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.

( This quip is obviously tongue-in-cheek as the film One Hundred and One Dalmatians was not made until seven years later in 1961 and thus the title would not have been seen by him on a Leicester Square cinema marquee in 1954.

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.

One icon would dispense a quip or general observation, and another would dispense a hint, and often as not a quip as well.

Pierce is widely credited for saying " Nature abhors a vacuum tube ", but Pierce attributed that quip to Myron Glass.

" The sheer volume of the literature that has grown up around it inspired Pat Hayes to quip that the field of cognitive science ought to be redefined as " the ongoing research program of showing Searle's Chinese Room Argument to be false.

In the winter, the Red Sox traded right fielder Ben Chapman to the Cleveland Indians to make room for Williams on the roster, with Williams inheriting Chapman's number 9 on his uniform opposed to Williams ' number 5 in the previous spring training, even though Chapman had hit. 340 in the previous season, which led Boston Globe sports journalist Gerry Moore to quip, " Not since Joe DiMaggio broke in with the Yankees by " five for five " in St. Petersberg in 1936 has any baseball rookie received the nationwide publicity that has been accorded this spring to Theodore Francis Williams ".

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.

This has led to a running joke whereby Grohl greets the end of Hawkins ' stint as lead vocalist with the quip " You know, for a drummer you're not a bad singer ", to which Hawkins retorts " Neither are you ".

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.

Brown of New Jersey quipped that the reason the sun never set upon the Empire was that God did not trust the British in the dark-the quip has been attributed to Abraham Lincoln, among others.

The April 21, 2006, The Dallas Morning News called Katy Trail “ one of our city ’ s favorite outdoor spaces .” Katy Trail has become such a popular jogging location that some Dallasites quip, “ The trains don ’ t run here any more.

In response to a quip about its diminutive size, Hammond responds by calling it ' the Caterham of lorries ' due to the fact it has an engine that could match Jeremy Clarkson's Renault Magnum, but as light and as small as James May's Scania P94D.

Sometimes, certain animals would carry appropriate signs with some kind of quip ( e. g. Hee Haw Donkey holding a sign that would say, " I'm looking for a " She-Haw!

For some discussion of the subtleties of the Eötvös experiment, such as the local mass distribution around the experimental site ( including a quip about the mass of Eötvös himself ), see Franklin.

Bowdoin's connections to the Civil War have prompted some to quip that the war " began and ended " in Brunswick.

In some cases, the price differential is 2-to-1 or more, resulting in the quip that the " gum on the back of a stamp is the most valuable substance in the world ".

A more recent adaptation of Warhol's quip, possibly prompted by the rise of online social networking, blogging, and similar online phenomena, is the claim that " In the future, everyone will be famous to fifteen people " or, in some renditions, " On the Web, everyone will be famous to fifteen people ".

The Wall Street Journal refers to Sabato as " probably the most quoted college professor in the land " and some members of the news media have a rhyme referring to Sabato's availability for a quick quip on politics: " Need a quote / Do not tarry / Call U-Va ./ And ask for Larry.

Brownmiller later said that when she wrote the article, she had intended to use a humorous quip to distance herself from Friedan's homophobia ( Jay 140, Brownmiller 82 ), but some lesbian feminists ( especially Michela Griffo ) took her remarks as " a scathing put-down " ( Brownmiller 82 ) and " evidence of Susan's homophobia or closet homosexuality -- that is, that she was trying to distance herself from lesbians by insulting us " ( Jay 140 )— because they felt that the quip dismissed lesbians as an insignificant part of the movement, or lesbian issues as unnecessary distractions from the important issues.

The quip highlights that " opportunism " is not infrequently used as a term of abuse, but also that it involves some moral ambiguity:

As Attorney General, incensed by those " mercenary corporate executives who are making life so miserable for millions of Californians " without ever having to face " the ugly reality of a prison cell ", Lockyer, during the Enron scandal of 2001 which led to the then-largest corporate bankruptcy in American history, achieved some notoriety for his public quip, " I would love to personally escort Ken Lay < nowiki > CEO Kenneth Lay < nowiki ></ nowiki > to an 8-by-10 cell that he could share with a tattooed dude who says, ' Hi, my name is Spike, honey '".

Forms of wit include the quip and repartee.

Gomez's plaque says he was " Noted for his wit and his fastball, as he was fast with a quip and a pitch.