Ticker Tape Quotes

#1. We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

Anne Lamott

#2. I don't have a ticker-tape machine in my office.

Walter Schloss

#3. She had spent so much time thinking about what it would be like to finally come home and how much she missed everybody - she thought they'd throw her a ticker tape parade. She thought it would be a big hugfest.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves. No one throws ticker tape on the man who chose to be faithful to his wife, on the lawyer who didn't take the drug money ...

Peggy Noonan

#5. Twitter is so severe, you know? And it's completely for free, it's scattershot, and it's very easy to feel embarrassed. It's hard to be artful with it. It's like a ticker tape. It's not a forum that's worth mastering, you know?

Jonathan Ames

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

Gene Kranz

#7. Proving nothing," said Ford. "I wouldn't trust that computer to speak my weight."
"I can do that for you, sure," enthused the computer, punching out more ticker tape. "I can even work out your personality problems to ten decimal places if it will help.

Douglas Adams

#8. I am not merely a habitual quoter but an incorrigible one. I am, I may as well face it, more quotatious than an old stock-market ticker-tape machine, except that you can't unplug me.

Joseph Epstein

#9. As a kid, I saw those ticker-tape parades in the movies, and I was really chuffed to be in one.

Rick Astley

#10. I long to be musical in body and mind. I want style, consort. Not the little mental squirts as if through the ticker-tape of the mind.

Lawrence Durrell

#11. Anyone could see the ticker tape. It was more frightening than the that never stopped calculating the national debt. This one said '27 SHOPPING DAYS TO CHRISTMAS'.
It might as well have said '27 DAYS TO ARMAGEDDON'.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. He dreamed in ticker tape and calliope colors.

Bruce Olds

#13. Not all races are run on a track. And not all finish lines are marked by ticker tape.

Toni Sorenson

#14. I'm probably at my least religious I've ever been in a while. When you're moved by music, that's always good. But I haven't been talking to God too much lately.

Stone Gossard

#15. Never settle for less than what you imagined possible for yourself

Jerel Hill

#16. Maybe he should have kept quiet about if he knew they couldn't stand it.
Is that what you do?

Caryl Churchill

#17. Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister.

Mahatma Gandhi

#18. The feeling of having shared in a common peril is one element in the powerful cement which binds us.

Alcoholics Anonymous

#19. Some people think, if you're in the public eye, that you have to have an answer for everything and it has to be boring.

Katherine Heigl

#20. So in the near future, two or three years, people in Kyrgyzstan will experience a better life.

Kurmanbek Bakiyev