At a press conference of law school deans in 1998 decrying the annual US News Law School Rankings, New York University School of Law Dean John Sexton quipped, " If they were asked about Princeton Law School, it would appear on the top 20 -- but it doesn't exist " ( Sexton was denouncing the US News usage of reputation survey results from judges, lawyers and law school deans in its ranking formula, expressing doubt over the expertise of some surveyed ).

Macmillan famously quipped that it was Britain ’ s historical duty to guide the power of the United States as the ancient Greeks had the Romans.

At its annual dinner in 1979, Bell was the Alfalfa nominee for President of the United States and quipped as he began his acceptance speech that he hoped that President Carter would now understand the full meaning of his warning that he would not serve as Attorney General during the President's re-election campaign.

Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone once quipped, " I think the Jehovah's Witnesses ought to have an endowment in view of the aid which they give in solving the legal problems of civil liberties.

G. K. Chesterton quipped: " Mr. Wells is a born storyteller who has sold his birthright for a pot of message.

Radcliffe, however, not only wrote little but also took a certain iconoclastic pride in having read little, remarking once of some vials of herbs and a skeleton in his study: “ This is Radcliffe ’ s library .” However, he bequeathed a substantial sum of money to Oxford for the founding of the Radcliffe Library, an endowment which, Samuel Garth quipped, was “ about as logical as if a eunuch should found a seraglio .”

Well known for his wit and sense of humor, one of Marshall's most enduring jokes came during a Senate debate in which, in response to Senator Joseph Bristow's catalog of the nation's needs, Marshall quipped the often-repeated phrase, " What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar ", provoking laughter.

" He then quipped, loudly enough for most of the chamber to hear, " What this country needs is a really good five-cent cigar ", which provoked laughter from a number of senators.

One newspaper quipped that he'd probably stay for another year once he realised " that Dundee rhymes with 1893 ".

Jerry left the room and returned a few moments later with his head shaved ( though his mustache remained for a time ), and then quipped " Boy, do I look girly.

" Come, Léonard, dress my hair, I must go like an actress, exhibit myself to a public that may hiss me ", the queen quipped to her hairdresser, who was one of her " ministers of fashion ", as she prepared for the Mass celebrating the return of the Estates General on 4 May 1789.

When asked once about infidelity, he famously quipped, " Why go out for a hamburger when you have steak at home?

Senator Charles Sumner credited Uncle Tom's Cabin for the election of Abraham Lincoln and Lincoln himself reportedly quipped that Stowe had triggered the American Civil War.

Morrissey famously quipped of the last, " One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England " (" torture " being a reference to the music that resulted from the project ).

Charles Taylor, writing for Salon, quipped " Chasing Amy isn't going to single-handedly save romantic comedy, but Smith ( Clerks ) has made the only romantic comedy in quite a while that acknowledges, even celebrates, the fact that love and sex are emotional anarchy.

Chicago Fire offensive lineman Steve Wright quipped bitterly that he had been offered a million dollar contract: " A dollar a year for a million years!

This part of the second great quintet is an ironic footnote for Davis, who was not fond of Dolphy's music ( in a 1964 Down Beat " Blindfold Test ", Miles famously quipped, " The next time I see I'm going to step on his foot.

When Groucho was asked for an explanation of the title, he quipped, " Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together.

Known for a sense of humour, at an early meeting with Ahern at the Irish embassy in London, Paisley requested breakfast and asked for boiled eggs ; when Ahern asked him why he had wanted boiled eggs, Paisley quipped " it would be hard for you to poison them ".

Rob Salem of The Toronto Star quipped that though the actors looked silly on occasion, this was a benefit ; " as their capacity for action has diminished, their comedic talents have blossomed [...] they have all become masters of self-deprecating self-parody.

His long-serving deputy at the Treasury, Joel Barnett, in response to a remark by a third party that " Denis Healey would sell his own grandmother ", quipped, " No, he would get me to do it for him ".

In late 1993, the partners hired independent cartoonist Larry Marder to act as " executive director " for the publisher ; Valentino quipped in interviews that Marder's job was literally to " direct the executives " ( i. e. the Image partners ).

