Top 100 Sign Quotes
#1. Always the wall, keeping him apart, this man who was a first-name friend to everyone and an intimate to none. And on it, it was almost as if there were a sign that read, THIS FAR YOU GO, and no further.
George R R Martin
#2. As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
M.J. Rose
#3. He didn't like to be seen needing it - as if hunger were a sign of weakness.
Lionel Shriver
#4. If memory serves me correctly, and it doesn't always, Kate [DiCamillo] and I met in the fall of 2001 at the former Figlio's restaurant in Minneapolis. We were laughing within a minute of meeting - always a good sign.
Kate DiCamillo
#5. When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.
David E. Kelley
#6. I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
David Nicholls
#7. When it came time to be a professional rapper, I wouldn't sign anything without reading it. There was no way I was going to have people make decisions for me or wake up one day and find that I was broke because I never bothered to read a contract.
Queen Latifah
#9. God knows it's a sign of a really sick mind to see grown people, adults with responsibilities, wearing class rings.
Nikki Giovanni
#10. As far as size goes, to gain access to the complex we're going to cross the 623 foot moat, using the stone causeway. Once across we simply need to search the 203 acres of land and temple for any sign of what we may be looking for.
Vincent Pauletti
#11. There is no grand strategy. My sensibilities push me in a certain direction. Other actors have different sensibilities. That's all. I think it really is that simple. There's no grand strategy. There are so many variables that I have no control over. I sign on to movies I want to watch, as a fan.
Shia Labeouf
#12. I can see no greater sign of God's glory than the trees around us in the Pacific Northwest. All you have to do is look outside to see God - there are trees everywhere.
Ned Hayes
#13. Even if you break the bird's wings, you cannot change its spirit and heart,"-- Lilette (The Sign of Change)
H. El-Tahwagi
#14. One of them had a large wooden sign nailed to its door proclaiming, NO SYMPATHY! I wondered what non-arcane visitors might think of the warning.
Patrick Rothfuss
#15. Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.
W. H. Auden
#16. If you can't read a simple goddam sign and follow one simple goddam instruction then get your fat butt the hell out of here.
Garrison Keillor
#17. A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.
Denis Waitley
#18. When I turned 16, my dad made me sign a contract - he made us sign contracts for everything - that if I hit my car, I would be responsible for paying for it. I was in bumper-to-bumper traffic, and I tapped someone. It was so not a big deal, but I had to pay for it.
Kim Kardashian
#19. It is best to be born in April or August when the life-giving Sun is in its exaltation sign Aries or Leo, its home, for then we enter the sea of life on the crest-wave and are backed in the battle of existence by an abundant fund of vim and energy.
Max Heindel
#20. Cardinal Arithmetics is much older than Number Theory. People used to exchange things way before there were numbers. Expressing numbers like 762 is already a sign of a very advanced civilization.
Saharon Shelah
#21. I can see that 'Switched at Birth' is attracting audiences because of the diversity and the American Sign Language as well. American Sign Language is such a beautiful language, and people want more of that.
Sean Berdy
#22. Okay, so maybe he didn't sign it with a heart or an XOXO, but the man was going for coffee. Gotta love that.
Gemma Halliday
#23. People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality.
Thomas Olde Heuvelt
#24. To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.
Jean Vanier
#25. Each holy temple stands as a symbol of our membership in the Church, as a sign of our faith in life after death, and as a sacred step toward eternal glory for us and our families.
Russell M. Nelson
#26. I walk alone to the store
And it's quiet uptown
I never liked the quiet before
I take the children to church on Sunday
A sign of the cross at the door
And I pray
That never used to happen before
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#27. When I was taking my canoeing lessons I was given this oar to practice with, and I decided to have everyone sign it. All the cast and crew signed it and now I'm going to frame it.
Jared Gilman
#28. A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.
Christopher Hitchens
#29. I shot me a nice deer, and I hung it on the den wall in my house. My neighbor comes over and he says, Did you shoot that thing? I said, Nope. He ran through the wall and got stuck. Here's your sign.
Bill Engvall
#30. Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from their neck saying, 'Make me feel important.' Never forget this message when working with people.
Mary Kay Ash
#31. The sign seemed like her fortune, her horoscope, her Magic 8 Ball answer.
Melissa Senate
#32. We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event ... we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off.
Ted Turner
#33. Forgetting offences is a sign of sincere repentance. If you keep the memory of them, you may believe you have repented but you are like someone running in his sleep. Let no one consider it a minor defect, this darkness that often clouds the eyes even of spiritual people.
