I think as an artist that's the best thing you can have - a personal stamp on something.
Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.
You always have to keep up with the trends. The biggest thing is making your own trend and making your own stamp in the fashion industry. Whatever is going to be your style, make that your style and go from there.
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
In the heavens we discover [stars] by their light, and by their light alone. . . the sole evidence of the existence of these distant worlds. . . that each of them is built up of molecules of the same kinds we find on earth. A molecule of hydrogen, for example, whether in Sirius or in Arcturus, executes its vibrations in precisely the same time. Each molecule therefore throughout the universe bears impressed upon it the stamp of a metric system as distinctly as does the metre of the Archives at Paris, or the royal cubit of the Temple of Karnac.
I look around me and nowhere do I see a stamp of disapproval with which nature marked a woman's candid brow.
Each moment of your life is a brush stroke in the painting of your growing career. There are the bold, sweeping strokes of one increasing, dynamic purpose. There are the lights and shadows that make your life deep and strong. There are the little touches that add the stamp of character and worth. The art of achievement is the art of making life-your life-a masterpiece.
Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.
If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.
Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U. S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a perfect marriage of two great American institutions.
I'll have a stamp on me forever. There will always be questions. I brought new fans to the Orioles' organization, and that's good.
The god of love lives in a state of need. It is a need. It is an urge. It is a homeostatic imbalance. Like hunger and thirst, it's almost impossible to stamp out.
In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting.
Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather than up.
Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.
Cramming seeks to stamp things in by intense application immediately before the ordeal. But a thing thus learned can form but few associations.
The impulse for personal adornment is hard to stamp out.
All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
For Quality: Stamp out fires, automate, computerize, M. B. O. , install merit pay, rank people, best efforts, zero defects. WRONG!!!! Missing ingredient: profound knowledge.
I don't like to say bad things about paleontologists, but they're not very good scientists. They're more like stamp collectors.