get to do in real life. You're never allowed to be evil and not feel bad about it afterwards, let alone be evil, period.

United is better positioned today than anyone thought remotely possible three years ago, ... We have earned the opportunity to compete and we are moving forward.

There are some people I can't send an email to. At home, I have Road Runner as an ISP, and wasn't even able to remotely connect in order to manage our servers.

There are some people I can't send an e-mail to, ... At home, I have Road Runner as an ISP, and wasn't even able to remotely connect in order to manage our servers.

Since theological propositions are scientifically meaningless, those of us of pragmatic disposition simply won't buy such dubious merchandise. . . . Maybe -- remotely -- there might be something in such promotions, as there might be something in the talking dogs and the stocks in Arabian tapioca mines that W.C. Fields once sold in his comedies, but we suspect that we recognize a con game in operation. At least, we want to hear the dog talk or see the tapioca ore before we buy into such deals.

Since her husband is down in the polls, she's picking up the slack. There's no one remotely associated with the administration who is at the popularity level that she's at now.

No one is anywhere near 60, and any measure in the Senate that is even remotely controversial now require you to get 60, not just 51, ... So I think just as the situation is now, it will require bipartisan cooperation to advance any agenda." ()

Nobody would ever, ever get even remotely lippy about the Islanders with me, or there'd be bloodshed on the set of 'Entourage.' Everybody knows that you don't even go there.

Nothing in my 26 years on Wall Street or my six years in government suggests that there is any predictive capability even remotely reliable enough for such a system, ... In addition, the early warning itself could create precisely the instability and even panic that such a system is designed to prevent.

Positive psychology is not remotely intended to replace therapy or pharmacology. So when depressed, anxious or in panic or post-traumatic stress disorder, I am all for therapies that will work. Positive psychology is another arrow in the quiver of public policy and psychology through which we can raise wellbeing above zero.

I am beyond critical of my own work. I always tell actors they have to watch themselves 4-7 times in a given scene before they can be remotely objective.

Given the prolonged work stoppage and the league's TV ratings history, no financial model even remotely supports the contract terms offered.

He's constantly reinventing himself. 'Romance,' for example, is a courtroom drama. You can find nothing else even remotely like that anywhere in his whole canon.

He demolished people . . . . You either loved him or you hated him, but there was no one remotely like him, except, maybe, Lucifer.

key to a deeper set of potential threats that can remotely run any program on your machine.

It is likely that additional damage will be reported as underwater damage assessments are completed. These have been delayed because of overwhelmed support resources, such as diving equipment, support vessels, and remotely operated vehicles.

I think there is nothing remotely gay about classic Hollywood westerns.

It could very easily be double-digit-over-par to win. If they make it remotely close to USGA standards, the course will be very close to unplayable.

We have not faced anything close or remotely like this team.

When you're pregnant, you go out and buy every single book; you have this stack of books on your nightstand, but there was nothing that was preparing me for anything even remotely resembling what my life was going to look like.

Whereas a musician is luckier; a lot of times, the reflection of what he is as a human being is not even remotely carried through in what he plays.

There are over 2,000 direct clones of the Groupon business model. However, there's an equal amount of proof that the barriers to success are enormous. In spite of all those competitors, only a handful are remotely relevant.

We worked very hard to build and sustain our relationship with the league and would have liked to continue. However, given the prolonged work stoppage and the league's TV ratings history, no financial model even remotely supports the contract terms offered. We wish the NHL all the best.

Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.

We were in love with 'Mean Streets' and 'Taxi Driver.' We had no idea why nothing remotely like that was done in Denmark.

to stay away from a useless election, an election that does not even remotely attend to the national crisis.

There is nothing here that looks remotely inflationary,

We're very pleased but not surprised, as there's never been any funding of anything remotely related to terrorist activities.

We're devastated. In 30 years we've never had anything remotely like this happen. You worry about (it), you would expect this kind of thing on the midnight shift. But this was broad daylight on a Monday morning. There's still a body in there.

Every IT function, except maybe the physical help desk, can be performed remotely at this point.

And when you say DNA, you mean anyone who's remotely a suspect may have been in the apartment has been tested and no match? ...to DNA found at the scene.

During decompression of RAR files Symantec is vulnerable to multiple heap overflows allowing attackers complete control of the system(s) being protected. These vulnerabilities can be exploited remotely without user interaction in default configurations through common protocols.

There's no situation I've been in, before or since, that even would remotely approach that one for negativity and affecting the overall focus of the team. Not within 100 miles. It touched every single person in the building, every secretary, every ball boy. I felt badly for everyone involved.

There's no way that I remotely tried to impugn his character,

There's nothing remotely interesting to me about marketing music as a product.

The winning names were not even remotely names I would have chosen or invented.

The whole world is tense. Everybody gets the international news. There's been no American comedy at all that even remotely addresses the subject in any way. My goal isn't to solve the world's problems. My character wasn't even able to do his assignment. But the premise of wanting to find out about somebody -- other than the stuff that the CIA will tell you -- there's no hope unless we do that.

These remotely controlled in vivo robots provide the surgeon with an enhanced field of view from arbitrary angles, as well as provide dexterous manipulators not constrained by small incisions in the abdominal wall.

I've never experienced anything remotely like this. It's been a very emotional experience to get here. This is not what this is supposed to be about. A lot of us are upset.

Songs that aren't even remotely connected to Christmas are now officially canonized Christmas tunes. 'Frosty the Snowman,' 'Jingle Bells' and 'Winter Wonderland' never mention anything religious but are still notches in Christmas' belt of musical dominance.

People do not have a lot of time on their hands. The ability to order groceries remotely has enormous value.

