Sentences with phrase «quips like»

It does so by publishing articles with harmless quips like «realturd» (I can think of far more offensive terms) with retorts from somewhat tight - wound and protective professionals depicted by an angry pointing man in black and white.

While my writing them here won't do them justice, quips like «Slice me a off a piece of pie and serve it up hot, I'm next in line» dubbed over a segment of lions mating and «When a shark appears, sea lions jump ashore — luckily there aren't any tigers waiting for them, otherwise they wouldn't know what the fuck to do» voiced while watching a pack of sea lions, should give you an idea as to how idiotic these guys are.

Never ones to turn down a good montage, the Academy's livestream opened with a stirring tribute to itself before cutting to hosts Andy Serkis and Tiffany Haddish, who failed to score an (admittedly long - shot) Best Supporting Actress nomination for her role in Girls Trip but cracked everyone up with her struggle to pronounce nominees» names (hi, Daniel Kaluuya) and quips like, «I should see this Dunkirk movie.

Scoffs, should be replaced by quips like, «thou shalt not lie to Satan,» or» I jive thee not.»

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.

In the past, Cook would answer similar questions with quips like «I love the Mac.»

If only it was still the days of the C64 and Atari ST I would make some quip like «They can waggle my joystick anytime!!!»

Not exact matches

But it could be that 2016 is the year that so - called unicorns lose their horns, or become «uni-corpses,» as some financial experts like to quip.

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

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.

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

(«That... doesn't even sound like science,» quipped comedian John Oliver.

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

It seems like there are more quips, pieces of advice, and warnings about social media out there than there are about romantic relationships or losing weight.

«Statistics are like a lamp post to a drunk — useful for support, but not for illumination,» Burke quipped this year to a bemused audience (he declined interview requests).

Like Thoreau quipped, don't become a tool of your tool.

Paulo, one of our machine learning engineers, has quipped, «the office sometimes feels like a Model UN conference!»

Alasdair MacIntyre once quipped that «facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth - century invention.»

Steinem's memorable quip, «A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,» is transformed in Feinberg to the clunkier, «A woman needs a man like an armadillo needs roller skates.»

Hearing Wolterstorff's quip, one would never guess that great figures from the Christian past like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, who affirmed openness to procreation as one of the essential goods of marriage, were well aware of the crude technologies of contraception of their day and the lamentable fact of infertile marriages.

Someone has quipped that an evangelical can be defined as anyone who really likes Billy Graham.

From then on the two exchanged quips and gifts like Mr. and Mrs. Hart — flowers, candy, a dictionary, clacking plastic teeth and, on gold medal night, champagne and a stuffed puppy.

When approached with an offer from a Durham banker to cash his checks, the coach quipped, «The way the boys have been borrowing money from me on this trip East, it looks like I'll be seeing a lot of you.»

When Barone was under fire for his mob ties, Liston quipped, «I got to get me a manager that's not hot — like Estes Kefauver.»

Idiotic quips, insults he's all over anyone who's ideas and opinions he doesn't like.

I particularly liked your analysis in seeing the DM position for its two-fold function, that made me feel like you understood the role beyond the superficial quip of «he can tackle».

Maybe Smith's quips weren't as memorable as a guy like Lawrence Taylor, but the dude had jokes, man.

As Julia Roberts famously quipped, «I never met a cookie I didn't like», I feel just about the same.

This stroller is quipped with a lot of safety features like 5 point harness, run - away strap, and parking brake.

With contradictory takes, she must decide whether to listen to the mischievous Earl of Leicester (John Light), the voice of the Ken Clarke - like Lord Talbot (Alan Williams), who quips to ripples of approval from the Islington audience that «a majority does not prove something is right», or the ruthless pragmatism of Lord Burleigh.

I particularly liked her spark when she quipped, with a cheeky smile, «Good question Jeremy» after a right royal pounding on national TV.

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.

Hinting at bad blood, Mr Osborne quipped: «There won't be much time for chit chat, a bit like when Theresa and I last spoke.»

«It looks like I fit the qualification so I'm thinking of applying,» Trotta quipped.

As the app was launched, one political journalist quipped excitedly: «It's like having an actual Matt Hancock in the palm of your hand!»

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.»

Blair with his third way, Brown with his dodgy growth theory and Mandy with his Mao like quip to bankers to get rich and pay your taxes was a green light to the City to let their Ponzi Scam rip.

«Wow, so without term limits, we just have to wait until congress people get so old they lose signatures like keys,» he quipped.

Making public corruption cases is always tough for prosecutors — there generally isn't tangible evidence like drugs waiting to be seized, quips Nyhan, the Dartmouth government professor — but elected officials still make tempting targets for ambitious prosecutors — particularly those as prominent as a state House speaker.

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.

Tibbetts isn't sure she can muster the artistic skill for that experiment, though: «It's one thing to paint a wasp to look unfamiliar, but quite another to paint a wasp so it looks like another wasp,» she quips.

Like bald pates, black holes of similar masses and spins then have no details — no «hair» — to distinguish them, as American theorist John Archibald Wheeler quipped.

For nine minutes, you need a chest like a pigeon,» quips Uragallo, who tweaks his prototype suits in the lab, using a leaf blower in lieu of a wind tunnel, then flight - tests them while skydiving.

«I'd like to meet somebody who doesn't have problems with work - life balance,» quips Nancy Costikyan, director of the Office of Work / Life Resources at Harvard University.

Commercial space - flight mogul Elon Musk has quipped that he would like to die on Mars — just not on impact.

«Io makes Dante's Inferno seem like another day in paradise,» quipped imaging team member Alfred McEwen of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona.

Using the position of celestial bodies and earthbound landmarks whose latitude was known, astronomer Jean - Dominique Cassini and his son Jacques calculated in the early 18th century that the length of a degree of latitude seemed to increase slightly as they traveled south, indicating that Earth was pulled in at the equator, or as others quipped, like a «potbellied man wearing a tight belt.»

Once we got the doors closed and lumbered off, Guruji looked back over his shoulder at the load of people, stuff, and animals jammed into an indescribably small space and quipped, «Oh, just like India.»

I look like a teddy bear most days when I go to work, my infamous and notorious HM teddy coat (or one of six three others I live in during winter) is in fact a walking duvet so I take the quips on my chin, because after all who's the one laughing when we leave the office and it's -10 (not quite -10, but you get the idea).

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!