| However, he must beware the pitfalls of trying to be too smart-alecky, too ready with the cringe-making quip. |
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| A single maladroit quip or an unscripted dramatic moment on the campaign trail could spell the difference between victory and defeat. |
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| Ask a few actorish questions about creativity and motivation and he bats them back with a quip about needing the money. |
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| We all look to Frank as somebody who, when we were making difficult decisions, was there with a funny quip. |
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| At home, he had been funny, sociable, and always ready for a quip or a practical joke. |
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| Although indicative of his fondness for frippery, the quip also points to his lack of political insight. |
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| We can destroy with a cutting quip or a damning phrase but nobody expects us to create. |
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| Never go for the subtle quip when the goofy sledgehammer punchline will do. |
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| Every one-liner out of her mouth is apparently some blindingly hilarious quip worthy of quoting for the ages. |
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| The quip is meant to make a point about ownership and stakeholding, and how people generally invest their resources in things they own. |
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| And I was amused when the NBR leapt on my quip that they were chardonnay socialists, but it's probably not that far from the truth. |
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| Sometimes he can come up with a good quip on the spot, but other than that, he is pretty cringeworthy. |
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| Every political side gets their shot at a bon mot, a quip, or a zinger. |
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| When candidates try to be funny they mostly play it safe with a self-deprecatory quip. |
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| Ryan and Lauren quip that it took longer for them to agree on a farm name than to name each of their four children. |
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| One might quip that if South Africa was in Eastern Europe, it would probably fail to be considered for membership of the European Union. |
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| That is a cute quip in question period, but it does not answer a very serious question. |
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| He was a man of great humour, one who always had a spark in his eyes and always had a very benign quip at any situation. |
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| Wasn't it the famous American physicist Richard Feynman who used to quip that the vaguer a scientific concept, the more useful it is? |
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| The brothers quip their way through divorce, intermarriage and sibling rivalry over whom Dad really liked best. |
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| Through the systematic transformation of these interventions into artistic gestures, Gianni MOTTI appraises the quip,?everything is art? |
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| To paraphrase Voltaire's quip, the state-sanctioned serial monogamy license some folks are at the barricades to defend is neither traditional nor definitive nor a marriage. |
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| I've always tried to defuse situations with a one-liner, quip, or smile. |
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| Quick with a quip and so square jawed that he actually dreams about his supersonic flying automobile, his heroics help keep the Supercar staff safe and sound. |
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| Pepper, a phrase drawn from a quip by another contender, means a second round in the presidential election, to be held in June. |
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| Within hours of releasing my quip into the Twittersphere, five different publications jumped on it. |
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| While I was in high school an aneurysm formed near one of those fragments requiring a bypass, thus leading Pop to quip that he had sewer pipe in his leg. |
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| Mr Peters had them rolling on the paepae with his first quip. |
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| In one of the moments I chatted briefly with him he made a quip about my work that my mother still quotes to this day. |
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| It is little wonder that this week, some Bulgarians began to quip about the analogy between the game and the challenges lying ahead of the Stanishev Cabinet. |
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| That quip reflected his own travails with thinking outside the box. |
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| To an unsuspecting America – he'd already shown his true colours on UK TV on Pop Idol – Simon Cowell was the waspish, perma roll-necked quote generator whose aim was to destroy people's dreams one quip at a time. |
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| That quip has been doing the rounds since Tesco confessed last week to exaggerating its profits by £250m, and it strikes at the heart of the scandal. |
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| In any case, Shaw's quip does not stand up to logic. |
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| This week Mr Berlusconi incautiously promised to increase that number tenfold, before backing away. In characteristic style he did so with a politically incorrect quip that drew criticism even from his supporters. |
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| The uproar over Ferguson's off-the-cuff quip sent me back to reread it. |
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| Related: Alan Bond: the rise, spectacular fall and rise again of the America's Cup hero Hawke's quip comes from a live interview with Channel Nine, a segment that captured the hysteria that the cup win engendered. |
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| New Hampshire is also a much bigger democratic exercise than Iowa, hence former New Hampshire governor John Sununu's famous, though not entirely accurate quip, that Iowa picks corn while New Hampshire picks presidents. |
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| But while the trio might quip and joke their songcraft is second to none and in Stories they had a brilliantly apt song to close a library set. |
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| What makes this little quip particularly unfunny is that it is undoubtedly true. |
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| Other hydrogeologists quip that there would be no reason to invest in tearing dams down later in Lebanon, because nature alone could do it. |
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| I once heard Smith quip that the three main schools of Buddhism were the Mahayana, the Hinayana, and the Bay Area haoles, and I have experienced them all. |
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| On Monday afternoon I received an email from Quip saying they couldn't add the credit to my account as it was temporarily blocked. |
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