Contractual Terms Quotes

The law has outgrown its primitive stage of formalism when the precise word was the sovereign talisman, and every slip was fatal. It takes a broader view to-day. A promise may be lacking, and yet the whole writing may be "instinct with an obligation," imperfectly expressed. If that is so, there is a contract.

When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.

Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

BP cannot undo a settlement it negotiated and signed just to avoid its consequences.

No one signs a contact saying they will always start.

Someone who signs a contract must respect it.

It is impossible to unsign a contract, so do all your thinking before you sign.

They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a house and coming back three years later and saying, 'Paint it this color!'

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

I've got a contract that keeps me around a few more years.

Just because I have signed a contract doesn't mean that he or she has bought me from head to toe.

I'd only do a deal with a label if it allowed me to still be indie and have that indie mentality. I have to have creative control.

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

The license said you had to stick around until I was dead, but if you're tired of looking at my face I guess I already am.

At the end of the day, everyone is repsonsible for their own contracts. Nobody forced us to sign them.

The Disney deal created some wrinkles. I'm under contract. But I'm on standby.

At some point, I'll do more McDonald's commercials if I have to.

Make no mistake about it: once a band has signed a letter of intent, they will either eventually sign a contract that suits the label or they will be destroyed.

I was a feature one time and they gave me host money. When I called to complain the guy goes "no you didn't feature, you co-hosted". He literally invented a term so he didn't have to pay me. And obviously that check bounced!

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