Charles Platt

I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me feel like a bug stuck to a piece of duct tape. Ever since my teenage years, when I used to read a lot of science fiction and took it much too seriously, I've dreamed of somehow reaching escape velocity. I am, you might say, anti-gravity.

English Author

Tim O'Brien

The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and the nape of the neck and to make a person feel something about the characters are going through and to experience the moral paradoxes and struggles of being human.

American Author

Henry Gray

The appendages of the skin are the nails, the hairs, the sudoriferous and sebaceous glands, and their ducts. The nails and hairs are peculiar modifications of the epidermis, consisting essentially of the same cellular structure as that membrane.

English Scientist

Jamie Hyneman

Duct tape is like that. It's a building block. You can make a rope out of it, you can make a cloth out of it. And because it sticks to stuff it's even more powerful. It's like an uber-material because of the versatility of a sticky fiber.

American Entertainer

Jinkx Monsoon

It's not just putting on a little bit of makeup and putting on a dress. Some drag queens duct tape their heads, some drag queens are bound and strapped and pulled in every which direction. To be in drag is no small endeavor.

Amy Purdy

My dad had given my sister and I our starter car, a red, old 1985 Chevy Blazer. It was so beat up, the taillights would fall off, and we would use red duct tape.

American Actress

Jane Fonda

Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.

Christopher Buckley

George H. W. Bush may be a World War II hero and New England Yankee blue blood, but he has the tear ducts of a Sicilian grandmother.

American Novelist

Simone Giertz

I love Sugru like I love duct tape. I basically just compensated for lack of building skills with Sugru.

Swedish Inventor

Grant Imahara

Everybody has stories about using duct tape. Of course, most don't try to lift a car with it.

American Celebrity

Often used to describe pathways within systems like heating or wiring in construction and engineering.

Industrial Usage

Sometimes used metaphorically to imply a direct, hidden, or efficient route for something non-physical.

Metaphoric Use

'Duct' can be part of a compound word, indicating a specific use or application.

Combined Forms

In medical or biological contexts, it refers to natural tubes in organisms.

Biological Context

The word 'duct' is used with specific body parts to refer to their channels, like 'tear duct'.

Specific Body Parts

The word is commonly used in discussions of health and bodily functions.

Health Discussions

 glues need enough real estate where surfaces touch. If for some reason you wanted to make a chain of bowling balls, duct tape would be better. Engineers weigh similar, if less absurd, factors all the time. Choosing the right glue to withstand the heat inside an engine is a matter of life and death.

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 around yeah basically there's not have duct tape in the world I don't think that would work it wouldn't work and you know sure I bust his balls right that's all good fun but you know what Paul would I just have that same type of personality too I think we'd clash paint a same boat yeah

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 around your your face they obviously in search of any kind of moisture so sweats liquid around the eyes around the tear ducts up your nose that gets a bit much at times when they do that and what you find is if you accidentally squash one which I'm afraid to say does happen

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 But I want everyone here to reimagine a world where instead of prescribing steroids, inhalers and medication, the doctor turns to Julie and says, "Why don't you go home and clean out your air filters. Clean out the air ducts in your home, in your workplace, in your school.

Award-winning teen-age...

 world that I play in now is technology but it's technology for the sake of humanity and what that means is how do you take something and crack it open and modify it and zip tie it or duct tape it back together and maybe reprogram it in a way so that it accomplishes a

Making the impossible...

 biological attack the US government encouraged citizens to store duct tape and plastic sheeting for sealing windows Jerry devised a method he believes is more reliable this is our sunroom it's the only sunlight in the complete complex so when you get claustrophobic

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 come to the room with the suitcase they pulled the packages out of the suitcase they laid them on the bed and sprayed them all with anti dog spray ninety dogs great they turn up the TV to mask the sound of the duct tape they

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 or, in the rare case of the platypus, through ducts in the abdomen. Although this process is typically reserved for females, in some species, like dayak fruit bats, goats, and even cats, males can also lactate.

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 the entrenched world of mammography with a machine that was held together by duct tape. To say that we faced high doses of skepticism in those early years is just a huge understatement,

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 these can only be reached during a brief lull in the currents the ducts must quickly prise the mussels free before the tide starts to turn