The Draughtsmans Contract Quotes

And my rookie contract, my first rookie contract was for $5,000. ~ Don Shula

A contract for the establishment of government, being nothing but a voluntary contract between individuals for their mutual benefit, differs, in nothing that is essential to its validity, from any other contract between man and man, or between nation and nation. ~ Lysander Spooner

Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the consequences. ~ Isadora Duncan

If two individuals enter into a contract to commit trespass, theft, robbery or murder upon a third, the contract is unlawful and void, simply because it is a contract to violate natural justice, or men's natural rights. ~ Lysander Spooner

In the world of contract killings, there is no arbitration. ~ Kenneth Eade

We were all ruled by the studio system. I signed a contract for seven years. ~ Leslie Caron

The record companies fell apart - quite deservedly. Their corrupting, all-binding contract nonsense had to stop. ~ John Lydon

By the age of 17, for me, we had got an recording contract, and, boom, I was gone. ~ Tommy Lee

So now, cut to ten years later, and I'm making this amazing contract with Pantene. It's incredible. ~ Maria Menounos

A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on. ~ Samuel Goldwyn

Success to me was getting out of that contract in one piece. ~ Brenda Holloway

I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract. ~ Jennifer O'Neill

The rolling contract was designed to specifically take away some of that retirement talk and retirement issue. ~ David Gill

In my experience, people are usually fired for reasons having to do with budgetary constraints, incompetence or not fulfilling the terms of a contract. ~ Michael Shermer

The oldest theory of contract is I think negative. ~ Frederick Pollock

I shall fulfill my contract, no more nor less. ~ Lillie Langtry

In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre. ~ Edmund White

The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract. ~ Cobi Jones

This will be my last contract. I wanted it to be a good one. ~ Leonard Little

If natural philosophy does not teach us the remedies for many diseases, it furnishes us at least with certain means to contract them. ~ Casanova

When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent. ~ Lorna Luft

I never stopped working, but I did let my contract run out. And I didn't really actively pursue it. ~ Juice Newton

When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games. ~ Eddie Murray

A job is a contract whereby you sell out a bit of your life daily ~ Sunday Adelaja

I didn't have a big-time contract out of college like most athletes. In fact I had no contract at all. ~ Lolo Jones

First of all, it was in my contract. I knew I would be directing an episode. ~ Anthony Michael Hall

After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract. ~ J.A. Konrath

A good businessman never makes a contract unless he's sure he can carry it through, yet every fool on earth is perfectly willing to sign a marriage contract without considering whether he can live up to it or not. ~ Dalton Trumbo

A prisoner is imprisoned by the crime that he has committed. A jailer is imprisoned - in the very same prison - by the employment contract that he has signed. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Democracy is an experimental system. I like it when states try out new ideas. I think we ought to expand, not contract, our federalist system. ~ Alex Tabarrok

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

I have a fun clause in my contract. If I'm not having fun, I can leave. ~ James Burrows

Any time you sign a big contract, you get in those later years, the expectations are high to play at a high level. ~ Johnathan Joseph

I really wanted to go onstage. Not movies. But I ended up under contract to Paramount. Now I adore film work. ~ Marion Ross

There is a contract between the reader and the writer. The readers give me their hard-earned cash, and I have to entertain them. ~ Jasper Fforde

Contract for Services Rendered, Alt Coulumb Kos Everburning to Royal Iskari Navy," she translated. "Since the common names are all the same, each contract needs a unique reference so we can tell which one we're talking about. ~ Max Gladstone

Wall Street sees a social fabric or social contract as inefficiencies, which need to be removed. ~ David Korten

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you. ~ Herbie Mann

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract. ~ Diane Lane

The one thing in my contract that they have backstage for me is bananas. And usually my assistant will go and get me chicken broth. ~ Joshua Bell

If you sit down with me, I guarantee I will accept any terms you offer for a contract. ~ David O. Selznick

In all my years of being with Pittsburgh, I never encountered a player taking a contract dispute into the season and letting that dispute affect the way he played. ~ Joe Greene

The marriage bond is more than a civil contract. It is a reward for loving well. ~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation. ~ Walter Winchell

When you go in to do a screen test, you negotiate your contract and sign all your paperwork before you even get on a plane. ~ Allison Tolman

