Popping Quotations

If you think about jeans or phones or television, we are used to new brands popping up right and left. But in the car industry, we grew up with Mercedes, BMW, General Motors, and Ford, and nobody can remember during his or her upbringing a new car brand coming to life.

My interests and obsessions have always been so wide-ranging that I keep popping my head out of different boxes as much as possible.

What's weird is the Hot Boys and the whole New Orleans Cash Money thing had a really big impact on the Bay when that was popping off. I don't all the way understand it. I mean, I know that they were big everywhere and had a lot of commercial success in the mid to late '90s, but they were really, really felt in the Bay Area.

I write what I think is funny and I write from a sense of popping a balloon or a sense of injustice, whether it's about yourself, or whether it's about something else. It's my worldview; it doesn't mean that everybody has to agree with it.

Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn't keep them from popping.

I didn't feel the tusk go through me. But I did feel this sort of freight elevator coming down, popping the chicken bones, you know. It blinded me. Everything was black. It was bright noon day sun. You mustn't get walked on by elephants.

Bitcoins are not a real investment; they are bets inside a casino. If the price goes back up, don't be fooled. In the parlance of popping investment bubbles, it's something called a 'dead-cat bounce.' People who are desperate to keep the game going rush back in, hoping to bring the price back up, but it never lasts.

I'm fascinated by caddy Buddhists popping up all over Hollywood and people that take themselves too seriously.

It's so funny when you're actually directing because things start popping that you don't expect to pop, and something that you think is going to pop, maybe doesn't quite have the impetus that you thought it might.

On a sea floor that looks like a sandy mud bottom, that at first glance might appear to be sand and mud, when you look closely and sit there as I do for a while and just wait, all sorts of creatures show themselves, with little heads popping out of the sand. It is a metropolis.

My hair is God's aura. Everything went up when I got home from the penitentiary. One night I went to lie down next to my wife, and my hair started popping and uncurling all on its own - ping, ping, ping, ping! I knew that it was God telling me to stay on the righteous path so he could one day pull me up to be there with him.

For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.

A juicy chicken breast can be the perfect accompaniment to a classic Caesar salad or a club sandwich. It's also easy to cook, and can be as simple as dressing it with a few spices and popping in the oven.

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that.

Work will be popping up all over the place.

You know I've got a generator that's still popping.

We have players that can make turnovers. We've shown that today, whether it's somebody popping the ball out, somebody picking the ball off. We just have players that make big-time plays.

Since the attacks occurred there, their economy is on the verge of disaster right now. And simultaneously there is a strong building going on of minarets. You see new mosques popping up in a lot of places and you see a lot of the gaps being filled from what the country can provide to these Islamic organizations that are helping.

She kept popping up at places I was supposed to be.

Of course I'd like children. But I have to get over my impression that being pregnant is like popping corn. You expand and expand until you pop.

Obviously, this is an age where chronic conditions start popping up. This raises concerns about people's ability to maintain their health as they move toward retirement and toward Medicare.

Popping broad beans out of their skins can be therapeutic, but it isn't everybody's favourite waste of time.

New things popping up -- and something nobody thought about 30 years ago.

I would be if he did it all the time. He's run the ball well. Runs are popping out there.

I don't know what happened. I can't even begin to explain it. I wasn't pressing. I thought I was relaxed, but it kept popping out of my hands. I've never had a game like that.

I am used to popping in, doing my thing, then getting out very cleanly and hitting the golf course,

I can't even get to my (e-mail) because there's spam popping up all over the place.

If it were something where he was riding a motorcycle and he was popping some wheelies and he got hurt, than maybe I would be a bit more concerned. It was just a freak accident.

If the commission isn't popping the champagne in response, I would be very surprised.

We took a pretty good licking. They were mad and popping the pads.

Hyper-mobility in the joint, where it moves around too much. It keeps popping around and flares it up. That's my guess.

He was about to become a starter. He's just 6-foot-1, but he plays bigger that that. He just landed on someone's foot during a scrimmage in practice. The scary thing is he's had injures before and you hope it's not something that's going to keep popping up.

