#remotely

I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life. ↗

— R. A. Salvatore

#connect #even #excite #getting #handed

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#fertile #indifferent #nearly #possessions #possessors

And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human. ↗

— William Gibson

#blue eyes #certainty #directly #even #exceedingly

My vanity is not remotely physical, it is cerebral. I suppose feeling self-conscious might be a form of vanity, though. ↗

— Richard Griffiths

#feeling #form #i #might #physical

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. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#any #daughters #day #ever #happens

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

— Mark Edwards

#interesting #marketing #me #music #nothing

I had seen movies before that that had made me laugh, but I had never seen anything even remotely close to as funny as Richard Pryor was, just standing there talking. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#before #close #even #funny #had

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#computers #customers #details #easy #good

I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill. ↗

— George Saunders

#bottom #deep #drill #dynamite #give

I'm not sure it pays to do anything remotely public in Britain. It's such a spiteful society. People seem to enjoy making your life hard for the sake of it. ↗

— Andrew Eldritch

#britain #enjoy #hard #i #life