Sentences with phrase «quip at»

Bateman, who starred in Daley and Goldstein's «Horrible Bosses» script, invests even the most flailing antics with his reliable straight - man equilibrium; not even a gunshot wound to the arm will keep him from having a self - deprecating quip at the ready.

Ivor Bulmer - Thomas, «Too big for his boots» Mocking Harold Wilson's claim that half his classmates were too poor for shoes, Bulmer - Thomas» quip at the 1949 Conservative conference implied Wilson was somewhat egotistical: «If ever he went to school without any boots it was because he was too big for them».

Your incredibly funny quip at the strategy meeting?

As Trump quipped at a fundraiser on the 20th of October, «Michelle Obama gives a speech, and everyone loves it.

Hire a lawyer,» he quipped at the America - Israel real estate conference Nadlan in the City.

«If it's free beer, I'm here,» Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum quipped at a welcome - home picnic for retiring congressman Maurice Hinchey at Cantine Field in Saugerties on Sunday.

«Spiders in foggy areas exceed FDA limits [for people],» Kenneth Coale, director of Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California, quipped at a press conference Wednesday at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting.

«That was weird,» the notoriously private actor quipped at the dinner.

«The film doesn't really have a plot,» Joel Coen quipped at the press conference.

Or as Allen himself quipped at a festival intro of Tall Dark Stranger, «I know how it ends: low grosses.»

One of the most blithe responses to ebook piracy has been that of Hugh Howey, who once jokingly quipped at an Amazon roundtable event at BookExpo America that he «loves» piracy.

Win quips at one point.

«Congratulations, Dorothy,» her boss, Alfred H. Barr, quipped at the opening of one.

Not exact matches

March 8, 2017: During a cybersecurity conference at Boston College, Comey says he plans to serve his entire 10 - year term, quipping, «You're stuck with me for another 6 1/2 years.»

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.

(««Hey, we should try something like this too,» said no one ever at Air Canada,» quipped one online commenter.)

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.»

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.

A year later Taylor debuted Quip, the resulting productivity software suite and company built with co-founder Kevin Gibbs, a friend from his days at Google.

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.»

To paraphrase Charles Baudelaire's quip that the devil wins at the point where the public comes to believe that he doesn't exist, the financial sector's lobbying effort wins at the point where people believe that running into debt contributes to economic growth rather than burdens it, and that they will end up richer by acting as bank customers.

If there is anyone in this room that believes that a reasonable forecast for the U.S. or British economy at any future date would be represented by a trend line constructed through to 2007 from any previous point, I have a bridge I want to sell you,» Summers quipped.

Their propensity to lose money led Warren Buffett to quip, «If a capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk back in the early 1900s, he should have shot Orville Wright.»

As Jim Grant quipped, though, the Fed is prepared to «re-abnormalize» at the first sign of trouble.

So he sings, and he quips, but Berkshire shareholders — not least those in attendance at Berkshire's annual meetings — have been privy to some fine advice over the years.

At any given moment, he could also shine in debate or extemporaneous speech with a great quip or a beautiful one - liner.

Buckley was never a professional Catholic, in the sense of someone who made his living from the fact of his faith, and his standing as a Catholic commentator may have declined when, in 1961, National Review responded to John XXIII's encyclical on Christianity and social progress, Mater et Magistra, with an unsigned quip: «Mater si, Magistra no» (though most reports now ascribe it to a hotshot young writer at the magazine named Garry Wills.)

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Asked at a pastoral conference whether a child not baptized in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit could be saved, he quipped that «the baby would be saved but the pastor would surely go to hell.»

At a debate in Britain, David Lange was asked about the peace that we live in cast by the shadow of nuclear weapons, to which he quipped I can almost smell the uranium now!

Nothing is new, not even the cultural shifts that, as Auden quipped, «hunt us out of life to play / at living in some other way.»

Reinhold Niebuhr once quipped: «It is almost impossible to be sane and a Christian at the same time.»

But if Spengler's quip has at least a kernal of truth to it, it suggests that reconsidering this relationship will be vital to any post-liberal political theory, especially ones interested in resisting late - liberal urges to globalize ever - larger swaths of society as a way of covering up for centralization's previous disappointments.

When the Dallas Cowboys are at the top of their game, winning routinely and decisively, one of the favorite quips which circulates in north Texas concerns Arlington Stadium, where the Cowboys play their home games.

While the apostle Paul doesn't strike me as the kind of person who'd crack a joke or offer a sarcastic quip in a tight situation, he does share this ability to look positively at a crisis situation.

(Someone has quipped that if AIDS is divine punishment, then surely the people who bring us economic oppression, environmental pollution and devastating wars should at least get herpes.)

A candid look at America's drinking patterns reveals a measure of truth in the quip, «If alcoholism is a sickness, a lot of people are trying to catch it.»

«I've gone to the Golf Writers» dinner in Augusta,» he quipped, referring to the annual sit - down chat - and - chew that occurs on the eve of the Masters and at which the scribblers» choices for PGA and LPGA players of the year make brief appearances.

Sergio Garcia was in no joking mood Wednesday morning when he apologized publicly for the decidedly unfunny «fried chicken» quip he made Tuesday night at Tiger Woods» expense.

There were days, now and then, that he passed huddled in his bathrobe in front of the television, flinching from the pain, curling up in sorrow and wondering how in God's name he would summon the strength again to make the quip that would put everyone around him at ease, to tell the world in that hoarse, hyped voice, You got ta get it into the middle, it's the only way to heat a trap defense!

Sitting at the Red Rock restaurant in Norman, Okla., during a meal with Mayfield earlier this month, Browns general manager John Dorsey looked upon the landscape outside and quipped, «Here's what we're gonna do: Open up restaurants right here, all lined up, and they're all gonna be food trucks.»

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...

Watzke quipped in an interview with WAZ that Sammer's absence was noticeable at Bayern and said that he was looking forward to the ruthless analysis he could bring back to Dortmund.

Michele Hays, blogger at Quips, Travails and Braised Oxtails found an informative link about the story which she kindly shared on The Lunch Tray's Facebook page.

My phone eventually rang — «sorry to interrupt at château de la solitude,» my friend quipped.

Perhaps Putin will quip, again, that he doesn't care - a form of raising his middle finger at the West.

«I want to thank some of the other folks that were in the race — not all of them,» quipped Wright, in a clear jab at opponent Clyde Williams.

Speaking to supporters at his Dongan Hills campaign headquarters, Allegretti quipped, «I'm sorry I was late.

Later, Cuomo poked fun at the idea of Nixon running by quipping he hoped celebrities like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie didn't get in the race, if name recognition was as important as reporters suggested.