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This is the period referred to in Barks ' famed quip that he could feel his creative juices flowing while the whiskey bottles hurled at him by a tipsy Clara flew by his head.
Visiting the U. S. for the first time in 1987, Raisa irked Reagan with lectures on subjects ranging from architecture to socialism, reportedly prompting the American President's wife to quip, " Who does that dame think she is?
The tendency for managers to repeat such errors in project development led Brooks to quip that his book is called " The Bible of Software Engineering ", because " everybody quotes it, some people read it, and a few people go by it.
One of her most frequently quoted sayings is a quip about her famously voluptuous figure: " Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.
" He was known to have enjoyed the quip once made by Alfred Lunt: " The art of acting is — learn your lines!
Even if the bad bishop is passively placed, it may serve a useful defensive function ; a well-known quip from GM Mihai Suba is that " Bad bishops protect good pawns.
The mind of a newborn child is regarded as completely " id-ridden ", in the sense that it is a mass of instinctive drives and impulses, and needs immediate satisfaction, a view which equates a newborn child with an id-ridden individual — often humorously — with this analogy: an alimentary tract with no sense of responsibility at either end, paraphrasing a quip made by former U. S. President Ronald Reagan during his 1965 campaign for Governor of California in which he compared government to a baby.
A well-known example of cryptograms in contemporary culture is the syndicated newspaper puzzle Crypto quip.
He is often remembered for the quip attributed to him: " A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon, you're talking real money.
Many of these families remain in Stockbridge today and it is common for Stockbridge natives to quip that ' everyone in this town is related.
The name of the borough is typically pronounced " moo-NAH-kee ;" however, in January 1987, then-Mayor of New York City Ed Koch pronounced it " mah-NOO-chee " when he made his now-famous quip that the New York Giants should hold their victory parade in the borough after the team had just won Super Bowl XXI.
Ailes is credited with the " Orchestra Pit Theory " regarding sensationalist political coverage in the news media, which originated with his quip:
A common quip about football is: " Os ingleses o inventaram, os brasileiros o aperfeiçoaram " (" The English invented it, the Brazilians perfected it ").
" Timothy Healy, a notoriously waspish MP, responded with the quip, " Who is the mistress of the party?
In later life, Corot's studio was filled with students, models, friends, collectors, and dealers who came and went under the tolerant eye of the master, causing him to quip, " Why is it that there are ten of you around me, and not one of you thinks to relight my pipe.
The tone here is one of arrogance ; the quip " inferiority of his peers " shows Charlie's belief in his own prowess.
Oddly, despite the phrase ' secret police ' in the title, there is nothing relating to any secret police in the plot except Col. Neilsen's quip when several of the characters are together.
Perhaps the reference to Curll most often repeated by posterity is John Arbuthnot's quip that Curll's biographies had become " one of the new terrors of death " ( quoted in Robert Carruthers, The Poetical Works of Pope, 1853, vol.
A quip that Plutarch gives us is when Gaius gave a clever retort to a political opponent who had attacked Cornelia.
A quip is an observation or saying that has some wit but perhaps descends into sarcasm, or otherwise is short of point ; a witticism also suggests the diminutive.

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* Baldwin's quip could be taken to imply that opportunism equates to choosing to pursue one's self-interest as a supreme principle of survival ; labeling somebody an " opportunist " would be presuming a lack of integrity, perhaps out of ignorance about what his or her integrity consists in ( obviously, availing oneself of an opportunity does not automatically make one an " opportunist ").

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One quip from Marx concerned his response to Sam Wood, the director of the classic film A Night at the Opera.
Many years later, after he had gone to Hollywood and become a film star, Gielgud was to quip: " He was a great influence on me.
He also does not appear in Frank Miller's graphic novel 300 or the film based on it ; his famous quip is delivered instead by the fictional character Stelios.

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(" Had I looked the other direction ," he would later quip, " I'd be known as Michael The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
One icon would dispense a quip or general observation, and another would dispense a hint, and often as not a quip as well.

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A German quip says that the toilet paper of Nazi Germany was so rough and scratchy that it was almost unusable, so many people used old issues of the Völkischer Beobachter instead because the paper was softer.
Berle's program was broadcast in the same time slot as Fulton J. Sheen's religious program for a while, thus leading to Berle's oft-quoted quip, " We both have the same boss – Sky Chief!
The Philadelphia-based group Pieces Of A Dream had a minor hit in 1983 with the R & B song " Fo-Fi-Fo ", which title was prompted by Malone's quip.
The center was named for a quip from Radner, who said, " Having cancer gave me membership in an elite club I'd rather not belong to.
The ' Dragon ' name, which has been attributed to an off-hand quip by a teacher at rival school Summer Fields, gained popularity, and in time, the school was officially renamed to the Dragon School.
" Historian Steven E. Woodworth wrote, " Beneath the ponderous dome of his high forehead, the General would gaze goggle-eyed at those who spoke to him, reflecting long before answering and simultaneously rubbing both elbows all the while, leading one observer to quip that the great intelligence he was reputed to possess must be located in his elbows.
Gardner was deeply involved in every aspect of the design, though, leading Sears to quip that he was merely the structural engineer making Gardner's design possible.
When a lady friend rebuked him for this on the basis that Eldon was now over eighty, Landor replied unmoved with the quip " The devil is older ".
She was very prolific at this work and was known in the business for her quip ' Do you want it good, or do you want it Wednesday?
During the first season Tony made a playful, but very sarcastic quip about Canada and was forced to apologize.
The NDP rebuilt itself and went through a painful confrontation between a left-wing movement dubbed " The Waffle " ( a name derived from Toronto leftist economist Gordon Laxer's quip that if he was perceived to be " waffling " on a policy question, then he'd " rather waffle to the left than waffle to the right ") and the more centrist-oriented party establishment.
He was born Iţec ( Itzek ) Domnici in Ungheni, Iaşi County, Bessarabia, Romania, present day Moldova, was referred to as " Iz " in Hollywood, and was known to quip that his initials stood for " Interscholastic Algebra League ".
This design — more commonly seen in European soccer stadiums — prompted Cowboys linebacker D. D. Lewis to make his now-famous quip " Texas Stadium has a hole in its roof so God can watch His favorite team play ", often paraphrased as the " hole " in the stadium's roof was there " so that God can watch His team.
" Soon after, Royal took a phone call from comedian Gérald Dahan pretending to be Quebec Premier Jean Charest, and was tricked into making a quip about Corsica's independence: " Not all French people would be opposed.

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The quip was made by critics and then later embraced by the Boston community that " Unitarian preaching is limited to fatherhood of God, the brotherhood of man and the neighborhood of Boston.
Although Moran and Mack's gags were mostly corny ( and very often non-racial ) and the characters were stereotypical ( one practical but naive, the other seemingly slow and lazy yet quick with a quip and a certain skewed logic ), the relationship depicted plus their laconic delivery made them one of the most successful of comedy teams.
They also made an appearance on the first episode of The Arsenio Hall Show where they performed " Run Down Love Battery " causing Arsenio to quip, " We've all had one of those.
However, it was the ability of japan black to dry quickly that made it a favorite of early mass produced automobiles such as Henry Ford's Model T. The Ford company's reliance on japan black led Henry Ford to quip " Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black ".
In 1984, Hooker published his autobiography, Not Much Of An Engineer, referring to a quip Hives had made soon after they met.

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