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.

" He was known to have enjoyed the quip once made by Alfred Lunt: " The art of acting is — learn your lines!

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!

( 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.

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Guido Cavalcanti by a quip meetly rebukes certain Florentine gentlemen who had taken him at a disadvantage.

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 ".

Plutarch's Moralia contains a collection of " Sayings of Spartan Women ", including a laconic quip attributed to Gorgo: when asked by a woman from Attica why Spartan women were the only women in the world who could rule men, she replied " Because we are the only women who are mothers of men ".

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.

This is one of the principal areas in which lesbian feminism differs from queer theory, perhaps best summarised by Judith Halberstam's quip that " If Sheila Jeffreys didn't exist, Camille Paglia would have had to invent her.

In the sequel, the passage way to the Batcave is uncovered by turning on the lights of an ornament in a nearby aquarium and dropping through a false floor in an iron maiden, although Alfred does quip that he'll " take the stairs.

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 ".

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.

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.

Welcoming signs on roads entering the town quip " You've come a long way ..." in reference to the World War I-era song written by Englishmen Harry Williams and Jack Judge ( whose grandparents came from Tipperary ) " It's a Long Way to Tipperary ", which became popular among the British military as a marching song.

However, Gabibbo's head is almost an exact copy of Big Red's ( a fact repeated by The New York Times < nowiki >'</ nowiki > business section, who quip that Gabibbo is simply a " better dressed " version of Big Red ) and that Big Red debuted in 1979, almost eleven years prior to Gabibbo.

The wrought-iron lattice separating the chapel from the nave was forged by Caspar Fincke in 1619, and contains an amusing quip by its creator:

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 '".

(" Had I looked the other direction ," he would later quip, " I'd be known as Michael The One Hundred and One Dalmatians.

Jon Stewart would later quip, " You wrote it, you just didn't watch it!

He would later quip, " The American Cowboy is the best dressed man.