Top 165 Signing Quotes

I have total respect for anyone who discovers a band like Snow Patrol. I would be hopeless at signing a rock band, or anything alternative, cause I don’t know what that audience are into and I don’t particularly like that kind of music.

I go by the script and the director. Decisions about signing on the dotted line are mine. Of course, mom and dad listen to the scripts but I think I’m a better judge.

I’ve literally never seen a crowd react to a band the way they react to the Polysics. Signing them to MySpace Records was an obvious choice. I wanted to be the person to bring this seasoned band to a new culture and audience. I’m really proud of them.

I started out as a duo with Mis-Teeq’s Sabrina Washington, and we worked for four or five years before signing a record deal. I had no money, and I was taking part-time jobs just to earn the train fare to get to rehearsals.

I was one of those little girls who practiced signing autographs since I was 5 years old.

I’ve learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they’re signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss – no matter what they tell you.

As both a consumer and producer of newspaper articles, I have no beef with pay walls. But before signing up, I read the fine print.

I love to meet my fans, and after every show I usually hang out for a few hours, talking to my fans, signing autographs, and selling T-shirts.

By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.

Signing bonus? Just give me a contract. I’ll sign for free.

The fact is that the coach wanted to recruit a new striker, and with Aubameyang’s signing at Arsenal, there were three top strikers, and that’s why I decided to leave.

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

It is not always about signing star forwards and midfielders.

At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my books. The question rattled around in my head. I had no idea that I was obsessed with furniture.

I’d be lying if I didn’t tell you that money was a big factor in signing for Bare Knuckle – we’re prize fighters, and our success is measured by the size of our purse.

Years ago, I was asked to come up to do a store signing in Vermont. The short version is the two younger guys who own the store pick me up at the airport and start driving me around Vermont, showing me the sights and the textile mills and the restaurants, and the punchline is there’s no store. There is no store!

Some of the fans here were not too sure about their club signing a player from their biggest rivals. Fortunately, we had a great season and won the League title for the first time in four years. Now, I think, everyone can say it was good business.

Signing up to be an organ donor should be at least as easy as downloading a song to your iPhone.

I remember one time 50 was offering me different things to come and be apart of G-Unit. I didn’t really do it because it was kind of at the time where they were signing Mobb Deep, Ma$e and M.O.P. I didn’t know if I wanted to be up under something.

I joined Liverpool in 1978. I was the record signing between English clubs.

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me.

When I left West Ham in 2004 there was a chance of them signing me instead of Spurs, but it isn’t something I think about too often. I’ve been spoilt during my career.

I wasn’t so sure about signing up for ‘Law & Order.’ I liked the show, but another TV series? I’ll tell you, though, it’s been great, and I had no idea how popular the show was.

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, ‘I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.’

Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He’s not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.

I just thought any workout that is effective and I can do while laying down I’m signing up for.

Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.

The technical director’s role is very important – not just on contracts, not just on signing players and seeing through the philosophy but also in taking a bit of weight off the manager.

The budget is absolutely interlinked – our ability to fund our education system, to clean up drinking water, is linked with our ability to rebuild roads in this state. I’m not signing anything unless it’s all done together.

In the early 1970s. 1971, ’72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren’t signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

Victorian feminists made the mistake of making membership of the sisterhood conditional on signing up to a particular policy agenda. Marxist feminists made a similar mistake of saying, ‘You can’t be a real feminist unless you join with miners, the unions, the vegans.’

The signing of the Israel-PLO accord is more than a political milestone. It is a transformative event which touches every Jewish family – physically, emotionally, spiritually.

In Ukraine as well as in Brazil, Manchester City is now considered one of the best teams in the world, and after I signed, people back home in Brazil congratulated me for signing for one of the top teams in the world.

When I moved to Dallas, I had two big goals. The first, of course, had to do with basketball. I came here to work hard and earn the respect of the fans. The second goal was more personal. I wanted to put down roots in Dallas. That was one of the upsides of signing a four-year deal.

I’ve only three times in my career felt I absolutely had to play a part and the first two I got close and was vetoed – by the same person actually. So when ‘Strike’ came along I had no qualms about signing on for something I was potentially still going to be doing in 10 years.

