Sentences with phrase «quipped in»

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.

Maybe if your company is buying 25,000 servers off him globally next year, he'll free some time up in his diary, but... Doc Searls brilliantly quipped in the Cluetrain, «Markets are Conversations».

A curator quipped in, «I studied fine art in college, but I realized I wasn't a good enough painter to make it.

Cementing his status as an interloper, Mr. K quipped in his post-match interview that he represents St Louis, not Chicago.

As Tim Rogers once quipped in his review of Dragon Quarter for the now - defunct Action Button:

No wonder William Bernstein quipped in his 2001 book, The Intelligent Asset Allocator: «If you are a twenty - something just beginning to save, then get down on your knees and pray for a market crash.»

As Former Finance Minister Michael Wilson controversially quipped in a speech to the Canadian Economics Association in 1985, after introducing the capital gains exemption and a number of other significant tax rate reforms, «Canada has an acute shortage of rich people.»

«I don't know anything about show business,» Simmons quipped in an interview with Entertainment Tonight.

When the head of the Atomic Energy Commission at the time, Lewis Strauss, infamously quipped in 1954 that electricity would become «too cheap to meter,» he was likely referring to nuclear fusion, not nuclear fission, the atom - splitting reaction that powers conventional nuclear power plants today.

«I don't remember a time Adam Clayton Powell wasn't running,» the longtime Harlem Rep. quipped in an interview Tuesday night after President Obama's State of the Union address.

«When I sign things, I guess it's one less word I have to write,» Sapienza, who started as an engineer 34 years ago with the agency that runs the city's water and sewer systems, quipped in an interview with the Daily News.

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.

«Let me reach for a cigarette first of all in defiant response to that,» he quipped in a recent Guardian interview when asked what he thought of his nickname of «inaction man» in contrast to the swashbuckling Paddy Ashdown.

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.

«Mr. President, I hope this doesn't fracture U.S. - Canada relations for decades,» Mulroney quipped in the video shortly before he started singing.

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

When discussing the question of equality, he quips in his essay «The Spiritual Roots of Capitalism and Socialism»: «Here, I will simply plead my Jewishness and say, equality has never been a Jewish thing.

Father Martin Hilbert of the Toronto Oratory made this quip in a June 2006 article for Touchstone magazine:

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.

In spite of Whitehead's well - known quip in Process and Reality that «The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato,» my Whiteheadian reading of the history of thought begins with Aristotle.

«Martin Luther was the first Protestant, and yet he was more Catholic than many of his Roman Catholic opponents,» Pelikan quips in the first sentence of the book.

There's a common quip in New Orleans that visitors should drink the local take on the Bloody Mary — festooned with pickled okra, green beans, and more — because it may be the only vegetables they'll get while in town.

With Texas quips in his DNA, I can count on him to say, «Wow does she ever look road hard and put up wet.»

Savouring the quip in his diaries, Clark describes it as «snobby, but cutting».

You expect your date to agree on how good this looks, but instead he quips in with: «do you realise how many calories that is?

Sometimes, if you try to be cute, and put short little sarcastic quips in your profile, you find that people complain that there is no information to go off of, so you update your profile to achieve authentic, honest, sincere, informative essays which read like war and peace, and then all the go - go, fun - seeking, no need for anything but chemistry types come out of the woodwork, and ignore everything but your photo anyway!

And the ridiculously cute Roxanne, once again abducted by Megamind in his (up to now) fruitless effort to lure Metro Man to his doom, quips in mock weariness about her «frequent kidnapping card.»

, would be a good quip in Latin class but it sounds forced in this context.

It's also chock - full of first - rate»80s action and irresistible zingers («He had to split,» Arnie quips in reference to a recently chainsawed adversaries).

(Still LOLing over that line — among many funny quips in Temperley's well - written book.)

You won't always find yourself on a set that encourages improvisation and off - script riffs, but there've been plenty of unforgettable quips in Hollywood history that were completely off - the - cuff and now in the books for good.

Had he not already done Total Recall, Schwarzenegger might have been perfect for the role, and perhaps he would not have disappointed as many because he didn't deliver side - splitting quips in every scene.

«We lost 19 of our best guys that day,» a deadpan Kumail Nanjiani quips in The Big Sick, resulting in the year's most audacious joke (it's about 9/11) which sealed the Silicon Valley star's status as the most exciting comedy actor on the scene.

And not to be outdone by the impending orchestra play - off music — frankly, how dare that conductor — McDormand got one final quip in about the Hollywood Foreign Press's appointment of Meher Tatna as their new leader: «They managed to elect a female president.

Jolie is as incredible as ever, whether it is quipping in her cool English accent or showing off a new talent effortlessly.

Wade Wilson's wicked quips in Deadpool 2 took aim at not only Fox's X-Men Universe, but the MCU and DCEU as well.

We get a few quips in game, but Blizzard honestly feels like they've given up on integrating story with game mechanics.

He makes sarcastic quips in situations of great danger, but like @aleksandersamuel: disqus says that seems more like a defense mechanism.

As Dr. Gottman quips in The Relationship Cure, it would be a relief if we could create a world in which «people made all their bids for connection in the form of standard written invitations... all expectations and feelings would be spelled out in vivid detail,» and there wouldn't be any more «tension or guesswork.»

Not exact matches

When one shareholder later noted that Dimon would earn $ 100 in the time it took to hear the shareholder out, Dimon quipped, «I hope it's worth it!»

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

«McDonalds changes their slogan to «Lovin» > Hatin» in an attempt to be hip, yet still forces its employees to wear visors,» quipped Canadian radio host Tyler Middleton.»

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.

In 2012, Gibbs and Taylor quit their jobs to pursue Quip full - time.

«So I walk into their house, [Warren] was sitting in this chair and he made some sarcastic quip,» she recalled.

For instance, Salesforce bought the startup Quip, which makes a Microsoft Word - like product, in 2016 for $ 582 million.

Jordan quipped back: «There's [an] «I» in win.»

When patriarch George Jetson declined sugar in his coffee because he was trying to stay trim, Rosey quipped, «But Mr. J, you're always in shape... pear - shape!»

When he does engage in conversation, Frind can be disarmingly frank, delivering vitriolic quips with a self - assured cheerfulness that feels almost mean.

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.