Top 473 Signal Quotes & Sayings

The neuro-biology of playing a musical instrument is completely scientific, but it’s also an absolute miracle, that you’re taking basically a calcium bucket filled with salt-water that’s run by a weak electrical signal, and you’re using it to move your flesh around in order to manipulate an instrument which disturbs air molecules between you and the listener, and then the listener’s ears picks up those disturbed air molecules which generates a weak electrical signal to their calcium bucket full of salt water, and they feel a feeling. That’s miraculous, and that’s where I live.

When a thought hurts, that’s the signal that it isn’t true.

Fear is a great signal. It's like a pain signal. Hey, look at me, look at me. Get your focus right over here, at the pain.

Defeat is simply a signal to press onward.

Ostentation is the signal flag of hypocrisy.

If I need you I'll give you a signal.' What signal?" I'll imitate the scream of a terrified little girl

Anger is a warning signal. It points to problems.

People have got to make their best calls in what they think about a case when they're covering it. But I do think the lesson there, and I guess stating the obvious, that oral argument can as often send a false signal as an accurate signal about where the thing is going.

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

It's a spectacular signal. It's a signal many of us have wanted to observe since the time LIGO was proposed. It shows the dynamics of objects in the strongest gravitational fields imaginable, a domain where Newton's gravity doesn't work at all, and one needs the fully non-linear Einstein field equations to explain the phenomena.

Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

Sometimes writer's block is no more than a signal that you have not done enough research.

Thoughts are sending out that magnetic signal that is drawing the parallel back to you

I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

Do not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal.

Rituals are a good signal to your unconscious that it is time to kick in.

If you feel lonely within your relationship, pay attention to this inner warning signal!

Listen to your body's wisdom, which expresses itself through signals of comfort and discomfort. When choosing a certain behavior, ask your body, "How do you feel about this?" If your body sends a signal of physical or emotional distress, watch out. If your body sends a signal of comfort and eagerness, proceed.

Inhumanity, n. One of the signal and characteristic qualities of humanity.

Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise.

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.

Occasionally one speaks... of signals or signal chains. It should be noted that the word signal means the transmission of signs and hence concerns the very principle of causal order.

When the signal is weak, the phone is working more, you drain the battery faster, so only use a phone when the signal is weak in a true emergency.

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.

If design is the first signal of human intention.

Magnitude may be compared to the power output in kilowatts of a [radio] broadcasting station; local intensity, on the Mercalli or similar scale, is then comparable to the signal strength noted on a receiver at a given locality. Intensity, like signal strength, will generally fall off with distance from the source; it will also depend on local conditions at the point of observation, and to some extent on the conditions along the path from source to that point.

The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a man and a women, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited.

If Republicans start losing their seats because they're climate deniers, that is a very salutary signal.

Can't stop the signal

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Physical infidelity is the signal, the notice given, that all fidelities are undermined.

Three fires is the international distress signal.

It's absolutely the wrong signal, I think, to those who have entered this country legally or those who may be considering illegal immigration for a lot of benefits to be provided... Emergency medical needs should be met, but otherwise I think send the wrong signal to those who have come into the country legally and those who may be considering illegal immigration. So as you know, I've called for an increase in the border patrol agents. I've looked at that from both the standpoints of drugs and to prevent illegal immigration, but I think that's where the focus should be.

I have been lucky to have got big offers like 'Kalyug,' 'Traffic Signal' or 'Dhol.'

Death loves a shining mark, a signal blow.

Impeachment isn't a tool that should be used to virtue signal.

Accuracy of signal and free flow of information define sanity in my epistemology.

It's good that it hurts. Pain is the signal that you're confused, that you're in a lie.

When you give thanks as though you have already received what you want, you are emitting a powerful signal to the Universe.

It's almost as if men who get tribal tattoos are trying to signal that they are dangerous, they're to be respected, and they're powerful.

The human voice sounds thicker with a chorus and reverb than a dry signal.

I think Putin will have to find a way to signal, even if it's a modest signal, an openness to dialogue.

Just a little bit of exposure to this pulsed digital signal, which is now a cellphone signal, could weaken membranes of the brain.

Asking, "How much is it?" is THE BIGGEST buying signal. Telling me, "Your price is too high." is THE SECOND BIGGEST buying signal

God loves the noise as much as the signal.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

?You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.?

It's seriously unfortunate when an elected official of the federal government says she's [Michelle Bachmann] going to deliberately break the law. I don't know what kind of signal she thinks that sends, but if she believes that's a good signal, I'm sad for the country. I think that it's deeply, deeply, unfortunate that a member of Congress would, in effect, invite other people who feel that way to say, "Well, I don't have to do it either."

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.

I got much acclaim with 'Traffic Signal' but 'Superstar' didn't do well.

The environmental crisis is a signal of this approaching catastrophe.

When you smile at people, its a signal to what you are bringing to their life.

Profit is a signal that valuable services are being rendered to people on a voluntary basis.

If you have to signal a bartender to get a drink, then they're not looking at you, which is their problem. They're not doing their job. So don't feel rude when you signal a bartender. They're the ones who caused you to signal them. Go for it.

It's true that non-ionizing radiation lacks the power to have damage. But its damage seems to come from its modulated signal. So every 900 milliseconds, if you have a cellphone in your pocket, it's getting half of that radiation which is getting into you as it seeks the signal from the tower.

The first thing successful people do is view failure as a positive signal to success.

Fear is the soul's signal for rallying.

The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.