Before signing ‘Dawat-E-Ishq,’ I came across few more offers, but none of them interested me. This film has a soul, and I went for it.

It’s no secret that my process is a little bit loose and can be a little bit infuriating to a studio if they don’t know what they’re signing up for.

When people start talking about venture capital and finances and how to create this and do that, a lot of it, I swear, it’s like sitting in an escrow meeting when all you want to do is buy a house, and you’re signing 50 pieces of paper, but you have no idea what they’re talking about.

We had a showing of Battlestar in LA last week. I walked out the door and there were 50 people. I signed a ton of autographs. Other actors walked away without signing. These are the fans. I guess it depends. on who you are.

The signing bonus is a ton of money, especially for a 21-year-old. But I’m not going to live off that money. At some point, I’m going to live off a college degree.

I don’t talk about films even after I sign them because between the signing and the shooting, anything can happen. I am not superstitious, it’s just that I don’t like talking about a film that is not completed.

I campaigned on signing the toughest abortion bill in the country.

The tribulation period is seven years, and when the signing of the covenant occurs, people who know the Bible and take it literally will know that, seven years later, Christ is going to come in His power and glory.

It’s one thing getting the job of Doctor Who, which is wonderful. And then the next thing they say to you is, ‘We’re going to announce it live on television!’ And you think, ‘That’s not exactly what I thought I was signing up for!’

Signing for Leicester, they gave me a great platform to go and play for England as well.

In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don’t require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don’t.

I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United.

The fans get a bit frustrated with me because I’m not signing straight away. They can get on your back a little bit, but this is football, and you have to accept these things.

As soon as a good script comes my way, I waste no time in signing a project.

TCU – they told me they were going to offer me a scholarship and kind of drug it out. I told other schools I wasn’t interested because I thought I was going to be there. They disappointed me and kind of hung me out to dry right before signing day.

If I was to become a manager, I would not want someone else to be signing the players for the team that my job depended on.

Upon arriving, meeting their teachers and signing up for classes, these students began to realize that their attendance at Delaware State University was not a goal achieved, but rather a dream being sewn – a first step, if you will.

Signing to a major, there weren’t many bands from our sphere that were doing it. I mean, obviously R.E.M. had done it, and Husker Du and the Replacements had done it, and maybe Soul Asylum, but that was probably about it. Those four bands were pretty much the only ones from that milieu that had signed to a major.

While signing ‘Sakhavu,’ I wasn’t aware of the depth of communism in Kerala. I was born and brought up in Chennai, and our political ideologies are very different.

You want a political culture that works to create conditions under which an economy can thrive? Since signing the Oslo Accords with the Palestinians, Israel has spent two decades working to unshackle its economy from its socialist roots, with remarkable results.

That’s the hard part of television: When you walk into the network tests, you’re signing away seven years of your life.

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.

I’m not a signing or dancing man.

I was totally ignored for a while… that’s a hazard of signing with a small company who say how small they are and how close to the artists they are. Suddenly they don’t have any time for you.

I never really do much research before signing a film. It is just the script and character that I concentrate on.

I once came back from a book tour where sleek black cars driven by nice men in black suits waited for me at every hotel, took me to every signing, brought me back, opened car doors for me. They were great. I was great. It was a wonderful tour.

I’m very thankful that I can make people happy just by signing my name.

Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.

I suppose there must be idiots who dream of signing deals with publishers while fully intending to drink martinis in cool bars or ride around on skateboards. But the actual writers I know are experts in neurotic self-torture. Every page of writing is the result of a thousand tiny decisions and desperate acts of will.

This mum comes up, she’s got a five-year-old kid and she says, ‘Can he have your autograph, you are his favourite person in the whole world.’ I thought, ‘How cool is that? I’ve got five-year-old fans,’ and as I’m signing this autograph, the mum goes, ‘Yeah, yeah, you’re by far the best Wiggle.’

When we signed Taylor Swift, people said, ‘You’re signing a 15-year-old female country artist? Good luck!’

You can’t say it’s good when guys out there are signing minor league deals and they would be big league players on 80 percent of the teams, but why would a team sign a player when you can pay dirt, and they’re not going to win anyway?

The City project is much more than about signing a single player with a strong name, that would eventually cost a lot more.

