Signatures Quotes - Page 5

• Virgil Donati is clearly the best drummer to come along in the music scene in quite some time. He is extremely unique and has embraced an original sound that has given him a signature that is unmistakable and impossible to duplicate.

  Tony MacAlpine

  Unique, Sound, Impossible

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• Can we talk?

  Joan Rivers

  Phrases

  "Joan Rivers obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. September 4, 2014.

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• From my music training, I knew that, some Spanish rhythms apart, 5/4 is a time signature used only in the modern era. Holst's Mars from the Planets is 5/4. But if you speak lines of poetry in that pattern you just end up hitting the off-beats. It's only when you add a rest - a sixth beat - that it sounds as it surely should sound.

  Nicholson Baker

  Training, Sound, Add

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• I'm totally on a mission to find my signature scent, but I'm too mercurial.

  Lexa Doig

  Scent, Missions

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• Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people...

  Stephanie Cutter

  People, Position, Felony

  "Government Filings Dispute Romney's Time At Bain". "All Things Considered" with Tamara Keith, www.npr.org. July 12, 2012.

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• Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

  George E. P. Box

  Simple, Mediocrity, Scientist

  "Science and Statistics". Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 71, No. 356, (p. 792), December, 1976.

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• Southerners take no issue with absurdity. We don’t pretend the world is logical or fair. If there were a signature regional gesture it would be a shrug. For us, crazy happens. Better to sit back, enjoy the show, and drink the tea

  Allison Glock

  Crazy, Issues, Tea

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• Both art and science are bent on the understanding of the forces that shape existence, and both call for a dedication to what is. Neither of them can tolerate capricious subjectivity because both are subject to their criteria of truth. Both require precision, order, and discipline because no comprehensible statement can be made without these. Both accept the sensory world as what the Middle Ages called signatura regrum, the signature of things, but in quite different ways.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Art, Dedication, Order

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• Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet no social stigma in the possession of a gullied farm, a wrecked forest, or a polluted stream, provided the dividends suffice to send the youngsters to college. Whatever ails the land, the government will fix it.

  Aldo Leopold

  Children, College, Government

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.114, Oxford University Press

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• It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at). There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty. Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Humorous, Thinking, Men

  Letter to Professor E.S. Morse, Science, Volume 15, 1890.

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• The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.

  Billy Collins

  Keys, Dna, Lines

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• We always search for the signature of God to prove His existence. And now I say unto you that Art is His very signature!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Art, Existence, Prove

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• I always wanted to do a deal with Russell Simmons, and now I've got my signature on a piece of paper with his.

  El-P

  Pieces, Paper, Deals

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Ramones or AC/DC are two bands that have managed to keep their signature sound and their signature formula for years and years and album after album after album, without it seeming like a dead-end street.

  Dave Grohl

  Two, Years, Sound

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Surfaces reveal so much. The marks painters make reveal so much about their work and themselves; their sense of proportion, line, and rhythm is more telling than their signature. Looking at the surfaces of nature may offer equivalent revelations. What do these shapes and patterns reveal about the world and their creator? Surfaces hide so much.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Shapes, Lines, May

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• The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.

  Roger Federer

  Running, Powerful, Thinking

  Interview with Anjali Rao, www.cnn.com. December 6, 2007.

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• Every person has a signature. Just some people don't know it yet.

  Rita Ora

  People, Persons, Knows

  "From England, Fashion's Latest Darling" by Bee -Shuyang Chang, www.nytimes.com. January 09, 2013.

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• Listen to John Coltrane enough and after two bars, just two bars at any place, and you know that's him. We all have signature things that happen to be similar that you can predict and you try to stay away from that except the rhythms: those pauses, they're part of my signature, the part where I know when I say nothing, I already painted enough, led enough and I don't even have to say anything. But those pauses don't belong to me. Jack Benny was one of the first guys in comedy to make the anticipation so great that during the pause people start to laugh before the execution.

  Bill Cosby

  Two, People, Laughing

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• I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.

  Chris Ware

  Children, Grandmother, People

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• It's inevitable that everyone's first drawing they draw is much like their fingerprint. It's inescapable that one has an identifiable style. It's not a major issue with me, but I never wanted to have a distinctive signature style so much.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Drawing, Issues, Style

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Killing time in the precinct, I find a copy of one of my early volumes in a dump-bin on the pavement outside the charity shop. The price is 10p. It is a signed copy. Under the signature, in my own handwriting, are the words, "To mum and dad".

  Simon Armitage

  Dad, Handwriting, Charity

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• You're writing it is how you feel. And when you're finished you put your signature on it and you mail it off and that's it. And that's how "Stand By Me" was really.

  Ben E. King

  Writing, Stand By Me, How You Feel

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• When you parent, it's crucial you realize you aren't raising a "mini me," but a spirit throbbing with its own signature. For this reason, it's important to separate who you are from who each of your children is. Children aren't ours to possess or own in any way. When we know this in the depths of our soul, we tailor our raising of them to their needs, rather than molding them to fit our needs.

  Shefali Tsabary

  Children, Parent, Soul

  "The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children". Book by Shefali Tsabary, November 1, 2010.

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• What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, "It is finished. We made it, and it works.

  William Faulkner

  Jobs, Men, Finals

  William Faulkner (2011). “Essays, Speeches & Public Letters”, p.135, Modern Library

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• To trace in Nature's most minute design The signature and stamp of power divine. ... The Invisible in things scarce seen revealed, To whom an atom is an ample field.

  William Cowper

  Science, Design, Atoms

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.148

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