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Quotes About Signature

He also came to like the idea of having a uniform for himself, because of both its daily convenience (the rationale he claimed) and its ability to convey a signature style. So I asked Issey to make me some of his black turtlenecks that I liked, and he made like a hundred of them. Jobs noticed my surprise when he told this story, so he gestured to them stacked up in a closet. That's what I wear, he said. I have enough to last for the rest of my life.
~ Walter Isaacson
At the official signing of the parchment copy on August 2, John Hancock, the president of the Congress, penned his name with his famous flourish. There must be no pulling different ways, he declared. We must all hang together. According to the early American historian Jared Sparks, Franklin replied, Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.
~ Walter Isaacson
He was the only person to sign all four of its founding papers: the Declaration of Independence, the treaty with France, the peace accord with Britain, and the Constitution.
~ Walter Isaacson
We're going to shoot one Polaroid per show. I'm going to sign this before it even develops because I know that once it develops with my signature on it, it's worth a fortune. I'll make this a work of magic warlock art.
~ Charlie Sheen
Throughout the night he spun a thread... Each radius exactly drawn With trellised filaments between, And over all bright diamonds shone; In meshed and tenuous design It was a fragile, wayside sonnet— The maker, heedless of acclaim, Had left no signature upon it.
~ Bertha Wilcox Smith, c. 1957
A signature is the shape of our personality; it's our nameprint, our soulmark in ink.
~ Terri Guillemets
Another problem is that it's not always easy to distinguish between a killer's MO and his signature. Supposedly, a signature act is something the killer needs to do to satisfy his sickest urges—"whatever he gets his rocks off on," as Ted Bundy so bluntly put it—whereas the MO relates to the purely practical aspects of pulling off and getting away with the crime. But it's often hard to make such hard-and-fast distinctions.
~ Harold Schechter
Only a handful of professional football athletes have had a signature shoe, unlike in basketball where there have been a number of guys.
~ Keyshawn Johnson
Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.
~ Yotam Ottolenghi
The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.
~ Dwayne Hickman
In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature.
~ Carl Sagan
My signature dish is a khoresht fesenjan. It's a stew with pomegranate and walnuts.
~ Kayvan Novak
Fighting Anderson Silva was a signature and career-defining moment that was stolen from me.
~ Derek Brunson
I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of 'Constellation.' A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.
~ Anthony Marra
You have to understand that once an indictment has been signed, all countries that are signature to the U.N. charter will hand a person straight over. You don't have to go through the normal extradition process.
~ Tony Greig
Oh, the most fun thing I've ever been asked to autograph was breasts.
~ Peter Tork
symbature—a symbol used in place of a signature. Many of the early philosophers, artists, and authors signed their work with their own unique symbol or monogram rather than their name. This practice added a mysterious allure to their work and also protected them from persecution should their writings or artwork be deemed counterestablishment.
~ Dan Brown
by the way, Adams – unlike Madison – actually signed the Bill of Rights." Well, of course James Madison, as a member of the House of Representatives, didn't sign the Bill of Rights, and John Adams, as president of the Senate, did!
~ Chris Rodda
Fearing cold and flu season, I fist-bump the credit card signature pad.
~ Helen Ellis
The good life consists in deriving happiness by using your signature strengths every day in the main realms of living. The meaningful life adds one more component: using these same strengths to forward knowledge, power or goodness.
~ Martin Seligman
Art can retain its value and even make you some money. If you have your iPhone on you - and you probably do - look for the artist's signature, and use that to look up the artist and get a sense of the piece's value before you buy it.
~ Lara Spencer
he signed his work .. you could always tell when it was Herb Ellis playing
~ Barney Kessel
...and my signature is drawn in magic markeron the lower right hand corner of the windowso when something passes in the darkit's captured for a moment inside my work.
~ David Berman
I've learned that there's a signature Metallica sound, and if we stray too far from that, our fans get impatient, or they just don't understand, or they miss the point. And I'm not saying that's a good thing or a bad thing; it's just something we have to contend with.
~ Kirk Hammett