Tape Quotes

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

Conquering the universe one has to solve two problems: gravity and red tape. We could have mastered gravity.

Big L scared me to death. When I heard that on tape, I was scared to death. I was like there's no way I can compete if this is what I gotta compete with.

When God measures a man he puts the tape around the heart, not the head.

You can't measure manhood with a tape line around the biceps.

The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.

Most things can be fixed with duct tape and extension cords.

A prudent speculator never argues with the tape. Markets are never wrong, opinions often are.

Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.

The scope of an intellect is not to be measured with a tape-string, or a character deciphered from the shape or length of a nose.

It's such a relief for me to sit in front of a tape recorder and not be using it to learn my lines.

Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.

Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.

How little chance the Holy Ghost has nowadays. The churches and missionary societies have so bound Him in red tape that they practically ask Him to sit in a corner while they do the work themselves.

You will have to look at the tape. Actually, you could burn the tape. It's not even worth looking at... We just have to move on to next week. If we just get the next one we will be fine.

I just tape four Tylenols to it.

I recently read some of the transcripts of Nixon's Watergate tapes, and they spent hours trying to figure out who was leaking and providing information to Carl and myself.

Anything that could ever prevent me from achieving a goal, I put in a box, tape it up, throw it over my shoulder. You aim for a goal and attain it. Then you look to the next one.

Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART

To measure a leader, put a tape around his heart, not his head.

When I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape.--T-SHIRT

Unfortunately, we are finding the bureaucratic inefficiencies and red tape have a tendency to slow the efforts of individuals and communities working to rebuild.

He really meant to tell them that the big money was not in the individual fluctuations but in the main movements that is, not in reading the tape but in sizing up the entire market and its trend.

Express yourself, put stuff down on tape, and see what lives.

Now that I can edit the whole thing on AVID and edit the whole thing on tape, maybe I will do the next digitally, because maybe the quality will become less obvious between tape and film.

If you want to feel less sexy put scotch tape on your nipples.

My come-out record, '10 Day,' was the thing people were supposed to hear and figure out 'he's good' or 'he's not good.' 'Acid Rap' is the comeback tape, and it asks way bigger and better questions than, 'Is he good at rapping?

We shot on location in our very first weeks, in our very first shows. I would like to go on location again, Hawaii would be good!! But normally, we tape five days a week in the studio starting at about 8:00 a.m. and continuing until about 8:00 p.m.

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of bandages and adhesive tape.

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia.

There's a point when your tape of life runs off the reel and there's this stillness of your own - I got to know myself.

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.

In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.

Duct tape is not a perfect solution to anything. But with a little creativity, in a pinch, it's an adequate solution to just about everything.

Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours.

I think everyone, once in his life, should be given a ticker-tape parade.

I don't know whether I make myself plain, but I never lose my temper over the stock market. I never argue with the tape. Getting sore at the market doesn't get you anywhere.

The regulatory systems in place disincentive innovation. It's intense to fight the red tape.

Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

I put tape on the mirrors in my house so I don't accidentally walk through into another dimension.

I was getting Monkees Monthly and there was a competition to draw a Monkee. I did a caricature of Micky Dolenz and won 10 pounds-a fantastic sum of money for me then. I bought a secondhand tape recorder, which further launched me. They've been very responsible for me getting started.

A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off with a killer, to grab the attention. Then you've got to take it up a notch, or cool it off a notch…oh, there are a lot of rules.

Tape reading is a lost art that today is not very useful.