Contract Signing Quotes

#1. Before signing any contract, you have to assume that the guy on the other side of the desk is handing you a shifty piece of paper that works to his advantage. I know that sounds cynical, but it's really that simple.

Bun E. Carlos

#2. Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

George Ade

#3. The road to creativity passes ...

Ernest Becker

#4. We're painting the same people all our life - it's just the way we look at them that changes. If you experience trauma, you can speak about it in so many different ways. You can speak about landscape, you can speak about your food; it's always different. Trauma is the beginning of life as an artist.

Christian Boltanski

#5. [Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

Ken Blanchard

#6. If I told you that the big contract had nothing to do with my signing, Id be lying. It made the future secure for my family.

Bobby Hull

#7. April 25: Billy Wilder sends a telegram to Marilyn expressing his delight that she will appear in Some Like It Hot. She is to receive her usual $100,000 fee, plus 10 percent of the profits. She is photographed signing a contract with the film's producer, Walter Mirisch.

Carl Rollyson

#8. I came close to signing Elvis Presley. I offered $25,000 for his contract and they asked for $45,000 and I just didn't have the other $20,000.

Ahmet Ertegun

#9. In terms of my work with Nike, obviously signing Michael Jordan to a $500,000 contract in 1984 set a new precedent for the business side of the game.

Sonny Vaccaro

#10. I'd lose weight if I was an actress and had to play a role where you're supposed to be 40 lbs lighter, but weight has nothing to do with my career. Even when I was signing a contract, most of the industry knew if anyone ever dared say lose weight to me, they wouldn't be working with me.

Adele

#11. When you accept a role in a pilot, you automatically sign up for five years. You think it's scary to walk down the aisle? Try signing a five-year contract for a show you may not want to be part of down the road.

Jennifer Aniston

#12. Yeah, I am crazy. Ok. May be I am. But I prefer to be crazy than being a dummy.

Ravindra Shukla

#13. Peace is, indeed, our policy. A kind Providence has cast our lot on a portion of the globe sufficiently vast to satisfy the most grasping ambition, and abounding in resources beyond all others, which only require to be fully developed to make us the greatest and most prosperous people on earth.

John C. Calhoun

#14. Turning into a vampire is like signing a supernatural contract and like any contract, there are clauses.
And there is the fine print.

Cyma Rizwaan Khan

#15. To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.

Rob Gronkowski

#16. Make sure you know what you are signing when you sign a recording contract.

Tommy Shaw

#17. It's one thing to have the attitude of enlightenment and another thing to act in an enlightened way, which is conduct or activity ...

Sakyong Mipham

#18. Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don't choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.

Dawn Downey