Top 100 Signal Quotes
#1. The smoke is a signal; it means the Salamander is coming. For she is a war-torn disaster, and her comfort is the gun.
R.R. Washburn
#2. When you smile at people, its a signal to what you are bringing to their life.
Sean Stephenson
#3. One of the most beautiful sights in my neighborhood is on High Holy Days when people walk to temple. Not only does this bring the traditional legendary weather, but it gives off a psychic signal to slow down.
George Vecsey
#4. Birds ... are sensitive indicators of the environment, a sort of "ecological litmus paper," ... The observation and recording of bird populations over time lead inevitably to environmental awareness and can signal impending changes.
Roger Tory Peterson
#5. Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.
William Throsby Bridges
#6. As in the autumn-time the leaves fall off, First one and then another, till the branch Surrenders all its spoils to the earth; In similar fashion did these evil seeds of Adam throw Themselves from the group, one by one, into the boat At Charon's signal, as a bird is called to its lure.
Dante Alighieri
#7. In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress towards a victory.
Alfred North Whitehead
#9. That would be such a life-changing thing, for us all to know that there are other beings out there who we could potentially communicate with, or maybe we are listening to a signal that they transmitted hundreds of millennia ago.
Paul Allen
#10. In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.
Douglas Adams
#11. Strong convictions do not necessarily signal a powerful sense of self: very often quite the opposite. Intensely held beliefs may be no more than a person's unconscious effort to build a sense of self to fill what, underneath, is experienced as a vacuum.
Gabor Mate
#12. Shame is difficult. It's a weapon and a signal. It can paralyze or motivate. My friend Louis CK likes to say that "guilt is an intersection" Getting out of it means making a choice and moving forward.
Amy Poehler
#13. There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#14. Free from what? What does Zarathustra care! But brightly your eyes should signal to me: free for what? Can
Friedrich Nietzsche
#15. The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry.
B.F. Skinner
#16. What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.
Alice Miller
#17. Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.
Nicholas Carr
#18. Speed bumps in relationships are temporary rises in the road that signal you to slow down, step back, and reassess the situation.
Nicole Huggins
#19. Mr. Green Sweater looks normal, but his wingman looks hard-core bad boy," said Vee. "Emits a certain don't-mess-with-me signal. Tell me he doesn't look like Dracula's spawn. Tell me I'm imagining things.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#20. I've never understood why the end of a relationship - especially one involving children - has to immediately signal a descent into hatred and toxicity.
John Niven
#21. Once you become aware of what stands in your way and become willing to release it, you signal the universe that you are ready to manifest the life you were meant to live.
Cherie Carter-Scott
#22. I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best.
Atom Egoyan
#23. It doesn't matter if you can't get a cell phone signal or Wi-Fi where you are. You are always connected to Source.
Neale Donald Walsch
#24. The trouble with England, he thinks, is that it's so poor in gesture. We shall have to develop a hand signal for 'Back off, our prince is fucking this man's daughter.' He is surprised that the Italians have not done it. Though perhaps they have, and he just never caught on.
Hilary Mantel
#25. When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe.
Rhonda Byrne
#26. If you see, in the spectrum of a planet host star, strange chemical elements, it can be a signal from a civilization which is there.
Garik Israelian
#27. You just have to know the signal to get them to stop or they might just suck you dry.
Patricia A. Rasey
#28. Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.
Ambrose Bierce
#29. Having the opportunity to follow the market frequently gives you the opportunity to see if you need to reevaluate your portfolio. But reevaluating your portfolio shouldn't trigger a sell signal so frequently.
Maria Bartiromo
#30. Flora threw herself forward at the signal, and the men standing nearby cheered. Two of them ran alongside for a few steps, waving their hats. "Go, pig! Pull, pig!
Chris Kurtz
#32. Pain in all its forms is also a message, a kind of distress signal to our hearts and minds. There are times when it's really important to tune into that message and just listen to it.
Karyn Kusama
#33. Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?
Robert A. Heinlein
#34. We know what molecules are needed to sense light - what turns that signal that detects light into an electrical signal. We know how smells are detected. But we have a vast number of senses for which we know what the signal is, but we don't know what the receiver is.
Martin Chalfie
#35. His fear-inflamed mind sent the control-signal to his finger-joint to fold back. The trigger sliced back. The blast seemed to lift the booth clear off the floor, drop it down again. A pin-wheel of vacancy appeared in the glass, flinging off shards and slivers.