Coming out of high school, however, I wasn’t a decorated recruit. As a result, I found myself one month from signing day with only two scholarship offers and they were from the Mid-American Conference.

I hate the idea of labels and saying you are member of one party or another and signing up to all sorts of policies that you don’t have a view on or don’t believe in. Because I’m not a politician, I don’t have to be consistent in what I say and how I behave.

Of all time, my craziest fan experience was signing a little baby’s forehead, like a newborn baby. The parents came up to me, they wanted me to sign his forehead.

None of us had any idea of how successful Downton was going to be. I thought I was signing up for another period drama that had a slightly modern feel. It had a freedom about it because it was coming out of the head of Julian Fellowes. Anything could happen and generally did.

In places where people read hardcover books and eat sushi, they’re not signing a five-year-old up to tackle another five-year-old.

I mostly play my dynasty or against someone in the hotel. I don’t really like online games. I can’t stand people yelling in my ear over a headset. I’d rather just play someone like Dwight Howard out in Orlando or people back home. For games like that, it’s cool, but just signing on and playing random people, I hate it.

To be honest, many of my well-wishers want me to play the solo lead in films. Maybe, it’s time to think about it. In fact, I have cut down on signing up multi-starrer films.

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.

I love the way managers and coaches can spin people signing a new contract into telling us it’s a transfer, ‘these are our transfers.’

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

In other restaurants you’ll see employees signing to each other, since we also hire many deaf men and women.

I like signing books for a living; I do. But you have no idea the panic that sets in. I am not a very good speller. Put me in a stresser situation, and I lose all capacity to recall how to spell the most simple names.

There’s this constant narrative of anxieties: Is the U.S. in decline? Is China rising? People forget… no other country is trying to play the role we play. They’re not signing up to be responsible for security in the Middle East, responsible for the global economy, responsible for enforcing international norms.

Aston Villa were signing this player and that player, and I was thinking this is my chance to get to the Premier League. I was a little bit over-eager to join them.

When people around me were signing films, I would wonder why nothing good came my way. See, I wasn’t desperate to do films, but I was desperate to do good films.

I wouldn’t mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I’ve learned in my career and applying that to another person’s.

I started my Twitter account for selfish reasons: I wanted to have a place to post updates on my book signing tour and stuff like that. I never realized that I’d have so much fun tweeting. It’s become the deleted scenes for my DVD of columns and podcasts.

I always give weightage to performance more than the length of my character. That has always been my criteria for signing a film.

When I decided to run for Congress, I saw it as an opportunity to serve the South Jersey community that had become my home after signing to play for the Philadelphia Eagles. I didn’t choose public service out of political ambition or a desire for power, and never once thought of making a career of it.

When you get that signing bonus, don’t start thinking about all the things you can do with $1 million.

I grew up making music in my mum’s basement, and I used to tell her I was going down there to work, and she’d say, ‘That’s not work. Go get a real job!’ It took me signing a record deal to change her opinion!

When I was in the UFC, I would get tickets for a fight, and then what I would do is go in the crowds and watch the rest of the fights. A lot of times, I would end up taking pictures and signing people’s books. I didn’t care if I got any money or anything. I was just there enjoying my time and watching the fights.

I just couldn’t turn down the money Bare Knuckle FC were throwing at me, so I ended up signing with them.

With Pavement, we had no managers and never had a lawyer. We got lucky with not signing any bad deals.

Every actor is alive because of his/her fans. I’m glad that my fans love me so much. I have an immense responsibility towards them. That’s why I’m careful while signing a film. What is also important is to judge whether I would like to watch the film as an audience or not.

People are always asking me for pictures, signing autographs, everywhere I go. Before, it used to irritate me, but I’ve learned to handle the situation. I cannot run away unless I lock myself in my room and never go out.

The potential success that could come with signing with a major label didn’t quite outweigh how important it was for me to make my music the way I knew it needed to be made.

If kids see you on the street and they want an autograph, that’s a big honour so I spend half an hour before I get in the ground and 40 minutes to an hour after the game with the Everton fans signing autographs.

If you ask me to get a six-pack in the interim between signing a film, I will not do it. I enjoy food and will be happy to feed myself a pizza or two and gorge on cakes. But, I have good control over my body.

