Sentences with phrase «wimpy said»

«Credit, of course, is what makes the global economy go... Wimpy said it best, «I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today,»» Gross writes.
«Credit, of course, is what makes the global economy go... Wimpy said it best, «I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today,»» Gross wrote.

Not exact matches

While the Alien franchise is still able to generate decent interest, the same can not be said for Fox's other release this weekend, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul.
«I wrote «Diary of a Wimpy Kid» as a nostalgia piece, looking back like «The Wonder Years,»» said Kinney, referring to the 1980s TV series set in the 1960s.
«I know that everything Nina submits is something that she knows how to make, who the audience is and how she would ask us to market and sell it,» says Fox 2000 Pictures president Elizabeth Gabler, who worked with Jacobson on Diary of a Wimpy Kid and signed Color Force to a first - look deal this summer.
We are hooked on cheap credit just as Wimpy was hooked on Friday's burgers,» he said, referring to Wimpy from the Popeye cartoons.
It's time to say goodbye wimpy granola!
This might explain why so many of our players often get easily knocked off the ball and dare I say it a bit wimpy.
Paul Krugman and other wimpy critics say not enuff but hey, Ben is 2 biggety big 2 fire.
«A moderately wimpy, sustained wind with turbulent gusts will be enough to lift particles into the atmosphere,» says meteorologist Tom Warner of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.
«I see what was,» said Lloyd «Wimpy» Serigne, who grew up in the fishing and trapping village of Delacroix, 20 miles southeast of New Orleans.
It's not yet clear, the researchers say, but a male's ability to change color rapidly may be a sign of its ability to quickly ramp up adrenaline and other hormones needed to take on an opponent successfully — and that wimpier chameleons learn to recognize this.
This is because some models produce «wimpy» ENSO events, while others produce larger ones, he says.
«When the cocoon eventually breaks out of the material, you get gamma - ray emission that's wimpy,» she says.
In business, a wimpy handshake says something about your personality.
«Pink, wimpy dumbbells,» my coworker said on her turn, «usually accompanied by a smart, Lululemon - attired 20 - something terrified she...
«Kids who considered themselves very overweight not only were bullied, but... indicated more loneliness, saw themselves as troublemakers, and saw themselves as sad, fearful, and wimpy,» she says.
Rosalee De La Foret, author of the new book Alchemy of Herbs says, «Chamomile is one of my favorite herbs to talk about because it is so readily dismissed as a wimpy herb, but when you know how to use it correctly, it really packs a powerful punch.»
The dermatologist says: «Some of us have naturally tiny lashes; other people's get wimpy with age.
Film producer Bill (Victor Garber) left aging, vain starlet Elise (Hawn) for an untalented ingenue (Elizabeth Berkley — «nuff said); electronics salesman Morty (Dan Hedaya) left the brash, zaftig Brenda (Midler) for sassy, svelte Shelly (a perfectly catty Sarah Jessica Parker); and ad exec Aaron (Stephen Collins) ditched the whiny, wimpy Annie (Keaton) for her psychotherapist, Leslie (Marcia Gay Harden).
Tappan says they aren't telling people not to read books like Diary of a Wimpy Kid, but to be cognizant of how images are being marketed to boys and can send the message that boys aren't interested in school.
Overall, it filled the mandate articulated by Dye, who said buyer surveys made it clear there was a market for a high - mileage crossover that «wasn't a wimpy hybrid».
«It was important to Jeff and to Abrams (the publisher) that our Wimpy Kid e-books offer the same visual experience as the print books,» Michael Jacobs, president and CEO of Abrams, said in a statement.
«(Wimpy Kids publisher Amulet Books) were really excited about it when we presented the book in Guided View... and how well the material was presented to children,» said ComiXology CEO David Steinberger in an interview with VentureBeat.
«I'm very excited to be writing the sixth Diary of a Wimpy Kid book, which features the Heffley family being snowed in,» said Jeff Kinney.
Also, this short video of why kids love the Wimpy Kid is pretty darn cute (if I do say so myself).
«We're thrilled to have the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series available for our Kindle customers,» said Russ Grandinetti, Vice President, Kindle Content, in a press release.
«The popularity of Andy Griffiths» Treehouse series has been phenomenal — particularly when it is competing with international titles and the likes of Jeff Kinney and the Diary of a Wimpy Kid novels,» says Dymocks buying manager Sophie Higgins.
That is, investors who bill themselves as dyed in the wool value guys have far wimpier performance than the theory says they should.
They are like J. Wellington Wimpy, who said, «I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.»
That's not to say that all stuffed animals are wimpy and easy to tear to pieces.
«Ethanol is a win - win for consumers, farmers and for the country,» says Wimpy.
People are fighting to save it (architecture students are threatening to chain themselves to it) but the wimpy gutless excuse for a city planner Stephen Mikicich says «In the end, this is private property we're talking about, so we're really looking to encourage conservation by the tools that are available to us.»
And when you mention your skills, do not use the old wimpy method saying where I can use my skills to — trite messages like this one need to retire immediately.
On that other coast, the very drawbacks of L.A. that fill tedious gripe sessions and standup acts — the sprawl, the clogged freeways, the wimpy public transit — have perversely made its westside office space more valuable by discouraging building, Green Street analyst Jed Reagan said.
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