Sentences with phrase «who quipped»

That legislation caught the eye of comedian Steve Colbert, a South Carolina native, who quipped on his Colbert Report that «If your science gives you a result that you don't like, pass a law saying the result is illegal.

There's an old joke about a visitor to Lake Louise who quipped, «Sure, it's beautiful.

«Egghead Weds Hourglass» screamed one newspaper headline when the opposites - attract pair wed in 1956, while negative predictions and snap judgments were doled out by pundits like Truman Capote, who quipped the marriage could be called «Death of a Playwright.»

We also saw Anthony Mackie suited up as the Falcon in front of a green screen, as well as clips from the «Day One» set video featuring Robert Downey Jr., Chris Pratt, Tom Holland, and Mark Ruffalo, who quipped that the huge cast is the reason why he has «four lines in the whole movie.»

More amusing than the movie was its helmer, who quipped wildly during his introductory remarks.

James Curley, the Boston politician who quipped «vote early and vote often,» first won election from jail.

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.

So, aided by jovial chubster Det. Sherman Touhey (John Goodman), they meet a procession of available women, including one who quips, lest you forget you're watching a neo-noir: «Fate sucks, I swear!»

And for those who quips that «EU says US is better», read the comments in their PS + Updates.

Not exact matches

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.

Buffett, who has widely said that he is supporting Hillary Clinton, quipped, «That won't be the main problem.»

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.

The irony of the quip was not lost on those attending an event in Kuala Lumpur last week to commemorate Malaysia's second prime minister Abdul Razak Hussein, who died 40 years ago.

Central bankers prepare to take away punch bowl William McChesney Martin, who was US Federal Reserve chairman from 1951 to 1970, famously relayed a writer's quip that the central banker's job is to take away the punch bowl just as the party is starting to get good.

Labouring the point she quips: «For example, you could target executive women under the age of 30 with no children, in middle management but who are seeking a promotion.»

In a perhaps apocryphal story, Adolph Hitler recalled to his General Staff in 1939 the amnesty that outside powers gave to the Turkish officials who massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?&raqwho massacred over one million Armenians nearly a quarter century earlier, quipping «Who after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?&raqWho after all is today speaking about the destruction of the Armenians?»

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.)

My student's quip embodies a common criticism of the process God: that it is a godling who has been marginalized and made insignificant.

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 an evangelical can be defined as someone who says to a liberal, «I'll call you a Christian if you'll call me a scholar.»

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.

And it was Mark Twain who once quipped, «Man is the only animal that blushes or needs to.»

(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.)

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

The duke, a subtle man, asked some British comedians, the Goons, who specialize in a surrealistic form of fun (it consists of quips, unearthly chuckles, gurgles and squeaks and is popular with a huge British audience) to defend his royal honor, the proceeds of the match to go to his favorite charity, the National Playing Fields Association.

A «laser» it was, quipped Sporting manager Peter Vermes, who went on to wax poetic about a defender scoring goals.

As one lifelong member who has been coming for over 30 years quipped: «Why on earth would anyone want to attack us when we're doing such a good job of it ourselves?»

Mark Harper, 42, who looks absurdly young for his years, usually blushes and slopes off for a chat with his colleagues after the annual Simpson quip.

«It's a two - month trial,» Marc Agnifilo, Venditto's attorney, who was cross-examining Genova quipped, «we don't have anything.»

GOP consultant Ed Rollins quipped that «it's the Bernie Sanders campaign all over again,» referring to the socialist 2016 presidential also - ran, who raked in small - time donations but couldn't get the Democratic nomination.

We asked Sharpton, who sat with Spike Lee, about the morning's Oscar nominations, and he quipped, ««12 Years a Slave.»

I can't see who it is, but I know who it is,» the governor quipped from the stage.

Who would appreciate your good works when taxes drown the people, he quipped, and followed it up with «Why?

«Sorry, mayor who supported Hillary,» Mr. Buckley quipped.

«So far, I'd give [him] an A — and I hate to say good things about Democrats,» quipped Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island congressman and borough president who tangled at times with Cuomo's dad, former Gov. Mario Cuomo.

While toasting Sharpton, who hosts MSNBC's «PoliticsNation,» Lee quipped, «Though I wish it were BET.»

Governor Paterson has told reporters that he came to a decision yesterday on who to appoint to Hillary Clinton's Senate seat, but when asked the identity of that person, he quipped, «Why Michelle Obama, of course,» a joke he'd used earlier in the day with Andrea Mitchell.

«I've met great police who aren't allowed to do their job because they have a pathetic mayor or a mayor who doesn't know what's going on,» Trump said, eliciting cheers from the crowd, to which he quipped: «Were you applauding for someone in particular?»

Perhaps the most fierce instigator so far in the Syracuse campaign has been District Attorney William Fitzpatrick, who lashed out against Masterpole after the latter made a quip about the DA retiring.

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 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.

«Even for those of us who chose our parents unwisely,» Levy quips, «there's still a great deal we can do to modify our destiny.»

«Athletes aren't going to say, «Hey, take a muscle biopsy before my 100 - meter run,»» quips Johnny Huard, who developed his own set of muscle - building genes as professor of molecular genetics, biochemistry, and bioengineering at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

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.

The subtext: «We want to explain how to go abroad without being arrested,» quipped Ken - ichi Arai, dean of the University of Tokyo's Institute of Medical Science and a co-organizer of the event, which featured advice on a variety of topics from 10 Japanese scientists who have spent many years in North American laboratories.

«There are people in this room who would think bitcoin is a little old - fashioned,» he quipped.

Of that last one, Cheek quipped to me: «Who are you, who everybody's looking at yWho are you, who everybody's looking at ywho everybody's looking at you?

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).