It’s kind of interesting when you sign on to a show because you’re basically signing on to play a character because you only really see the first episode of the show.

If I’m at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.

I had to take a break to set up my production company. Managing a production house is a different ballgame. It’s not like signing a film and arriving on the set.

I can’t leave the studio until everything is as it should be. And I can’t put a record out unless I am completely happy with it. I never want to be at a signing and hear my album playing and think, ‘Oh no, I could have done that top note better.’

‘Don Quixote’ is a very political book that has been used by diplomats, politicians, guerrilla fighters, to inspire people, to convince them that they themselves can become quixotic. George Washington had a copy of the book on his desk when signing the U.S. Constitution.

I went to a performance-art high school, and a teacher there was signing me up for open-mic nights at the comedy club. I think about it now, and I think, ‘Well, that may be inappropriate,’ but it was great!’

A month before signing for Chelsea I was very close to doing so with Real Madrid as Mourinho said he wanted me.

When you sign up to become something, you’re signing up to become something larger than yourself. Represent something more than yourself.

I signed with an acting agent first; I wasn’t really interested in signing with a modeling agent. But that same day, they said, ‘You should go over to Ford.’

The signing of the Sex Pistols was a turning point for Virgin. It put the company on the map and, over the years, attracted bands such as Genesis, the Rolling Stones, Lenny Kravitz, and Janet Jackson. It also attracted Culture Club, who were ground-breaking.

When you’re signing an older player, part of it is can he help the rest of the team with his professionalism, with the way he goes about training every day?

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

It is super important to know what you are getting yourself into when signing a deal. I learned that the hard way.

Be very professional because it will get you a lot further. You have to treat people with the same respect whether they’re signing your checks or cleaning up after you.

At WSX the message was loud and clear consistently, even as a rookie signing a contract and kind of talking about things and getting into the nitty-gritty details. I felt like I was always given a lot of respect and in fact sometimes I thought they were almost tooting my own horn too loud I thought it was almost silly.

India made a big mistake by signing up to TRIPS. With a population of 1.3 billion, India can’t afford a monopoly in healthcare. Monopolies lead to higher prices and we can’t allow them in a country like India with so much poverty and misery. It was like signing our own death warrant.

I’m signing on to be an athlete, and it’s almost like Karl Marx’s theory on capitalism. I am both the worker and the product. I’m choosing to be a part of this system, thus I’m choosing to be part of the conditions that are set in this system.

Modelling is a bit baffling when you’re 18. I just thought, ‘Brilliant – I get paid lots of money to walk down a runway.’ I didn’t think I was signing up to be a poster girl for anything.

In the over two centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, millions of Americans have bravely served our nation in uniform so that all generations can continue to enjoy those same liberties.

The best players have to come to Madrid and Hazard is one of them. I think that Pogba would be an interesting signing.

Eden Hazard would be a perfect signing for Real Madrid, not only for his talents as a player but also as a leader.

We were walking through Petco Park after a signing, and this girl plowed through security and grabbed onto my neck and started pulling. Her grip was so impressively strong that this huge security guard was struggling to get her off of me. I was like, ‘Whoa. That’s kind of crazy.’

Thanks to President Obama for joining a unanimous Congress and signing S 2195 into law.

U.S. companies should consider all the implications before signing agreements that give employees carte blanche to funnel company information to law-enforcement agencies.

I made a sporting choice by signing in Paris. In terms of football, I have everything I need here. There are great players and great ambitions.

There’s nothing like meeting a girl at a signing and her telling me that she loves reading now, and she’s even writing her own stories.

The fitness industry has long thrived off the well-intended coming through their doors and signing up with dreams of self-improvement, only to fade into their couches. Those who stick with it often feel like hamsters on treadmills.

It’s the business I’m in, I can’t say that signing things is the favourite part of my career but you know that it has to be done and that there is no pain involved.

Apart from films I’ve been shooting a lot of ads and signing on with a lot of brands as their primary endorser.

Signing autographs is weird. I’m an introvert, so it’s been a strain in that way.

Dani Alves would be a great signing for AC Milan. He is one of the strongest full-backs in the world.

The first conversations I had for ‘Legion’ were right as the first year of ‘Fargo’ was ending. ‘Daredevil’ hadn’t even begun then, so when signing on, I had no real sense of the onslaught that was coming.