Cornell Woolrich
#36. But as long as negativity is there, use it. Use it as a kind of signal that reminds you to be more present.
Eckhart Tolle
#37. If we didn't execute bankers and rogue traders found guilty of financial mischief, it might give them the clear signal that it's actually okay, and then where would we be?
Jasper Fforde
#38. Books gave us a way to shape ourselves - to form our thoughts and to signal to each other who we were and who we wanted to be. They were part of our self-fashioning, no less than our clothes.
Rebecca Mead
#39. I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.
Faye Wattleton
#40. It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
Ike Skelton
#41. If you feel lonely within your relationship, pay attention to this inner warning signal!
Doreen Virtue
#42. The feedback women are getting at work is amazingly ineffective or vague. You need to signal to your boss or senior colleagues that you want honest feedback, and that you promise not to take it too personally.
Sylvia Ann Hewlett
#43. Two minutes worth of signal analysis told me all I needed to know. This station "talks" to the dark matter universe about what goes on inside."
"How did you cobble together a jammer so quickly?"
"I had one on me.
Howard Tayler
#44. Mostly he misses Jutta: her loyalty, her obstinacy, the way she always seems to recognize what is right. Though in Werner's weaker moments, he resents those same qualities in his sister. Perhaps she's the impurity in him, the static in his signal that the bullies can sense.
Anthony Doerr
#45. While reactive boundaries signal something that needs to be dealt with, proactive boundaries fix something that is broken.
Henry Cloud
#46. The introduction of the word 'intuition' by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.
Alasdair MacIntyre
#47. I constantly signal to the Iraqi leaders that our patience, or the patience of the American people, is running out
Zalmay Khalilzad
#48. The Crusades - the most signal and most durable monument of human folly that has yet appeared in any age or nation.
David Hume
#49. I think the messiness and embodied nature of modern life just produces an enhanced signal for our attention.
Richard Davidson
#50. I'm not an answer," she said. "I'm a question." She might also be a message incarnate, a signal in the flesh, even if she hadn't yet figured out what story she was supposed to tell.
Jeff VanderMeer
#51. The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.
Thomas Macdonough
#52. I feel so often that depression is a signal of more that wants to be expressed within you. There is an innate impulse in everyone to express more of who they truly are, and you get depressed when you don't feel you're able to do that.
Barbara Marx Hubbard
#53. So the controversy over Duck Dynasty sends a clear signal to anyone who has anything to risk in public life: Say nothing about the sinfulness of homosexual acts or risk sure and certain destruction by the revolutionaries of the new morality. You have been warned.
Albert Mohler
#54. I wish there were a secret signal you could use to communicate: HELLO. I AM OFFICIALLY COOL WITH SILENCE. Not
Becky Albertalli
#55. Asking, "How much is it?" is THE BIGGEST buying signal. Telling me, "Your price is too high." is THE SECOND BIGGEST buying signal
Jeffrey Gitomer
#56. God planted fear in the soul as truly as he planted hope and courage. It is a kind of bell or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance on the approach of danger. It is the soul's signal for rallying.
Henry Ward Beecher
#57. cornuto," a hand signal representing horns that is an ancient satanist symbol.
Nicky
#58. We have met the Devil of Information Overload and his impish underlings, the computer virus, the busy signal, the dead link, and the PowerPoint presentation.
James Gleick
#59. Fayza leaned in, squinting, as if she didn't hear me correctly: one of the library of power moves that adults used to signal that other adults were fucking idiots.
Daryl Gregory
#60. That guy in a twenty-five cent bleacher seat is as much entitled to know a call as the guy in the boxes. He can see my arm signal even if he can't hear my voice.
Bill Klem
#61. Excellence is a signal to God that we are going to dig our ditches but if You don't make it rain, all of this is a waste of time.
Jeff Henderson
#62. No" in the room might signal to everyone that they should keep silent.
Sam Killermann
#63. It is a duet, and like most duets moreover in that one listens attentively only for the signal which announces the advent of one's own voice.
Henry Miller
#64. America's downgrade may serve as a wakeup call for its policymakers. It is an unambiguous and loud signal of the country's eroding economic strength and global standing. It renders urgent the need to regain the initiative through better economic policymaking and more coherent governance.
