Sentences with phrase «quip by»

Truly, an arrogant attitude on his part — if I had been quicker, I would have borrowed from the quip by former VP candidate Lloyd Bentsen and said, «Mr. Crichton, I have known many leading climate scientists, and you are not one of them.»

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.»

Regarding a creative marketing technique that is not one of mine, I like this quip by an author whose nickname is «The Name Tag Guy»:

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.»

This quip by Eisenhower is absolutely true.

Hundreds of times during my playthrough of the game, I was cackling at hilarious quips by the Voice or one of the Nightwings.

Headlines include «5 Steps to Dividing Family Property,» «10 Things To Consider When Divorced Parents Start Dating Again» and «15 Best Quips by Justice Quinn in Bruni v. Bruni.»

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

«Quip is by far the best,» he says.

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.

In particular, Facebook is focused on making collaboration smoother by integrating Salesforce's Quip word processing and spreadsheet tools.

When asked about the other «tools» Facebook uses internally, Goler points to Quip — the document creation and collaboration service created by Facebook's former chief scientist Bret Taylor and recently acquired by Salesforce.com.

Funny quips from Wendy's are only the latest headline - grabbing attempts by companies to humanize themselves and gain affection and, perhaps, dollars.

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.

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.»

The quantum physicist Max Planck famously quipped: «A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.»

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!

His unrelenting insistence reminded me — in the most stark terms — of James Baldwin's prophetic quip: «Racial progress in America is measured by how fast I become white.»

That's a quip regularly offered by cardinals and archbishops when welcoming a guest to dinner.

Deftly citing Luke 4, in which Jesus» townsfolk in Nazareth are said to want to kill him for suggesting that Gentiles are to be graced by God as much as Jews, Keller quipped that he couldn't be that good a preacher since nobody had yet tried to kill him.

However, this does not mean that Luther taught a «Doctrine of Justification by Print Alone,» to quote A. G. Dickens» sardonic quip.

In his report to the bishops on the status of the document, he quipped that «if we haven't got it done by 1999, we'll quit.»

Show me a pudding that isn't improved by clotted cream and I'll eat it, quipped CT — a man after my own heart.

Those very basic things above were shattered by a few single line quips and comments.

Every piece of advice, whether a formal research study or a book by a popular parenting author or a comment made by your child's nurse or a quip from your mother - in - law, has a story.

It's no accident that for decades Trump has reportedly clipped newspaper articles by hand, written short quips on them in a black felt marker, and distributed these annotated musings by mail to friends and adversaries alike.

Pressed by Marcia Kramer on Paladino's chastisement of Cuomo for bringing his daughters along with him to march in the Gay Pride Parade back in June, Cuomo quipped: «He's probably the last person I'll take advice from on how to raise my daughters.»

Indeed, ace playwright, the late Ola Rotimi, was so fascinated by this tortoise quip that he used it to anchor the tragedy of Kurunmi, the ill - fated Aare Ona Kakanfo and Ijaye warlord, in his tragic play, Kurunmi.

Dean Skelos can make quips like «we are negotiating» and «we have differences» to fool the public, but then not get to an agreement and the new lines will have been drawn by the courts.

Asked by Fallon if he believed the GOP was happy with their nominee, Obama quipped of his fellow Democrats, «We are.»

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.

Shelter Island Town Supervisor James Dougherty apologized on Monday, May 15, 2017 for a joke he told last month before his State of the Town address, a quip about a woman being «ravished» by a gorilla.

(Learning of Mr. Croci's decision to retire, Mike Murphy, a spokesman for the Senate Democratic Conference, had quipped, «At this rate, there will be no one left in the Republican conference by the end of session,» slated to conclude in June.)

Keith Vaz, the chair of the home affairs select committee, quipped that he never thought he would see the day when Harman was attacked «from the left» by Field.

ALBANY — The first term of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo was marked by a now - infamous quip made by the governor's original top aide during his first year on the job: «We operate on two speeds here: Get along, and kill.»

Having spent the first part of the campaign seeing the pro-Remain message they badly need voters to hear — that Brexit represents a risk the NHS can't afford to take, that a Leave vote would trigger further austerity — drowned out by Conservative in - fighting, Britain Stronger In Europe might decide, as David Lloyd George once quipped, that «a change of nuisance is as good as holiday».

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....

«His performance as a progressive hasn't been very convincing of late — you might say he is an unqualified thespian,» Nixon quipped, playing off the comments made by Cuomo supporter Christine Quinn that Nixon was an «unqualified lesbian.»

The list was headed by the names of only two county executives and one state senator, leading one Trump backer to quip, «I would have been embarrassed to release a list like that.»

A senior Labour MP was recently acclaimed by colleagues when he quipped sourly: «We need a one - clause bill to repeal all Jack's acts.»

The off - color quip came in response to concerns by public - school dad Eric Greenleaf, who said at a meeting of parents and officials at state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown office that there will be «huge shortages» of classroom space in lower Manhattan in coming years.

When Jacobs addressed the Long Beach Democratic Club on Sunday, at a dinner headlined by national party chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman - Schultz, he alluded to the recent war with a sly quip.

«They're going to have to do 137 of these this year if they're going to hit every ethnic group in Flushing,» quipped another person upset by the perceived snub.

In a letter to Parker, Ball says the «recent political quips made by some, including you, are beneath all of us.»

«I try to abide by the Laws of Ten for productive science,» quips neuroscientist Tom Caltagirone, CEO of Aptagen, a biotechnology firm located in Jacobus, Pennsylvania.

One team, led by scientists in the United Kingdom and Brazil, drove more than 1,200 miles across Brazil — «a Top Gear — style road trip,» one scientist quipped — with a portable device that could produce a complete catalog of the virus's genes in less than a day.

His quip that «politics is applied biology» was used by the Nazis, as were his ideas about the positioning of races on the Darwinian template that he is crediting with inventing: the evolutionary tree.