The Marlins were close to signing me, but in the end my wish was to come back to the Yankees.

When I was growing up Harlequins were interested in signing me because I was very fast and strong at an early age, but I wasn’t interested in rugby at the time.

After I signed for Man City, the people back home in Brazil congratulated me for signing for one of the top teams.

Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what’s on the brochure they sent you.

Just imagine, I was doing exams and signing autographs for other students. It was surreal. I’m really proud that I passed.

Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

But I guess the first time I made career money was signing a publishing deal when I was still at uni. That was when I waited to tell my mum that I was dropping out, which was half-way through my first year.

To me what’s most important when I’m signing a project is the character that I’m going to portray and whether it gives the opportunity to show different facets of my craft.

By signing a contract, you accept the conditions, but there are ways and forms. Players are privileged, but those who are in charge of these things have to understand that, in addition of players, we are also people.

I always recommend signing up to a race or charity event if you’re finding it tough to get going. I love it because it means I’m training for a reason. Being accountable is the best fear tactic for making you get fit.

With the intention of signing Lin back, I saw that I can help.

There is a lot of extra responsibility on you as a player from the academy. You’re expected to play and act as a signing, which is pressure, but in a way it pushes you to get a better performance out of yourself.

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.

When you are a pan-Indian actress, you are doing films in different languages and invariably, you end up not signing films in one language or the other for a brief period.

This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.

As soon as Liverpool declared their interest in signing me, it was a simple decision to make. A club with Liverpool’s history wants you? Come on, you just pack your bags and go. It will be an honour to wear the famous red shirt.

My signing of Derrick Rose was like anything in life, I think it was just luck. I played in Chicago. Derrick is from Chicago.

When I was still at Interscope, I told them about Rae Sremmurd and we were talking about signing them. I was like, ‘This is the hood Backstreet Boys, the black *NSYNC. This is the most ratchet pop is gonna get and this is the most pop hip-hop is gonna get.’

PSG were interested in signing me, but we never entered negotiations.

Why wasn’t Michelle Obama, on October 1st, at the computer with her family signing up for Obamacare, or Jay Carney? They have their own gold-plated health care plan.

Instead of signing 10 films a year, I’d rather do a couple of films where I can give my best performance and am appreciated by audiences.

The administration is out lying through its teeth about all these people signing up and how great Obamacare is now. Meanwhile, Obama continues to break the law each and every day with executive actions – not even executive orders, executive actions – and proclamations.

When I was signing up for the University of Southern California’s music program, I flipped a coin to decide my major. If it came up heads, it would be flute – tails would be voice.

I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.

Sometimes, films that you do with a lot of care and look good at the time of signing may not work out for some reason or other.

I primarily look at how a role is laid out by the director. I take into consideration my co-stars, before signing a role.

I started my modelling career by sending my pictures to American Apparel and eventually meeting my friend Petra Collins, who started shooting me for magazines around New York. I ended up signing a modelling contract with Wilhelmina Models a couple of years later.

When I was in college, I would go out, and I would go to these open mic nights at Stitches and Nick’s Comedy Stop, so I was going to classes during the day, and then at night, I would be signing up on the lists.

There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way I can, even if it’s just by signing an autograph. A child’s smile is worth more than all the money in the world.

Ajax have a set model, a defined youth programme – Barcelona have one too, and Juventus. And Atletico Madrid do too. Real Madrid don’t – because they alternate developing their own players with signing talent.

I’m always signing blank deeds. That’s how an escrow company works.

A platform is the base from which something big happens. In our case, we’re an entertainment platform in the sense that there are people signing up like MTV, Burberry, folks like Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber. And why? Because it’s their channel to control their entertainment to their fans.

I used to just sign papers and not pay no attention to what I’m signing.

I’m not just going to get a deal; I’m going to get the deal. And in my deal I got by signing with No I.D. to Def Jam, I got full creative control, the money was great, the contract was good, and I got to create the album that I wanted.

There was no social media. There’s not as many TV shows and magazines and things. Before you would release a single and you would go to HMV and do a signing and a performance, they don’t even have HMV anymore.

To have a live choir there on the stage and then these singers from different countries signing with us in real time through Skype, it’s as if there aren’t borders anymore.