Normally it's day by day, but, seriously, it's minute by minute around here. I have no clue. I haven't had one person say anything remotely close to what's going on.

Anyone who worked with Michael knows what a great room-jarring laugh he had. He was your best audience for anything remotely funny.

Anybody remotely interesting is mad, in some way or another.

are not remotely on the same scale as the U.S..

Anything remotely close will be enough. I'm looking forward to noticing the sense of wonder in the eyes of these young adults, whether that be in performance in a concert, on a street some place or coming back from a home stay.

As I told the league, I respect their opinion, but we've got an injured player who's already missed three games and he's likely going to miss six. The punishment is not remotely close to what it should be.

This is a peaceful community, ... I've been here seven years now and nothing remotely close to this has ever happened.

There was no one ever in American life who was remotely like Truman Capote. Small wonder, then, if people are still fascinated by him.

As we indicated earlier, we believe the company's guidance of 30 percent revenue growth is not even remotely realistic,

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my days and nights in a pair of scrubs. The hard truth was I did not remotely want to be a surgeon. I actually just wanted to be on 'Grey's Anatomy.'

It's not remotely sentimental, you know what I mean. It's brutally honest, and I think often hilarious, but it's a sad movie, it's sad and truthful.

For IT managers with tens of thousands of desktops, such a capability would be huge, ... If you have one platform on the hardware level, it will be so much easier to load a machine or remotely patch it.

It's funny what actors take issue with. Some won't do parts where animals are in jeopardy; some won't ever play anyone remotely unlikable - 'Heroes only, please.' Some won't do violence. I have no such qualms.

It's hard to find anything even remotely good about these numbers. This is pretty much going to quash any reason to buy the dollar.

It now goes beyond just being a tool for a system manager and will allow a business-line manager to remotely monitor Web storefront traffic, look at real-time sales database information and so on.

Nothing has been discussed that is remotely controversial about my past involvement with Devco. Even if I hadn't stepped down as chairman, Devco would not be a conflict of interest.

The two situations are not even remotely related - except to the extent that both of us got hit over the head, ... But he got hit over the head for things he did while he was in office. I got hit in the head by some things that happened when I was running a business.

The two situations are not even remotely related -- except to the extent that both of us got hit over the head, ... But he got hit over the head for things he did while he was in office. I got hit in the head by some things that happened when I was running a business.

They've never spent anything even remotely on this scale. So the real question is going to be what kind of controls are in place. There are going to be fraudsters coming out of the woodwork.

I'm pursuing it, because we are responsible for it. But we definitely aren't going anywhere remotely close to $2,000. I'm telling you. If they want to hose us, it would be fifty bucks.

I'm kind of overwhelmed right now. I've been fortunate to win tournaments in my life but nothing remotely close to this.

I had never remotely heard anything like that,

I never did that. I don't think I did anything remotely like that.

If you can make it so that I could touch somebody remotely through a wearable because it has haptic feedback - like, I could give a hug and it would touch you or pinch you - that would be killer.

If you're in a successful band, you tend to fall into a role. But I'm not remotely laddish. I'm a grown-up. I'm vegan and teetotal. I run 50 miles a week, listening to Franz Ferdinand and the Four Tops at top volume.

If you are the owner of a factory employing 500 people, on Monday you talk to any of them about soccer, and that's completely unifying. Italy doesn't have very much in terms of national culture like that. ... You have Hollywood and all the stars, we don't have anything remotely (like that). Soccer compensates.

I haven't seen anybody who remotely looks to be out of shape. Everybody looks good.

I don't recall having, in recent memory, anything remotely resembling this kind of an event where the need is to bring back a group of people dispersed by a calamity. It signifies not only a healing for their symphony and what they've worked for. It also represents the larger community of New Orleans musicians. That's exactly what people there are wanting to do. They want to put their community back together. And that community needs to heal with what the arts can give the heart and soul.

I don't think the quality of video over the Internet comes remotely close to what you can get on a TV in a high-definition format. But it's smart for the networks to do all this testing to see what consumers will ultimately embrace.

I'd tell her, 'Cover your tracks. Accentuate the positive. Appreciate things. Just know that every single moment of anything remotely good is a gift.'

I don't see anyone even remotely talking about doing anything. It's been quiet.

I can categorically deny that anything remotely like that is happening at my company, ... Beyond that I can't comment until I actually see the complaint.

The Humane Society of the United States is very pleased that Mississippi lawmakers have taken this important step to stop an egregious trophy hunting practice that amounts to nothing more than pay-per-view slaughter. Responsible hunters know there's no sport in shooting an animal remotely while lying in bed and wearing camouflage pajamas. We urge Governor Barbour to sign this bill into law now and snuff out this snuff film scenario.

The e-mail itself is perfectly consistent with the boys' unequivocal assertion that no sexual assault took place that evening. The e-mail demonstrates that its writer is completely unaware that any act or event remotely similar to what has been alleged ever occurred.

All of 2004, I was getting shot in the ankle after April. So this has been almost two years since I felt anything remotely close to this. This is what I was like in 2002.

The first half was probably our best executed of the season. We did a great job defensively and worked the ball inside and out. I was really proud of our play. The first six minutes of the second half was just a killer for us. We were not remotely close to the same team in the first half. Bowling Green is a great team, but we really beat ourselves tonight.

The discoloration is very minimal. I have not turned blue. The extent of skin discoloration is not even remotely near what the news media are saying. It is barely noticeable.

The masterstroke of male fraternity, I believed, was the practice of never speaking of anything remotely personal or related to one's emotions. That way, no one is ever made uncomfortable. Any such awkward moments can always be dispelled with a flurry of pretend-punches.

The law doesn't provide remotely enough to finance affordable decent coverage.