An often quoted example is Samuel Johnson's definition for oats: " Oats: a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people ", to which his Scots friend, Lord Elibank, retorted, " Yes, and where else will you see such horses and such men?

" Yes, the Ice Is Melting, But Not Because of Us ", The New York Times, September 14, 2000.

", Carter replied with the famous words: " Yes, wonderful things.

* http :// www. odeo. com / channel / 105280 " Just Say Yes to the Noosphere ", a Podcast from Stanford Law School

The Pet Shop Boys song " Building A Wall ", from their 2009 album Yes, contains the lyric " Jesus and the Man From U. N. C. L. E.

The editorial, which included the famous reply " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ", has become an indelible part of popular Christmas folklore in the United States and Canada.

* The story is referenced in the line, " we relive in Seagull's pages ", in the second track of the 1973 Yes album, Tales from Topographic Oceans.

If any player would answer " Yes ", then that set of strategies is not a Nash equilibrium.

", and reboot his mind by explaining him a simplified version of the God as essentially omnipotent solution (" Yes.

She appeared in " Equal Opportunities ", a 1982 episode of the BBC series Yes Minister, playing a senior civil servant in Jim Hacker's Department.

Rourke wrote the music for three Morrissey B-sides released in 1989 and 1990 (" Yes, I Am Blind ", " Girl Least Likely To ", and " Get Off the Stage ").

Wakeman featured playing this instrument, to varying degrees, on the David Bowie track " Space Oddity ", the Yes albums Fragile, Close to the Edge and Tales From Topographic Oceans, as well as the solo albums The Six Wives of Henry VIII and White Rock.

Discussing paintings of pleasant landscapes, Lady Croom mistranslates the phrase as " here I am in Arcadia ", on which Thomasina drily comments, " Yes Mama, if you would have it so ".

) Among performing her classic hits, other numbers unreleased in the album version included " I Believe You " by The Carpenters, a rap version of " Liza With A ' Z '", " Yes ", and Mary J. Blige's " Family Affair.

It ought to be good enough for me ", and to the objection of triviality he replied " Yes.

Smith also contributed a new song, " Miss Misery ," and three previously-released tracks (" No Name # 3 ", from Roman Candle, and " Angeles " and " Say Yes ", from Either / Or ).

He called for the new-born artists, the " anti-Alexanders ", to heal the wound and repair the knot: " Yes, the rebirth is in the hands of all of us.

Another Yes, Prime Minister episode, " The Bishop's Gambit ", parodied liberal Christianity and politics in the Church of England.

Adam Curtis, in his three-part TV documentary The Trap, criticised the series as " ideological propaganda for a political movement ", and claimed that Yes Minister is indicative of a larger movement of criticism of government and bureaucracy, centred upon public choice economics.

In 2005, BBC Four launched The Thick of It, described by director Armando Iannucci as " Yes Minister meets Larry Sanders ", and The Daily Telegraph called it " a Yes, Minister for the Labour years.

In response to a sarcastic interjection about " starving permanent secretaries ", Sir Humphrey patronises her as " dear lady " ( as he did " that Wainwright female " in the TV series ).< ref >< Jay & Lynn ( 2010 ) Yes, Prime Minister, especially pages 14, 32 and 81-3 .</ ref > Emily Joyce, who played Claire both at Chichester and in London, was forty-one when the play opened.

* Yes Minister: Series Three & " Party Games ", released 5 May 2003

`` Yes '', she said, almost in a whisper, as if admitting to a crime.

`` Yes '', she said, `` I remember that they came here every summer.

`` Yes, sir '', she said, `` is that definite ''??

Arlene was so ashamed that she hung her head when she said, `` Yes, sir ''.

Yes, she had missed it after her talk with Emile, after dinner, just before Emile was shot.

Yes, this is she??

`` Yes '', she said quietly.

According to George Bush, when he asked her to marry him, she had said, " Yes.

** Gabriel's announcement to the Theotokos that she will conceive the Christ, and her " Yes "

The decision is left ambiguous ( though likely a ' Yes ') as it is also implied that the melding of the minds may be to the child's benefit and that she may have sinister intentions about it.

" Warner replied, " Yes, she must play it.

In early 2008, she performed on the song " Yes We Can ", a will. i. am project supporting Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

There, she found work in The Greenwich Village Follies after an audition in which she sang the song " Yes, We Have No Bananas ' in French.

In 1983, she won the Buga Festival, in Buga, Colombia with a song that she wrote her self called Sí ( Yes ).

This in spite of watching several US Navy detailers repeatedly nodding their heads saying ' Yes, that's how I do it ' while watching IDA's internal and external actions as she performs her task.

Christie then tells her that she is just a bitter, dried-up career woman while she is happily married, to which Lisa answers, " Yes Christie, keep telling yourself that.

She said that she heard Mary reply, " Yes, I shall take Francisco and Jacinta soon, but you will remain a little longer, since Jesus wishes you to make me known and loved on earth.

Yes, I suppose you have to say that freedom of sexual choice is part of that, but it shouldn't be the main issue ...." She ignored lesbians in the National Organization for Women ( NOW ) initially but objected to what she saw as demands for equal time.

One male heckler asked her if she could cook a dinner, to which she responded, " Yes.