He was about to become a starter. He's just 6-foot-1, but he plays bigger than that. He just landed on someone's foot during a scrimmage in practice. The scary thing is he's had injures before and you hope it's not something that's going to keep popping up.

There are subdivisions popping up all over the place.

I was a kid when Dean came out. Dean was the inspiration. Even the red jacket he wore in 'Rebel Without a Cause,' you saw that red jacket popping up all over the place. He really reached people in a way; it was kind of a phenomenon when you think of it. I wonder what it would be like today, that kind of a person ... he made that connection with his audience. And I remember at that time my mother loved him. He reached everybody.

I was able to keep popping out from behind a horse every so often and before I knew it we were straightening up with clear running ahead of us.

Over the past five years in particular new websites have been popping up all over the world, selling DVDs mainly and some downloading films into your TV set. Bigger and better sites are on the way. I have been designing such a site for several years now which could go global within a year or two.

My mom has been real positive and my dad has been so instrumental, ... He's like a ninja -- he's popping up everywhere. He's always scoping me out and keeping an eye on me. I always try to be on my best behavior because of him.

It didn't think of popping around the corner and popping a copy through the door.

That was really exciting. We had been popping up all day, and I was just trying to stay back and drive the ball.

We played lousy; very, very badly. Our defense didn't play well, and all of a sudden, we're not hitting the ball, just popping up and swinging at bad pitches.

We were having a conversation at our home, and every time he said something where one might gesture, use a hand gesture, his finger was popping up, and we both started to notice it,

The overall direction of the China - U.S. relationship is a positive one, although from time to time there will be problems popping up, but every time the problem can be well-resolved,

When you're orchestrating lots of Web services together to form a complex business process, management is popping up as a pretty key item.

When I got my headshots done, there was this woman screaming at me to blow my lips out. She kept saying, 'You want to be like Scarlett Johansson, don't you?' In the shot, my eyes are popping out; I look terrified. I realised I'd rather not get a job than go through pain to be something I'm not.

You're almost always better off keeping your mouth shut, but don't let that stop you from popping off.

There has been so much game-playing on her behalf, ... Suddenly, Texas judges are popping up out of the ether to defend her, and she seems to have a gentleman caller who speaks on her behalf, and on and on.

We had about a 70-30 territorial advantage. But we did too much fiddling and diddling and not enough popping (the ball into the net).

With all the uproar going on, we just haven?t been able to effectively deal with them. Other things keep popping up ? floating to the top, if you will.

The reasons that this could be an indicator of things to come is if it were combined with other techniques as well and it were more aggressively pushed, then it could potentially be something that is used to improve the success of one of these attacks. I wouldn't be surprised if this started popping up as a standard way of doing things.

The reason his name is popping up is he's probably the closest thing out there to John Roberts. And he's got even more of a full record that people on both sides of the aisle can evaluate.

We had a fourth-down play, but I figured we had them back on their heels passing, passing, passing and they wouldn't be expecting the run and it popped open for us, ... Antonio did a great job popping out of the back door.

We might not be popping the champagne bottles yet, ... but we're chilling them already.

We are certainly at the part of the sun's cycle where flares are popping off more frequently and affecting us more frequently.

Boxing is a never-ending story. New fighters keep coming along. Opponents keep popping up. The next superstar is always on the way.

Even on the computer, we always get information popping up to do this, do that and people do it!

As soon as you have one, all those dormant maternal instincts start popping out all over you, like German measles.

Folks (at the FCC) are rubbing their hands as to how wild it could go and at the same time popping aspirins as to how disappointing it could be,

Things are just popping and cracking all over the north part of the county.

The workers were in the hole, ... They heard some popping sounds and they came out. They don't know if they affected the electrical service or if the electrical service went sour for some other reason.

Sorry to say it, but an awful lot of us are not happy, and we're not sure why. We're bored and lonely. Too often we're popping Prozac. We want to interact and be entertained constantly.

Sounded like a 747 jet crashing here in the valley, all the trees popping and snapping and everything. It was just a horrendous sound, and it never quit.

So when I saw his pads getting down and the pads popping and him breaking tackles and him running hard into the sideline and putting his shoulder down getting 4 more, he showed me a ton. I'm excited about the way he played and the toughness he showed and his speed.

