Tape Quotes - Page 5

• I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why.

  Jay Asher

  Listening, Stories, Reason Why

  Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.17, Penguin

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• Why would we ever want to go back when your world is so accommodating with your telephones and your guns and what's that sticky stuff called ...duct tape.

  Cornelia Funke

  Gun, World, Want

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• As a wedding gift, Ray J gave Kim Kardashian his profits from their sex tape. It's 'Something Old' as well as 'Something Blew.'

  Joan Rivers

  Funny, Wedding, Sex

  Twitter post from May 25, 2014

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• Such a bad mistake it would be, to embark on marriage and adult life without a nice supply of duct tape.

  Nancy Werlin

  Mistake, Nice, Adults

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• Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely.

  Neil Gaiman

  Memories, Together, Events

  "Smoke and Mirrors". Book by Neil Gaiman, October, 1998.

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• What's that sticky stuff called? Basta: Duct tape. Yes, duct tape. I love duct tape.

  Cornelia Funke

  Stuff, Inkheart, Sticky

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• On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.

  John Fowles

  Writing, Doubt, Mind

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• The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Years, Loving Someone, Sick

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So here I am, my affections torn between a postal service that never feeds me but can tackle a challenge and one that gives me free tape and prompt service but won't help me out when I can't remember a street name. The lesson to draw from this, of course, is that when you move from one country to another you have to accept that there are some things that are better and some things worse, and there is nothing you can do about it. That may not be the profoundest of insights to take away from a morning's outing, but I did get a free doughnut as well, so on balance I guess I'm happy.

  Bill Bryson

  Country, Morning, Moving

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• Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

  Rob Sheffield

  Memories, Tonight, Body

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.12, Crown Archetype

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• Every mix tape tells a story. Put them together, and they add up to the story of life.

  Rob Sheffield

  Together, Add, Stories

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.26, Crown Archetype

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• But the rhythm of the mix tape is the rhythm of romance, the analog hum of a physical connection between two sloppy, human bodies.

  Rob Sheffield

  Two, Romance, Connections

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.218, Crown Archetype

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• Whatcha doin', Freak Girl?" --------------------------- "What does it look like, brainiac?" I shot back, even surprising myself with the force of my jab. "I'll give you three guesses. No, wait. Don't strain yourself. Wouldn't want to hurt your head." I waved a flyer in his face, channeling my inner mean girl. "See these? I'm hanging them...on a...wall!" I spoke the last part slowly, as if addressing a dim-witted child. Which wasn't far off the mark, now that I thought about it. "With tape," I added, waving at the dispenser. "You know-sticky, sticky!

  Mari Mancusi

  Mean Girls, Hurt, Children

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• He was the boy that made mix tapes with themes and hand-colored covers until the day he hit my sister and stopped crying.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Boys, Hands, Cry

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• At this point two elderly security guards in parkas, the guys who normally work the front desk at the plant, asked John to step behind the tape. John claims that here he told the guards that he could not speak English and when that failed to persuade them, he fa...ked a violent seizure. I am unclear as to the purpose of this part of his plan. John flung himself down and began rolling around in the snow, thrashing his limbs about and screaming “EL SEIZURE!!! NO ES BUENO!!!” in a Mexican accent.

  David Wong

  Elderly, Security Guards, Speak English

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.408, Titan Books

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• All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into Best of Queen albums.

  Terry Pratchett

  Queens, Car, Albums

  Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett (2011). “Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I repeat his words in my head. What's going on? What's going on? Oh, well, since you asked, I got a bunch of tapes in the mail today from a girl who killed herself. Apparently, I had something to do with it. I'm not sure what that is, so I was wondering if I could borrow your Walkman to find out. 'Not much,' I say.

  Jay Asher

  Girl, Mail, Today

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.32, Penguin

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• I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any ordinary taste for literature.

  Edward Bellamy

  Book, People, Liberty

  Edward Bellamy (2000). “Looking Backward: From 2000 to 1887”, p.101, Applewood Books

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• The greatest act of love was to make a tape for someone. It was the only way we could share music and it was also a way of advertising yourself. Selection, order, the lettering you used for the track list, how much technical detail you went into, whether or not you added artwork or offered only artwork and no track list at all, these choices were as codified as a Victorian bouquet.

  Lavinia Greenlaw

  Order, Track, Choices

  Lavinia Greenlaw (2015). “The Importance of Music to Girls”, p.140, Faber & Faber

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• I don't get pat down, you know what's on the waist,
  I don't mean Jazz when I say I "count base."
  Fly Louis sneakers, Purple Tape coming out the speakers,
  Bumped into my high school teachers,
  They said I wouldn't be nothing, sitting on the bleachers.
  Now I'm sitting in the Phantom, trynna figure out the features.
  I'm a big fish now, I watch for the leeches.

  Sheek Louch

  Teacher, Rap, School

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• There was something about the music on that tape. It felt different. Like, it set her lungs and her stomach on edge. There was something exciting about it, and something nervous. It made Eleanor feel like everything, like the world, wasn't what she'd thought it was. And that was a good thing. That was the greatest thing.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Different, World, Nervous

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.53, St. Martin's Griffin

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• I mean I'm not smarter than the market, but I can recognize a good tape and a bad tape. I recognize when it's right and when it's wrong and that's what my strength is.

  Jim Cramer

  Strength, Mean Girls, Strong

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• When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Thinking, Unusual Things, People

  Interview with Charles Kohler, East Village Eye, 1968.

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• I should say if anybody wants to tape my conversations, go right ahead, feel free to do it. I appreciate anybody who wants to tape me openly and notoriously, and those who feel like they want to sneakily, and wear taping devices, I would remind them that it kind of smells like Nixon and Watergate.

  Rod Blagojevich

  Smell, Appreciate, Want

  "Roundtable: Maintaining Diversity Amid Job Cuts". "Roundtable" with Farai Chideya, www.npr.org. December 10, 2008.

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• In 1968 I ran into Steve Lacy on the street in Rome. I took out my pocket tape recorder and asked him to describe in fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation. He answered: "In fifteen seconds the difference between composition and improvisation is that in composition you have all the time you want to decide what to say in fifteen seconds, while in improvisation you have fifteen seconds." His answer lasted exactly fifteen seconds.

  Frederic Rzewski

  Music, Rome, Differences

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