John Climacus
#34. The sign of a great Master is his ability to win a won game quickly and painlessly
Irving Chernev
#35. Reach up to the feet of God, looking for a sign ... it was right here all the time ...
David Lee Roth
#36. Its a sign of weakness to lament about things which you entirely have no control over.
Auliq Ice
#37. Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse.
Andrew Piper
#38. Question: Why is that MC's be wack
And major labels wanna sign that crap?
A-yo ... funk that!
Phife Dawg
#39. Maybe that was the sign of a true intellectual--someone who could accept the weird. --John Cole in Calling Mr. King
Ronald De Feo
#40. Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence.
Mahatma Gandhi
#41. It don't mean nothing til you sign it on the dotted line.
Richard Marx
#42. The main reason intuition is so important is this: It is a clear sign that you are connecting with your inner spiritual guidance system. Intuition is a direct signal from your deepest self that you are navigating from your true center.
Gay Hendricks
#43. There is no greater sign of innate misery than a love of teasing.
Anthony Powell
#44. It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign.
Derick Hougaard
#45. It would be more accurate to say that human fatherhood is metaphorical, a temporal sign of an eternal reality. God's fatherhood is true fatherhood in the truest sense.
Scott Hahn
#46. Religion was all about getting dumbasses to line up and sign up, making people pay today for heaven tomorrow.
Robert Ferrigno
#47. A man who's courtin' a woman shouldn't disappear at the first sign of a little trouble.
Debra Holland
#48. We spent the rest of the afternoon searching for the lost Girl Scout troop. We found them asleep, drugged with music. They were curled around a sign that said, "No All-Female Groups Beyond This Point. Satyr Breeding Area." Satyrs have a peculiar sense of humor. I
Laurell K. Hamilton
#49. Of course, we have known for a long time that a word, like any verbal sign, is a unity of two components.
Roman Jakobson
#50. Mal did as he was told without a backward glance at any of them. Tom did see him hold up his middle finger as he left.
He guessed it was kind of like his gang sign. Or his message to the entire world.
S.E. Jakes
#51. Gratitude develops faith. The surest path out of a slump is marked by the road sign "thank you, God."
Max Lucado
#52. I think that during the shoot, you should never be there, unless something goes really wrong and as producer, you're responsible. The sign you did your job right is if you are not there.
Guillermo Del Toro
#53. The whole world is an omen and a sign. Why look so wistfully in a corner? Man is the Image of God. Why run after a ghost or a dream? The voice of divination resounds everywhere and runs to waste unheard, unregarded, as the mountains echo with the bleatings of cattle.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#54. To me, crying is not a sign of weakness. She wants it that bad and she puts her whole heart into it. She had really high expectations, and that's why she's so good. She just had a bad game.
Kerri Walsh
#55. My divine sign indicates the future to me.
Socrates
#56. There were no route maps posted on the walls, but a Wonderland-style sign commanding, 'If you know where you are, then please tell others.
Elizabeth Wein
#57. Despite a frenzy of East-West diplomacy and negotiations, there was little sign that tensions were easing.
Anonymous
#59. I thought that there could be no revolt against nature. I accepted the landscape without dreaming that, behind, there still prowled large skeletons without fur. With just one sign, I thought I was able to make them rise up outside their refuges ...
Roger Vitrac
#60. (24/7) once you sign on to be a mother, that's the only shift they offer.
Jodi Picoult
#61. The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand.
Swami Vivekananda
#62. I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine ...
Teresa Of Avila
#63. To marvel at the wonders of the gospel is a sign of faith.
Gerald Causse
#64. If you are afraid to write it,
that's a good sign.
I suppose you know when you're
writing the
truth when you're terrified.
Yrsa Daley-Ward
#65. Like two doomed ships that pass in storm
We had crossed each other's way:
But we made no sign, we said no word,
We had no word to say;
Oscar Wilde
#67. A danger sign that fellow-obsessionals will at once recognize is the tendency to regard the happiest moments of your life as those that occur when someone who has an appointment to see you is prevented from coming.
Peter Medawar
#68. There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'.
Ronald Reagan
#69. Sometimes it takes more than shouting it to show your pride. It takes more than a sign, a fabulous outfit, or a month of parades. Pride has to resonate from within; shine out to everyone around you. It has mean something to you and only you first before you announce it to the world.