Reading is at the beginning of the social contract ~ Alberto Manguel

If I was roped into a seven-year TV contract I'd probably hang myself. ~ Justin Theroux

His four year contract renewal: As always, I remain hopeful that Don Cherry won't be offered the same length contract. ~ Ron MacLean

I think our relationship with Epic had run its natural course, and it happened to coincide with the fulfillment of our contract. We decided not to resign with them. ~ Mike McCready

Maybe I'm old-school, but I always thought you honor a contract. ~ Brett Favre

TV is a fickle business. I'm only good for the length of my contract. ~ Tom Brokaw

You cannot contract to sell a baby. If they legalize this contract they may soon start bringing poor women in from other countries just to be breeders. ~ Mary Beth Whitehead

If I found the right guy, I think I would get married. Maybe. I just feel like it's just a contract. Why sign any more contracts, really? ~ Drea De Matteo

If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983. ~ L.E. Modesitt Jr.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing. ~ Jo Stafford

Well, I called him and I said, Mr. Wright, what can I do? Universal offered me a contract $300 a week. He says take it. You'll never get that money from me. ~ Anthony Quinn

A contract," Katri went on earnestly. "A contract is really much more remarkable than you might think. It doesn't just bind. I've noticed that for some people it's a relief to live with a contract. It frees them from indecision and confusion, they no longer have to choose. Both sides have agreed to share and assume responsibilities. It is, or ought to be, a deliberate promise where people have at least tried to be fair. ~ Tove Jansson

It's scary to sign a six-year contract for something that you don't necessarily know about. And yet I did that most every year. I've done a lot of failed pilots. ~ Lizzy Caplan

He saw his contract, written on a single sheet of yellow paper, as a great source of strength. Later, however, he came to realize that the contract saddled him with all the obligations and the company with none. ~ Ryunosuke Akutagawa

I'm not willing to sign a contract. They want everything. They want the rights to do the movie and everything else they can think of, forever. There's no limit to the contract. In this universe and universes to be discovered - I'm not making this up - this is in the contract. ~ Isabel Allende

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

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract. ~ Peter Steele

Most of the contract people at MGM stayed and stayed and stayed. Why? Because the studio looked after them. Warner Brothers wouldn't - they were always spanking somebody or selling them down the river. ~ Ann Rutherford

I have a contract but it's not a commitment in the ordinary sense. It's our ongoing conversation. ~ Diane Sawyer

People think I should be a multi-millionaire if I had gotten the right contract. I'm not getting anything for all that commercial stuff they do. But I would have had to pay for that. ~ Jonathan Frid

The first thing you should do with an actor is not sign a contract with him. Take him to dinner. And take him for a walk afterwards. ~ Elia Kazan

It took a long time to get out of my contract. The producers thought I was negotiating for more money. ~ Sherry Stringfield

I often say that if you want to really want to understand the contract of marriage, just ask anyone who has been divorced. The marriage contract is one of property rights. Or maybe you can look in the Bible to see what Adam had to say about divorce, since Eve was his second wife. ~ Harvey Fierstein

So, when I got the contract for my album, even though it was an English record, my manager insisted on making sure we would record in Spanish as well, and it worked out really well for me. ~ Jon Secada

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."

À qui la faute? (1872) ~ Victor Hugo

North American newspapers are entering into commercial printing in a way that is somewhat different from taking in traditional commercial jobs: they are subcontracting to print other newspapers that have chosen not to upgrade their print capabilities. This is creating a profit-centre environment at many newspapers, both those that contract out and those that contract in requiring added capacity and more colour at the newspaper taking the contract. ~ Eric Bell

What any writer hopes for is that the reader will stick with you to the end of the contract and that there is a level of submission on the reader's part. ~ Hanya Yanagihara

Because he had a good agent, he had a good contract. Because he had a good contract, he was in Singapore an hour after the explosion. Most of him, anyway. ~ William Gibson

My deal with Marvel is I have a consulting deal with them as well as a contract to make 'Avengers.' That means I'll read all the scripts, I'll look at cuts. ~ Joss Whedon

It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there. ~ Deion Sanders

Until I became a nurse, no one had ever asked me to sign a book contract. I had been writing for decades, read thousands of books, and even worked in publishing for 10 years. Who knew that nursing would be my break? ~ Steven Amsterdam

