#remotely

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

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. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#animal #form #indeed #life #material

Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all. ↗

— Mary MacLane

#always #am #book #call #even

I kept my age quiet for a good few years. I didn't see it as a positive. I worked remotely, so I just didn't tell people. ↗

— Pete Cashmore

#few #good #i #just #kept

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

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

I didn't go to the right schools, didn't come from a well-known family, nor was I even remotely connected to a powerful publishing dynasty. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#connected #dynasty #even #family #go

If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery. ↗

— Shirley Manson

#call #even #fiery #going #opinions

Items of interest will be located, identified, monitored, and remotely controlled through technologies such as radio-frequency identification, sensor networks, tiny embedded servers, and energy harvesters - all connected to the next-generation internet using abundant, low-cost, and high-power computing. ↗

— David Petraeus

#computing #connected #controlled #embedded #energy

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