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  • 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."

    Funny   Humor   Offering  
  • 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.

    Change   Hands   Buttons  
  • While watching the New Orleans Saints (on television), I got angry and punched my bed, and then my remote control flew up and hit me in the head. My girlfriend didn't stop laughing for an hour.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery's dead?

    Funny   Humor   Batteries  
  • Being deaf and partially blind means I don't really watch TV. I wouldn't know what to do with a remote control.

    Mean   Watches   Tvs  
  • He who controls the remote, controls the world

    Julie Garwood (2012). “Heartbreaker”, p.102, Simon and Schuster
  • Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

    Gun   Weapons   Fit  
    Roger Rosenblatt (1994). “The Man in the Water: Essays and Stories”, Random House
  • The rest of the world loves soccer. Surely we must be missing something. Uh, isn't that what the Russians told us about communism? There's a good reason why you don't care about soccer - it's because you are an American and hating soccer is more American than mom's apple pie, driving a pick-up and spending Saturday afternoon channel-surfing with the remote control.

    Soccer   Mom   Hate  
  • Television remote controls encourage couch potatoes to exercise their options while broadening their base.

  • 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.

    Funny   Baby   Children  
    Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet
  • See, Sway, that’s what you get for flunking your pilot’s test six times…which I’m pretty sure is a record of some sort. If not for the actual flunking, definitely for the persistence in pursuing that which you obviously have no talent for. Personally, I wouldn’t let you fly a remote-control kid’s plane. (Vik) Shut up before I find a can opener. (Sway)

    Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.35, Macmillan
  • Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.

    Simone Elkeles (2011). “Perfect Chemistry”, p.188, Simon and Schuster
  • Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle.

    Book   Technology   Space  
    "Feature Presentation". www.newyorker.com. May 28, 2007.
  • 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.

  • A small handgun makes any TV remote control.

    David Letterman (1994). “Late Night Top Ten Lists”
  • About the book of Job: If it were today, God might be asking "How does DNA carry traits? How are instincts passed on in animals? How does consciousness arise in the human body and brain, and what is consciousness? What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?

    Jobs   Fun   Book  
  • Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.

  • I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.

    Waiting   Soul   Cameras  
  • Come to think of it, that word (choice) shouldn't be applied to people's destinies. Ever. Choice should be relegated to TV and meals: You could choose NBC over CBS or steak instead of chicken. But take the concept any further than the stove or the remote control and the word just didn't apply. - V

    Destiny   Thinking   Nbc  
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Funny   Sex   Giving Up  
  • 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.

    War   Home   Tanks  
    "Andrew Niccol on his new drone-warfare drama Good Kill". Interview With Sam Fragoso, film.avclub.com. May 20, 2015.
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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!

  • Supporters of the war are constantly asking those who oppose it: Why don't you deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side? The answer, so far as I am concerned, is that I do deplore the wrongs and atrocities committed by the other side. But I am responsible for the wrongs and atrocities committed by our side. And I am no longer able to participate in the assumption that atrocities committed by remote control are less objectionable than those committed at arm's length. I am most concerned with American obstacles to peace because I am an American.

  • 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.

    Home   Night   Bed  
  • People say I talk slowly. I talk in a way sometimes called laconic. The phone rings, I answer, and people ask if they've woken me up. I lose my way in the middle of sentences, leaving people hanging for minutes. I have no control over it. I'll be talking, and will be interested in what I'm saying, but then someone-I'm convinced this what happens-someone-and I wish I knew who, because I would have words for this person-for a short time, borrows my head. Like a battery is borrowed from a calculator to power a remote control, someone, always, is borrowing my head.

    Dave Eggers (2011). “You Shall Know Our Velocity”, p.23, Penguin UK
  • Narrative Collapse is what happens when we no longer have time in which to tell a story. Remote controls and DVRs give us the ability to break down narratives - particularly the more abusive ones. This is a great thing for escaping the 'ends-justify-the-means' traps of 20th-century wars and religions, but it can also make it hard to convey values.

    War   Mean   Escaping  
    "Living in the Present Is a Disorder". Interview with R.U. Sirius, www.wired.com. April 8, 2013.
  • I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control.

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