When asked in a 2001 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation documentary on the resurgence of the PC Party if he would ever consider running for the PC leadership, MacKay quipped, " If there's one thing I've learned in politics it's ' never say never.

Hoffman quipped for the press, " I regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country ," paraphrasing the last words of revolutionary patriot Nathan Hale ; meanwhile Rubin, who was wearing a matching Viet Cong flag, shouted that the police were Communists for not arresting him also.

In 1990, asked to comment on the resignation of cabinet colleague Norman Fowler who had given as the reason for his resignation the wish " to spend more time with my family ", Ridley quipped dryly that the last thing he wanted to do was spend more time with his family.

The CueCat's critics said the device was ultimately of little use: wrote Jeff Salkowski of the Chicago Tribune, " You have to wonder about a business plan based on the notion that people want to interact with a soda can ," while Debbie Barham of the Evening Standard quipped that the CueCat " fails to solve a problem which never existed.

" Critics also noted its generally asexual treatment of homosexuality: Janet Maslin commented in the New York Times that the film is not one " to associate gayness with actual sex ," while TV Guide quipped that it " finally gets discussion about gay people out of the bedroom and into the record store.

" On an appearance on The Tonight Show, from New York, Levant once quipped that his Jaguar ambulance was waiting outside for him.

Spahn was reunited with his first manager 23 years later, for the even more woeful last-place New York Mets, and --- referring to Stengel's success with the 1949-60 New York Yankees --- later quipped, " I'm probably the only guy who played for Casey before and after he was a genius.

The New Yorker quipped that though Maia's career as a Playboy Bunny was reminiscent of Watership Down, she seemed more like a fish, and her swimming " changes ... much more than her career ".

When the late syndicated columnist Ann Landers used a racially derogatory term to describe Pope John Paul II in The New Yorker, Moskal quipped, " She should have shut up after she made the nice remark about the pope.

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.

New Musical Express praised the " cleanly recorded " song, as well as the " ood singer ", and quipped that if Queen " look half as good as they sound, they could be huge ".

Most often credited as Harry " A " Chesler — the " A " was an affectation rather than a true initial, and Chesler sometimes quipped it stood for " anything " — Chesler was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, grew up in East Orange, and worked in the furniture business before he went into comics.

Director / actor John Cassavetes contemplating Capra ’ s contribution to the art of film quipped: “ Maybe there really wasn ’ t an America, it was only Frank Capra .” Capra ’ s films were his love letters to an idealized America — a cinematic landscape of his own invention.

He quipped to Carson, " Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a pair of brown shoes?

In a later interview, when the band were collectively asked what they had learned from making a solo album, Sean Moore dryly quipped, " Not to do one ".

As Seymour Cray famously quipped, " If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use?

Actor David Sheiner, who played James the Elder, quipped in an interview about the snowdrifts: “ I thought we were shooting Nanook of the North .” Stevens was also under pressure to hurry the John the Baptist sequence, which was shot at the Glen Canyon area – it was scheduled to become Lake Powell with the completion of the Glen Canyon Dam, and the production held up the project.

Romanow later quipped that he was a supporter of Tony Blair's Third Way concept before it even existed, and there were many who doubted the party's continued commitment to social democracy.

During a 2005 television show where he and Eddie Miró were being introduced as spokesmen in Puerto Rico for colon cancer, he quipped that, at his age, he can still jog everyday from Santurce to past the Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Isla Verde, which constitutes a considerable distance ( more than five miles ).

Dans allegedly quipped that Buendia and Ventura were " probably too high on drugs " to remember the gig's schedule.

" Adoro quipped in the same interview that it was natural for Buendia to graduate first, since he was in batch ' 87 of their college ( UP Diliman ), while the rest were in batch ' 88.

He joined the Royal Navy at the end of the Second World War because, as he quipped to the recruiting officer, the uniforms were ' so much nicer '.

Halliburton later quipped that getting hired and getting fired by the Perkins Oil Well Cementing Company were the two best opportunities he had ever received.

He quipped, to general outrage, that if rape were inevitable, one should relax and enjoy it.

The Cougars never quite recovered from the public relations disaster ; one sports reporter had quipped, " The Cougars were beaten by the greatest lightweight of them all — Peter Pan.

Some who he quipped were the " art mafia " have called his style populist and derivative.