Signatures quotes
128 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"Fragrance is a very personal gift, and I think that's why it makes a great Christmas gift. There's a very distinct signature to it, so if you give it as a gift, I like to think that it's from a person that thinks very highly of you."
"she kissed as if she, alone, could forge the signature of the sun"
"In one way or another, I always marked my pictures. But there were times when I put my signature on the back of the canvas. All my works from the cubist period, until about 1914, have my name and the date on the back side of the stretcher. I know someone spread the story that in Céret, Braque and I decided not to sign our pictures anymore. But that's just a legend!"
"When your signature dish is hamburger in between a doughnut, and you've been cheerfully selling this stuff knowing all along that you've got Type 2 Diabetes... It's in bad taste if nothing else."
"If I were to sign it now, I'd be committing forgery. I'd be putting my 1943 signature on a canvas painted in 1922."
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"We didn't want to sign the painting itself, that would have interfered with the composition. And even later, for that reason or for another, I sometimes marked my canvases on the back. If you don't see my signature and the date, madam, it's because the frame is hiding it."
"Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them."
"So many signatures for such a small heart."
"My ambition is to further create a signature sound, a signature spirit, that makes some kind of contribution to music in general."
"O my poor old Harry Jekyll, if ever I read Satan's signature upon a face, it is on that of your new friend."
"Affectors Harmagedon is a solid blast of PROG metal complete with burning solos, odd time signatures, orchestral highlights, and Rock riffs that will tear your head off! Excited that I could be a part of this album!"
"My signature style is super uniformed. I like black pants, black blazers, and boots."
"Ineluctable modality of the visible; at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read."
"Our analytical faculties allow us to look critically at our writing and interpret it. Sometimes we make bold, impulsive edits to our poems, but most forms of precision and economy in poetry, it seems to me, are signatures of the analytical mind."
"I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature"
"There is actually a genetic signature associated with meditation."
"I think for a chef, to have a signature dish is a tough question to answer. On one, you don't want to be associated necessarily with just one thing that you think you might do well. On the other side, you've got to commit to owning up to certain things."
"I don't think in time signatures, and when I do, what I write is generally 3/4 or 4/4, the most basic, straightforward stuff. I think that comes from just not being a super-schooled musician."
"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."
"Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature."
"I think a fragrance is more of a signature than even what you wear - something you'll remember more down the road than a shirt."
"How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory."
"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."
"Art is the signature of man."
"You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it."
