Sentences with phrase «famous quip»
Re # 1: If a geo - technical fix has widespread unanticipated negative consequences (ala John Miller's famous quip about fertilizing the subtropical Pacific with iron, «Give me a freighter full of iron filings and I'll give you another ice age» — or words to that effect — we'll have a real Tragedy of the Commons.
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Of course — though I write it regretfully — by concentrating on Jefferson, we're essentially engaging in a form of cherry - picking; he was a serious «outlier,» as President Kennedy's famous quip during the 1962 Nobelists» White House dinner dramatizes.
Never before has the famous quip — «Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket» — seemed more true than it does today of the behavior of NRDC, EDF, and the Sierra Club.
Answering Martin's now - famous quip from that album, «You just can't play a depressing song on the banjo,» Lee mastered Neil Young's maudlin «My My, Hey Hey» on banjo and then installed a recording of it in the Wattis Institute elevator.
Tweaking a famous quip by US comedian Paul Mooney, the sentiment underpinning Notes on Gesture is: «Everyone wan na be a black woman but no - one wan na be a black woman.»
June 2, 1897 — Upon seeing his obituary prematurely published in the New York Herald (almost 13 years before he died) Mark Twain penned his famous quip, «Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.»
Contrary to Ronald Reagan's famous quip — the most terrifying words in the English language are «I'm from the government and I'm here to help» — non-Jewish Lakewood families need that help, and they need it right now.
From his famous quip «George Bush doesn't care about black people» to «I «ma let you finish» to marrying Kim Kardashian
«I can not believe that God plays dice with the cosmos» was Einstein's famous quip about his discomfort with quantum mechanics.
Ryanair chief Michael O'Leary - rarely one to take criticism lying down - responded, saying Mr Pearson «hasn't a clue what he's talking about» and, recalling Denis Healy's famous quip, added: «Being attacked by Minister Pearson....
Yeah, a bumbling Jonathan had to go; for his scandalous humbug was fast demystifying the elite, and the hoi polloi were rumbling — just as a reckless military provoked the Fela famous quip: uniform na khaki, na tailor dey sew am!
Conclusion Galileo's famous quip that «the Bible was written to show us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go» is, of course, true.
Consider the statue a visual corollary to Adlai Stevenson's famous quip, «I find Apostle Paul appealing, and Apostle Peale appalling.»
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While still nowhere near as popular as Oreo's famous «dunk in the dark» tweet, Charmin's Uranus quip is a textbook example of how brands can riff on popular culture and delight consumers.
«Blessed with an air of power that masks an unmistakable cute, cuddly side,» the site quipped, «Kim made this newspaper's editorial board swoon with his impeccable fashion sense, chic short hairstyle, and, of course, that famous smile.»
Most of us have heard the old quip, made famous in Annie Hall, about a meal in which the food is terrible — and the portions are too small.
His record is my best ad,» the 61 - year - old Hawkins quipped in an interview after an October 25 Manhattan fundraiser featuring Ralph Nader, the most famous Green Party member.
When asked about his famous quote that he would only leave his office in a box, or through the ballot box, he quipped: «I'm leaving because of the ballot box, because it will be hard to reelect me when I'm not running!»
(«How do you shave in there,» she quips of his famous dimpled chin, while he answers each query about the roster of women in his life with the standard response «yes, but we're divorced»).
These pitiable verbal assaults made him more than just a portlier, crasser Henny Youngman, though; the famous Youngman quip «Take my wife, please,» became, in Dangerfield's hands, «During sex my girlfriend always wants to talk to me.
What could have been an unmemorable youth comedy became an endlessly quotable classic, from Murray's famous «Cinderella story» tee - off (created entirely in the moment) to Dangerfield's bull - in - a-china-shop quips («Hey, baby, you must've been something before electricity»).
And that's what these writing tips and quips from famous authors are all about!»
As famous for his quips as for his art — he variously mused that «art is what you can get away with» and «everyone will be famous for 15 minutes» — Warhol drew widely from popular culture and everyday subject matter, creating works like his 32 Campbell's Soup Cans (1962), Brillo pad box sculptures, and portraits of Marilyn Monroe, using the medium of silk - screen printmaking to achieve his characteristic hard edges and flat areas of color.
There's a famous old quip: «A lot of people in business say they have twenty years experience, when in fact all the really have is one year's experience, repeated twenty times.»
Two blocks north «Massage,» a small group show at Andrew Roth, presents cerebral works inspired partly by Marshall McLuhan's quipping play on his famous pronouncement «The medium is the massage.»
His infamous quips - «art is what you can get away with» and «everyone will be famous for 15 minutes» - outlive the artist today.
As Matthew quipped in a recent post, stories about the Gulf of Mexico's (in) famous dead zone have a way of turning up on TreeHugger, as if on cue, every summer.
One of the most famous analytical quips: There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.