Quotes About Recorder

H}istory records the patterns of men's lives, they say: Who slept with whom and with what results; who fought and who and who lived to lie about it afterwards. All things, it is said, are duly recorded--all things of importance, that is. But not quite, for actually it is only the known, the seen, the heard and only those events that the recorder regards as important that are set down, those lies his keepers keep their power by. -- Ralph Ellison, in Invisible Man

You have a time machine and you use it for... watching television? Well, I wouldn't use it at all if I could get the hang of the video recorder.

Finally, you'll tell the truth. I've read so many lies about the project I can hardly stand it. If this book can set the record straight—well, you'll be doing us a service. And I hope you won't mind if I turn on my own tape recorder while we talk. It isn't that I don't trust you. . .

Music always hits me when I'm driving so I keep a recorder in my bag.

I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards.

Growing up, I was definitely surrounded by music all the time. My parents used to always play music; my dad used to have reggae on. I remember walking around with a cassette recorder, and I used to just record the songs I would hear on the radio so I could play it back when I feel like.

Fermi had scalers that counted off boron trifluoride readings with loud clicks and a cylindrical pen recorder that performed a similar function silently, graphing pile intensities in ink on a roll of slowly rotating graph paper. For calculations he relied on his own trusted six-inch slide rule, the pocket calculator of its day.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

She held out a small voice recorder. 'By the way, could you describe exactly how you felt at the moment of impact? I'm writing this short story--' 'Put that away, Hazel,' hissed Mam. 'The poor boy is in pain.' Hazel persisted. 'Would that be a white-hot pain? Or more of a dull throbbing pain?

When I was doing interviews at the FBI, my tape recorder battery died. They gave me a new one, and I said, 'Of course, this is bugged?'

I never do formal interviews. I don't use a tape recorder. I take notes but occasionally.

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

David's tape recorder is allowed in the class to document potential future violations. The secretary doesn't sound too upset at the idea that Mr. Neck could get canned. I bet she knows him personally.

Now there's something you don't see everyday. Gah, I hope there's no human roaming around with a video recorder or cell phone. Be a bitch to explain that. Easier to just kill them." – Sasha

If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff?

I played recorder in assembly, then I became passionate about the guitar, I don't know why. I started on electric then moved to acoustic - my brother was playing bass in the next room.

I first began with the recorder in our community music school. After that, I played horn and participated in the school orchestra.

I've always got a notepad on or a voice recorder recording ideas.

Before I forget, I keep a notebook (and more recently a voice recorder) with me at all times. Why? Because I never know when a good idea is going to come along. The first step to a great game is a great idea. Don't lose that great idea. Make sure you write it down!

Today is a time of turbulence and stagnation, of threat and promise from a competitor: the magic, omnivorous videocassette recorder (VCR). In other words, it is business as usual.

For our last shall be the recorder of eternity.

So Mari Carmen went to Radio Shack and bought a tape recorder and audiotapes. Then, she started calling Leslie. Mari Carmen explained to her that she needed a mentor, a woman wise in the ways of the world, who could explain the mysteries of sex to her, who could guide her if she wanted to duplicate Leslie's experience with the Jocks in the basement.

I love threats. They make great quotes. Is that recorder working, Irene?

After Laura leaves, I pick up the recorder on the nightstand and play a short melody Howard once taught me. "It's basically just six notes repeated," he told me. "The simple power of music."...... ..."Then I listen in the darkness for the familiar sounds, knowing everything has changed.