Quotes About Signal

Trying to get information out of someone you are sleep-depriving is sort of like trying to get a better signal out of a radio that you are smashing with a sledgehammer.

Life was not hard; you shouldered it bravely, knowing all the time that if you sent the signal, help would arrive.

CDMA—better known as frequency hopping, or "spread spectrum"—was a way to use multiple frequencies to send the same signal. This system was invented by Hedy Lamarr, the actress, and would become the industry standard.19

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

A chit is stealthily provided to the speaker to indicate that it is time now for him to stop the lecture and quit the podium, and sometimes for this purpose only somebody else is sent to go and stand beside him.

On the theoretical side, I was concerned with stochastic resonance.

Her voice was low and dry and monotonous, the voice of a vicious boredom. It affected me like a rattlesnake's buzzing signal.

We've seen parents successfully use a variant of this approach when an infant cries to be fed. Instead of immediately feeding the crying child, the mother lets the child know that the signal has been received but then waits for her or him to quiet down before offering the breast or the bottle. Again, it's hard to ignore the cries at first, and we realize that to some parents it sounds too cruel to even try. But

It was a mystery why the army bothered with a signal communication system when its men were so good at gossip.

If you keep pettin' me, I'm likely to take it as a sign yer up for another round.

I try to use every game as an opportunity to witness. I try to do a little signal every time I make a shot as a way to preach the message in little ways that I can.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

The market wants to see you persist. It demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

a generous beacon, a signal flare sent up so that people who are looking for you can easily find you.

That signal's come and gone a lot in my life-time, that prairie progressivism died . I think prairie progressivism is still there. Every once in a while, odd things take place.

As philosopher Terence McKenna has suggested, "To search expectantly for a radio signal from an extraterrestrial source is probably as culture-bound a presumption as to search the galaxy for a good Italian restaurant" (McKenna 1991).

Myth, the smoke of history, is seen to signal new and more relevant meanings when espied from the distance of later millennia.

Strato the Physicist. His appointment sent a clear signal that the natural and physical sciences would be the Lyceum's focus in the future, just as ethics and formal philosophy would be the future focus at the Academy.

Neither matter, nor energy, nor anything capable of being used as a signal can travel faster than the speed of light. This limitation of the speed signalling to 299,796 kilometres a second seems a rather arbitrary decree of Nature.

If you're not sure when to run, it's a sure bet that when I show up, that's your sign.

No behavior happens without a prompt.

Low lights signal to our senses that the workday may be over and it's time for sleep, making it hard for an audience to pay careful attention. When we stand behind a big wooden podium, it can feel as if there's a shield between us and the audience.

Oh, I can think of many reasons. Perhaps it's a signal, so that any strange ship entering our universe will know where to look for life. Perhaps it marks the centre of galactic administration. Or perhaps—and somehow I feel that this is the real explanation—it's simply the greatest of all works of art. But it's foolish to speculate now. In a few hours we shall know the truth.