Solange Nicole
#70. It is a good sign in a nation when things are done badly. It shows that all the people are doing them. And it is bad sign in a nation when such things are done very well, for it shows that only a few experts and eccentrics are doing them, and that the nation is merely looking on.
G.K. Chesterton
#71. I have yet to meet the famous Rational Economic Man theorists describe. Real people have always done inexplicable things from time to time, and they show no sign of stopping.
Charles S. Sanford Jr.
#72. Simplicity is a great virtue, but oversimplification can actually be a vice, a sign of laziness.
N. T. Wright
#73. Yes, it hurts to fall
ache, tenderness
- but each scar is a sign your system is working.
Kelli Russell Agodon
#74. Sign by elevator put up by computer geeks in office building: REMEMBER: FIRST YOU PILAGE, THEN YOU BURN. THOSE WHO DO NOT COMPLY WILL BE SUSPENDED FROM THE RAIDING TEAM. In Mr Perfect
Linda Howard
#75. When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
Damon Albarn
#76. It must be a burden, not even being able to say you were just obeying orders." "Well, that is always a lie, or a sign you are fighting for an unworthy cause, or still have a very long way to develop civilizationally.
Iain M. Banks
#77. If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Laurence J. Peter
#78. There is no greater sign of a general decay of virtue in a nation, than a want of zeal in its inhabitants for the good of their country.
Joseph Addison
#79. I apologise if you all know this, but the point is many, many people do not. Why else would they open a large play area for children, hang up a sign saying "Giant Kid's Playground", and then wonder why everyone says away from it? (Answer: everyone is scared of the Giant Kid.)
Lynne Truss
#80. Poetry is perhaps what teaches us to nurture the charming illusion: how to be reborn out of ourselves over and over again, and use words to construct a better world, a fictitious world that enables us to sign a pact for a permanent and comprehensive peace ... with life.
Mahmoud Darwish
#81. Every success in limiting armaments is a sign that the will to achieve mutual understanding exists, and every such success thus supports the fight for international law and order.
Ludwig Quidde
#82. We care not how many see us in choler, when we rave and bluster, and make as much noise and bustle as we can; but if the kindest and most generous affection comes across us, we suppress every sign of it, and hide ourselves in nooks and covert.
Walter Savage Landor
#83. Only one store on the block looked open, its windows glaring with neon. The sign above the door said something like CRSTUY'S WATRE BDE ALPACE. "Crusty's Water Bed Palace?" Grover translated. It didn't sound like a place I'd ever go except in an emergency, but this definitely qualified.
Rick Riordan
#84. Most business problems can be solved if you can teach yourself to look beyond the dollar sign.
Harvey MacKay
#85. One day, when I can afford you, I will sign you,' he said, before we went our separate ways.
Didier Drogba
#86. If there is one thing I have learned on this incredible journey we call life, it is this: the sign of a truly successful individual is humility.
Naveen Jain
#87. To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.
James Bay
#88. A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.
Voltaire
#89. It was very nerve-wracking for me. I had to be drunk and have a threesome. I'm not that guy. Bobby Cannavale is that guy. But it was Vegas and things got crazy, and it happened. We go to Vegas to try to sign Elvis Presley and things get crazy. My character [in Vinyl] is stoned.
Ray Romano
#90. Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.
Emma Goldman
#91. I had my autograph down by the age of 13. I used to sign it everywhere.
Sophie Ellis-Bextor
#92. By the time Jon Snow signed the parchment the Braavosi drew up, both of them were half-drunk and quite unhappy. Jon thought that a good sign.
George R R Martin
#93. Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted. Though commonly flaunted as a sign of sophistication, it can be an opportunity for one-upmanship and an excuse for misanthropy, especially against the young.
Steven Pinker
#94. The profession of the ministry is like matrimony: if it is possible for you to keep out of it, it's a sign that you've no business to go into it!
Margaret Deland
#95. They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech was worth noting and proclaiming.
Nancy Mitford
#96. It is a sign of the times, and not a very good sign, that these days it is necessary and not only necessary but urgent to interest minds in the fate of Mind, that is to say, in their own fate.
Paul Valery
#97. Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic?
Dov Davidoff
#98. The radio station was playing Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, a sure sign that things were much worse than they appeared.
Gary Shteyngart
#99. Any sign that the newbie regarded his or her time as of any value whatsoever was a bad omen,
Hope Jahren
#100. The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art.
Oscar Wilde
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