Sentences with phrase «old quip»
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.»
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«ESSA reminds me of an old quip about Communism — that it's the longest route between capitalism and capitalism.
Regardless of the implications of that old quip «close enough for government work,» the standards of science and work ethic compare well with those of academia and industry.
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.
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«With Quip we've sort of thrown out all the old metaphors,» he says.
Then, either simply confess you are embarrassed to not know their name and introduce yourself or, if you are witty, make a quip about how «your memory recall started to go downhill at 25 years old.»
«These are tiny, modern - day versions of the old bunny ears that people have used to watch over-the-air television since time immemorial,» quipped one writer recently.
Perhaps the best historical quip relevant to the taxation of cryptocurrency comes from Thomas Kuhn's 1962 work «The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,» in which he states, «scientific revolutions are here taken to be those non-cumulative developmental episodes in which an older paradigm is replaced in whole or in part by an incompatible new one.»
«I think the plastic salad box used to be old soda bottles,» Walch quipped.
To which his old coach quipped, «Your duck hook in college made it tighter.»
Having watched Man City younger Phil Foden turn in a star performance in the Manchester derby friendly last week, Neville quipped that the 17 - year - old was at the wrong Manchester club if he wanted the chance for regular first - team...
As Ronald Reagan once quipped, «Politics is the world's second - oldest profession».
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.
«Wow, so without term limits, we just have to wait until congress people get so old they lose signatures like keys,» he quipped.
«The second - oldest profession in the world is political fund raising,» one source quips, stretching the saying some.
He later quipped: «I'm 80 years old.
Mayor Rudy Giuliani once quipped about blowing up 110 Livingston St., the headquarters of the old Board of Education — which he not unfairly painted as a bureaucratic swamp.
She made London her base — «like one - third of all 22 - year - old Australians,» she quips — taking a contract job as a lab technician at Guy's Hospital.
They just recycled old ones,» quipped Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City and a publisher of the website RealClimate.org.
My only defense is the old Tom Lehrer quip (from the song «New Math»): «The important thing is to understand what you're doing rather than to get the right answer.»
«There are people in this room who would think bitcoin is a little old - fashioned,» he quipped.
Amanda Eichen, a 35 - year - old guidance counselor in Long Island, New York, was «not remotely interested» in holistic healing («I think everything is a scam,» she quips) until two years ago, when the effect of years of productive psychotherapy seemed to plateau.
Yet while those comic book references, along with plenty of well - written quips aimed at older audiences, will engage the parents in the theater, the film's introspective second act may fail to hold the attention of younger viewers.
Such glib, blithe quips are the motor oil of the teen comedy, but in her first outing as a solo writer and director, Gerwig is as sensitive to place and the fragility of young and old bodies as she is to her protagonist's often hurtful words.
Asked what drew him to the central character, Reynolds Woodcock, Day - Lewis quipped: «He's just an old man and I just seem to fit the bill.»
Presenters Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty got a best picture redo, («What happened last year is Waterhouse under the bridge,» Kimmel quipped) and 86 - year - old Rita Moreno got to wear her dress from the 1962 ceremony again.
Bridges is in top form as the sardonic old detective with a chip on his shoulder and a bag full of light - hearted racist quips to throw at his partner.
The older woman quips back, «Life is the messy bits.»
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.
Constant quips about her looks are scattered around the film, but 21 - year - old Holland is shirtless in multiple scenes, including only his underwear to balance things out apparently.
The eponymous character in Juno, a pregnant 16 - year - old played with impressive verbal dexterity and heart by Ellen Page, speaks in quips and geeky references, and surrounds herself with ironic accessories like a hamburger phone and a plastic pipe.
«I would really love it if we were in space,» the 31 - year - old actress quipped.
As irresistible as the fresh carrots that grow in Mr. McGregor's garden, Peter Rabbit gives Beatrix Potter's classic a modern makeover, complete with intricate animation, cute quips for older audiences and a sweet - natured journey that has you rooting for a happy ending for all involved.
I'm reminded of the old Sy Fliegel quip: «Define «taught» as used in the following sentence: «I taught her to swim but every time she gets into the water she sinks to the bottom of the pool.
As Arthur Schlesinger Sr. once quipped, «anti-Catholicism is at the same time our Nation's oldest and one of its most enduring prejudices.»
There's an old joke about a visitor to Lake Louise who quipped, «Sure, it's beautiful.
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Einstein quipped that he had become an, «old chap who is mainly known because he doesn't wear socks and who is exhibited as a curiosity on special occasions.»
I have to admit that the tumbrel quip — hinting at the upcoming summit and guillotining climate scientists in the streets of Paris — was quite subtle — but to miss the most obvious allusion to scientific paradigms — and then to think that behaving like a spoilt 10 year old is a winning tactic suggests something about the naked Emperor Moshpit.
This is an old refrain; legendary congressman Joe Cannon, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives who frequently opposed President Teddy Roosevelt's progressive conservation policies, once quipped, «Not one cent for scenery.»