Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jay Feaster

John Grahame is licking his chops to compete for that spot.

He needs to play more. We're going to have to chop up some time (between the backs). But, that's a good problem to have.

He might be licking his chops right now.

I gave them free rein to chop and hack and slash and cross-check and do whatever it was gonna take to keep the puck from going in.

Barbara Walters

If you could chop down a tree -- any tree at all -- what kind of tree would it be?

Ted Allen

The funny thing about Thanksgiving, or any huge meal, is that you spend 12 hours shopping for it and then chopping and cooking and braising and blanching. Then it takes 20 minutes to eat it and everybody sort of sits around in a food coma, and then it takes four hours to clean it up.

It's been a while. I haven't talked with any of the guys in WARRANT for about two years. I've done some shows on my own, just to keep my chops up, as they say. I've played here and there over the past year and a half. I haven't toured, seriously toured in well over a year though.

It will be like trying to chop down a sequoia.

It's long been a cliche in Washington that if you hang a lamb chop in your window, guests will come.

The developers are licking their chops at the potential of taking our properties. And we don't know if we have a city that's willing to help us.

They think there's a ring, and they think there's a chop shop in town.

It's not easy to chop down 40 feet of thorny vines.

Kate Christensen

After a day of writing, I love nothing more than to go into my kitchen and start chopping onions and garlic on the way to cooking an improvised meal with whatever ingredients are on hand. Cooking is the perfect counterpoint to writing. I find it more relaxing than anything else, even naps, walks, or hot baths.

After church on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, my family would go chop down our Christmas tree. Once it was home and placed in its stand, Mom and I would painstakingly decorate our tree. It took hours to place the tinsel, string the lights, find the perfect spot for my favorite macaroni and felt ornaments from kindergarten.

Bob Elliott

This is driven by the concept that you can preserve farmland while creating housing, instead of just taking the land and chopping it up.

Ken Hitchcock

That's what this league is going to be -- whoever chops the most wood at the end of the day is going to win.

You sometimes lost track of what the long-term view of Arrowhead would look like. When you're in the middle of the forest chopping trees down, it's hard to get a perspective of what the whole forest looks like. It's succeeded beyond, certainly, my expectations.

We're artificially tweaking the market now. But I'm not going to chop up my bumpers to meet the requirements.

We wanted to chop up those last 16 seconds with some fouls. We felt Gabe (Landau) got one at the time line, but it wasn't called. So (Henderson) penetrated and got right down the lane.

We have a lot of wood to chop before the equity market can get out of its grand funk. And you know, actually my concern is we're going to test the old lows.

Zackie Achmat

We don't want our men to go to the chop shop, but have medical circumcision.

Menzies Campbell

We chop off hair... they chop off hands.

The results were 5 to 5.5 feet of water inside the homes around there, with authorities telling people to go upstairs with an ax and chop a hole in your roof so you could climb out and stand on that roof, waiting to be rescued.

Mike Holmgren

Sean has played pretty well so we're going to let him play, ... But we're going to get Chop (Womack) in there to play a little bit.

Siri Hustvedt

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.

David Tom

Just a fun day to play golf. I definitely think last week helped me, coming in here when we had tough conditions (the first two days). Then when it doesn't blow, and you can hit a normal shot, you're licking your chops that, hey, I can score here.

Ruth Reichl

Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'

I do really have a concern about chopping up five days, but maybe there aren't any alternatives.

Linden Ashby

Why are people always shooting zombies? Why not just chop their heads off? How can zombies get you if you have a good sword?

Tiger Woods

You look down that list, you can't really say that guy was a chop ball-striker. You have to hit every single golf shot. Plus, this golf course, you have to manage your game so well. The majority of the winners who have come through here are major championship winners.

Imagine the ball has little legs, and chop them off.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.

We have to keep chopping at the block,