Sentences with phrase «of quips»

A collection of quips, speeches, and advice from Charlie Munger (lesser known partner of Warren Buffet).

A few weeks ago Allison made a couple of quips that could be construed as critical of Advanced Framing methods, also often referred to optimistically as Optimum Value Engineering (OVE).

While most of Dinklage's lines are delivered relatively enthusiastically, a few of his quips, mainly when he makes an error and unleashes hordes of enemies at you, are amusing.

While somewhat new to the blogging community, writing a fantastic site full of quips and travel stories at Wandering Carol, the Toronto Star is only the tip of the fountain pen, the meat of her work is in the ink.

Of course, counter work often is just a matter of banter, and it can help to have a little reservoir of quips to lighten up otherwise mundane sales.

They were constantly observing and commenting, and their endless stream of quips and coverage — even cartoons — put the presidential campaign on a whole new plane for me.

One could argue the tonal disconnect between an act of terrorism and comedy, and yet the injection of some quips and the odd running joke about a producer obsessed with balls turns out to be one of the film's greatest weapons, moreso than the overly familiar stench of disdain and dissidence as a poorly planned hostage stunt yields a much more complex discussion about class structure and the corruption of the American financial system.

He has always had a casual charm to his roles, making a name for himself working for directors like Terry Gilliam and David Fincher, and his mix of quips and awkward gangly post-pubescence is a much closer approximation to the Parker of the comics than Tobey Maguire's version.

It's pure entertainment with an endless parade of the kind of whiz - bang special effects, not quite sloppy sentiment, and a constant barrage of the quips and banter that define grace under pressure in the Marvel Universe.

He elevates the character above what has been written for him — a series of quips and witty ticks built upon an old school hitman trope.

While a few of the quips and sight gags might elicit a mild chuckle now and then, for most of the running length, the juvenile - minded writing and out - and - out silliness never really approach the sharpness or juicy satirical qualities that would suggest an inspired, realized concept.

As a result, Infinity War, although it still very much adheres to the Marvel tone in terms of its quips and humour, feels darker than you might expect.

If you never tire of quips, spandex and CGI, here comes «Ant - Man and the Wasp» (July 6, Disney), with Paul Rudd and Evangeline Lilly in the superhero title roles.

Summary Capsule: Shot back through time, The Chin battles female wiles, the evil dead, and three naughty books, with nothing more than a shotgun full of quips.

Its unthwartable tempo of quips, gags, cameos (Sly Stallone!)

The duke, a subtle man, asked some British comedians, the Goons, who specialize in a surrealistic form of fun (it consists of quips, unearthly chuckles, gurgles and squeaks and is popular with a huge British audience) to defend his royal honor, the proceeds of the match to go to his favorite charity, the National Playing Fields Association.

I agree... and practically never use that font — however, I've seen too many serious discussions come out of quips lately.

There are plenty of quips in the letter, including a joke likening a CEO's penchant for dealmaking to the drive of teenagers.

And #AskJPM and #McDStories, too, have become case studies in what not to do on Twitter because their use unleashed a barrage of quips and attacks.

An earlier version of this story misstated the price of Quip's plastic electric toothbrush.

Bret Taylor, co-founder and chief executive officer of Quip and former chief technology officer of Facebook Inc..

The irony of the quip was not lost on those attending an event in Kuala Lumpur last week to commemorate Malaysia's second prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein, who died 40 years ago.

I am reminded here of the quip of Reinhold Niebuhr.

That reminds me of a quip by comedian Stephen Wright.:» I bought a de-humidifier and a humidifier; and will put them in the same room and have them battle it out.»

And, as a former colleague of mine quipped this morning, «a lot of NYU students.»

Ah well, I meant that as more of a quip about the PC master race, but didn't know if it would be PC to say * nazi salute *

The idea of an artist being impolitic reminds me of the quip that institutional critique is like complaining when someone throws you a party.

Lynn, your post reminds me of the quip that stated that economists had managed to predict 10 of the last 4 recessions.

People are fond of quipping that nothing good comes out of Washington, but many of the American cities launching bike - sharing programs got turned on to the idea of bikes - as - transit by watching the nation's capital.

Not exact matches

Quip — Used by Mark Zuckerberg, this is one of the best apps for creating, importing and sharing documents.

Last year I spoke to Bret Taylor, the former chief technology officer at Facebook (FB) and current co-founder and CEO of the productivity software Quip.

«We have occasional fantasies of calling up [Microsoft] and torpedoing the deal,» quips Marc Andreessen, founder of Andreessen - Horowitz.

The Tesla and SpaceX CEO has quipped that an AI spam filter program could theoretically determine that the best way to get rid of spam is to get rid of the humans that create it.

In her memory, here is a collection of her cleverest, most inspiring quips.

Hearts might not work for Quip but only time will tell if they're enough to make those of Twitter users grow fonder.

It would also avoid the easy quip that Project Titan has become Project Titanic, because a major infotainment advance would be welcomed by consumers who are frustrated with the complexity of their in - vehicle systems.

but the co-founders see Quip's word processor as the first of many products that will ultimately comprise the full «productivity suite» — spreadsheets, presentation software, etc..

Bret Taylor and Kevin Gibbs believe their 13 - person start - up, Quip, can become the Microsoft of this millennium by following one simple maxim: design for mobile first.

When we get to that point, I think we want to apply the same methodology that we've used with Quip the word processor to the rest of the productivity suite and the rest of the things you do at work.

Bettman told reporters that two major American sports leagues «have never entered into a deal of this nature,» and quipped that it was «certainly something Rob and I could not have formalized over drinks at a Cornell reunion.»

There's a time and a place for everything, and the open, personable atmosphere of social media might make it seem like anything can be appropriate if posted with the right hashtag or paired with the right quip.

As always, it was full of memorable quips and the Oracle's take on where the US economy currently stands.

Steven Sinofsky, a former Microsoft executive who oversaw many iterations of Office and was president of the company's Windows division before leaving at the end of 2012, also uses Quip.

«With Quip we've sort of thrown out all the old metaphors,» he says.

And Facebook, of course: Piloted first within Instagram as the photo - sharing service experimented with rolling out native ads, Quip has since spread throughout the rest of the company.

He mentions that he uses it to compose blog posts, but when asked if he believed Quip had a chance of toppling the incumbents, Sinofsky demurs and hurries off the phone.

Instead of just sharing pictures of more than 120,000 art works that call the museum home, LACMA annotates the works with funny quips inspired by Internet memes.

After all, he quips, we are and remain a small open economy, hardly a harbour from an end - of - the - world type financial event.

George Doriot, the father of venture capitalism, liked to quip «Someone, somewhere, is making a product that will make your product obsolete.»

In the early Reagan years, «you could practically write a contract on the back of a matchbook,» quips Jerry Lopez, CEO of Technautics (# 212), in Arlington, Va..