In the middle of my fourth year teaching is when I got my book contract - in 2010. I knew the book would come out in May 2011. ~ John Corey Whaley

I quit after my seven-year contract with Universal was up. I quit for 33 years. ~ Gloria Stuart

I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio. ~ Ursula Andress

And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. ~ Thomas Keneally

There's this funny thing with pilots that you have to sign the contract to do the whole job before you're even offered the part. And they make about a million pilots a year, but hardly any of them get turned into series. ~ Eve Best

I was under the impression I had signed a three-year contract. I want to be back. I expect to be back. I will be back. ~ Greg Maddux

Under my contract with Capitol, I have complete freedom to do just about anything I want in my own way. ~ Les Baxter

What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world. ~ John Charles Polanyi

We need to meet and flesh out the details of our ... you know ... whatever. I don't know what to call it. Our contract."
"I was thinking the same thing. But can we call it our epic summer romance? Contract sounds so stuffy." He smiles again. ~ Anne Eliot

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing
by dint of ignorance and innocence
that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. ~ Gregory Maguire

I was under contract with Hitchcock before I even met him. They wouldn't tell me anything about the film, or who was working on it. They had all sorts of excuses as to why they couldn't tell me anything. ~ Tippi Hedren

My contract with my teachers is fair, and is two pages. The union contract is 200 pages. You cannot manage your business when you cannot make any decision without going back to 200 pages worth of stuff. ~ Geoffrey Canada

that is subject to accelerated revenue recognition as a result of aggressive management estimates is one that has "multiple deliverables." In this type of arrangement, the seller provides several distinct, but intermingled deliverables over an extended period of time. For example, wireless telecom companies often package mobile phone service and a cell phone handset together in the same contract. Sometimes the handset is sold to the customer at a greatly discounted price (or even given away for free), as long as the customer also agrees to a two-year service contract. Accounting rules require the seller to allocate a portion of the total contract value to the handset (to be recognized as revenue up front) and a portion to the service contract (to be recognized over the life of the contract). The seller uses assumptions in estimating how to split the revenue between the two deliverables. By changing these assumptions or ~ Howard M. Schilit

Dishonorable people do not honor their arrangements. A bill of sale only requires payment, a contract only requires completion, and/or a debt merely requires a payment. ~ Akutra-Ramses Atenosis Cea

I figured, 'If I ever get offered a chance to sign a deal, I'll only do it if I got to do it how I want.' So my contract is structured in such a way that I'm really protected. ~ Regina Spektor

It's not going to determine whether I will remain with Nigeria or not. I don't have a contract and I'm not depending on this match to give me a contract. So please don't think I will die in the Nigeria job. ~ Stephen Keshi

When I first quit my day job, I was terrified. I called my editors and said I'm trying to make a go of this, and they threw every contract at me they could. And for two years, I had a book or an anthology out every month. ~ MaryJanice Davidson

Marriage is treated by all civilized societies as a peculiar and favored contract. It is in its origin a contract of natural law ... It is the parent, and not the child of society; the source of civility and a sort of seminary of the republic. ~ Joseph Story

Nowadays, in the contract that actors sign, you have to agree that you're going to do a certain amount of publicity-the hard part they don't pay you for. ~ Jeff Bridges

I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows. ~ Carol Burnett

The CONCEPT is though that you have to get an AGREEMENT BY CONTRACT and you KNOW that they are NOT going to respond. So the way that you are going to get your contract is THROUGH the public Notary through that process of showing an administrative procedure to the proper parties and their FAILURE to respond and then you are going to have to lodge the final result the evidence of that contract with the PROPER party With PETITION on the PRIVATE SIDE to get the acknowledgement. ~ Jack Smith

I got a couple of different contacts from publishing companies saying they'd be interested in a book about my work: not a kiss-and-tell book, which I specifically put in the contract. Just a book about my work and what I did. ~ Linda Ronstadt

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. ~ Lysander Spooner

Before I got the contract, I'd heard from a lot of people that a contract with a company like Estee Lauder was like a stamp of approval, a stamp of your legit-ness. So getting that was a really big step for me. ~ Kendall Jenner