Mohamed El-Erian
#65. It struck me that this was the second time in a couple of days that just yelling someone's name on the street could have spelled disaster. Then it struck me how wrong that was. To have to keep your life sectioned off like that. A signal that you'd fallen into a bad way to live.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#66. Signal transduction science recognizes that the fate and behavior of an organism is directly linked to its perception of the environment.
Bruce H. Lipton
#67. Based on something called a 'ping,' where you literally ping a cell phone using an electronic signal that then reflects the location of where that cell phone is.
Jeanine Pirro
#68. Emotions, or feelings, have a function. They tell us something. They are a signal....Anger tells us that our boundaries have been violated. Much like a nation's radar defense system, angry feelings serve as an "early warning system" telling us we're in danger of being injured or controlled.
John Townsend
#69. Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to music.
Tim Hecker
#70. Finding patterns is easy in any kind of data-rich environment; that's what mediocre gamblers do. The key is in determining whether the patterns represent noise or signal.
Nate Silver
#73. Q. How is the turn signal used in Florida? A. It is used to indicate to other motorists that you do not realize your turn signal is blinking.
Dave Barry
#74. Well, I think first of all, probably the most fundamental thing is that we are a mixed-signal analog semiconductor company, which, along with some of the other well-known names in the industry, enjoys very good economics.
David Milne
#75. According to the belief, molecules closer together than 200 nanometers could not be told apart with focused light. This is because, in a packed molecular crowd, the molecules shout out their fluorescence simultaneously, causing their signal, their voices, to be confused.
Stefan Hell
#76. Our neighbors turned to stare at us, because Miles Richter laughing was one of those things that the Mayans had predicted would signal the end of the world. He wasn't particularly loud about it, but it was Miles laughing, a sound no mortal had ever heard before.
Francesca Zappia
#77. When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies.
Joel Hodgson
#78. Perhaps the strongest signal of reengagement with Southeast Asia was the U.S.'s accession to the Southeast Asian Treaty of Amity and Cooperation.
Benigno Aquino III
#79. The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller
#80. I dial up the suicide prevention hotline, get a busy signal, and wonder if that's a sign of the times.
Troy James Weaver
#81. All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
Emile M. Cioran
#82. Life is all about change. We constantly transform all our life. Struggle is nothing more than a signal and confirmation of the needed changes that are ahead of us on the road of our lives
Timothy Pina
#83. That is what is most special about achieving equality - the positive signal that it will send the world over to the next generation of girls dreaming of winning Wimbledon or becoming a scientist or going to the moon as an astronaut.
Maria Sharapova
#84. He was out of food, but he could look tomorrow and he could build a signal fire tomorrow and get more wood tomorrow . . . The
Gary Paulsen
#85. 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.
Stephen Curry
#86. Marcie: Neurons that play together stay together, that is how we make connections.
Danny: You want to play on my neural network? Are you sending me a modulation signal?
Andrew Neff
#87. A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories
George Eliot
#88. The index is retrospective. The crucial alpha, the entropy, the signal modulating that linear advance ... comes from knowledge of the entrepreneurial surprises harbored on the edge of the noise.
George Gilder
#89. I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
Aaron Sorkin
#90. Mammoths, building a signal to Mars, on the North American ice cap.
Arthur C. Clarke
#91. It never happened
but it seemed like
there were times when rot
stopped
waited like a streetcar
at a signal.
Charles Bukowski
#92. X? Seriously? What, do you meet them in darkened parking garages? Do you have a Bat-Signal or something?
Jane Seville
#93. The faster you can signal for rescue, the faster you get out of that situation.
Joe Teti
#94. We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.
Nelson Mandela
#95. The signal for the train's departure was a very bright red; that is about as passionate a statement as I can get into that scene.
Ford Madox Ford
#96. The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.
Barry Commoner
#97. Moreover, as the leadership of the House confirmed last year, the Administration remains opposed to a congressional resolution on the Armenian Genocide due to Turkish objections. This approach sends absolutely the wrong signal to Turkey and to the rest of the world.
Patrick J. Kennedy
#98. Because deep down you know that this small piece of changing fortune is a signal of things to come.
Markus Zusak
#99. New Orleans has to learn to live with water rather than in fear of water, and we need a master plan that shows us how to do this. It's so critical that we send a signal to everyone in the country that we're serious about rebuilding New Orleans.
Billy Tauzin
#100. Designing renders visible our hopes and dreams. It is the first signal of human intentions.
William McDonough