As fast as it goes, it sounds like your popping corn.

That was a big at-bat, it really hurt us. I was looking for a pitch to drive. For whatever reason I've been popping up a lot of pitches this year. Hopefully starting tomorrow I'll get some more chances to redeem myself.

That's why you didn't see, for example, the use of amphetamines discussed by sports journalists for decades - because it was something that wasn't in the public awareness. If somebody had started writing about the fact that athletes were popping amphetamines left and right, they would have been in serious trouble, and no one would have talked to them. That would have put their ability to do the rest of their job at risk.

This is an idea that's been popping up around the globe. There's a lot of fee income going to the banks, and the merchants are upset.

They've been popping up a little earlier. I'd say about 10 percent have hatched already, at most. That's just a ballpark figure.

There was some popping out there on defense. That's the first time that's really come through.

There'll always be a level at which communities are popping up and you need to be there. There's always that level of store openings.

They're popping up everywhere. As we speak, someone is thinking about either planning one or building one.

There's a real need to show real fine art. I'm hearing a lot of people interested in seeing that happen. In the next five to 10 years, we'll see many new spaces popping up.

There's a profusion of atrocity sites throughout Kosovo. They are popping up every day.

It's just Joey being Joey. I'm surprised he lasted this long (without popping off). He's the vocal leader of our football team and that's the way he is.

It seems like every game he's been popping one out. They haven't been any cheap home runs either and he's seen quality pitching all year.

It was strange what happened to me; I mean popping out like that before I was even ten.

It's all about popping the champagne. This was our second time doing it. Hopefully, there are two to go.

It may be the most misunderstood shot of all. I play the uphill shot with a square clubface (rather than an open face) and let the toe turn over and release through the ball (rather than hold the face open). That way, the ball will carry toward the target instead of popping up short.

It's not an informal occasion, with the children popping their heads around the corner saying, 'mum, can I join you?' the Queen will send her page with a message to invite them.

Everybody is popping up and they're lowering the prices. They're more of quantity than quality. They get it cheaper, but they do it faster.

The big inning was nice because we had been popping the ball up for two innings. Then we started to get on top of the ball, we scored some runs and everyone started to settle down.

It was a play where I pass it to the right post and they were supposed to, on the opposite side, set a screen for Mike (Jensen). But the play got messed up as I was watching. I was like, 'Oh, wow, I've got to shoot this one,' because no one was popping out and everybody looked a little confused.

I try to read what they do. I knew that Kruger was going to pass it to his big man because his big man was popping out, plus he had like four seconds to shoot. I knew he wasn't going to shoot over (us) so that's the way I read it.

These three-year numbers that are going to be popping up in the media, and in advertisements over the next week or two, are going to be astounding.

On a super, super hot day, you can hear some of these cones popping open. And the people who were here during the fire heard a lot of it. Imagine popcorn -- pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.

Exercise tends to go as popular culture goes. Dance as exercise has probably started popping up in more gyms across the country recently due to the popularity of dancing shows on TV.

The L.A. rap scene is popping again because rappers stopped saying 'West Coast.' Nobody says that anymore. Fans of L.A. music were reaching and saying, 'This is West Coast music,' because nobody else liked it.

In a perfect world, I'd like to start him out in a Minor League game and by the end of the spring get him some 'A' games to get his adrenaline popping a little bit.

Intelligent design is now being adopted by a number of credible scientists. If the Dover school district wins this case, you're going to see intelligent design popping up on school board agendas all over the country.

I noticed Laura (the restaurant owner) had a little bucket on the table. For like a week, I was just popping them here and there.

I remember sitting around with friends and putting together a slideshow, popping chromes into the tray, turning on the stereo and hanging up a sheet in the living room. I loved that immersion with all your senses.

I remember, around age three, peas growing in the back garden. Pinching them from their pods and popping them in the mouth was my first realisation that food came from somewhere other than a shelf.

I love the growth and expansion. What I don't want to see is more trees popping up in memory of someone (at an accident site). It gets dangerous when you try to put city traffic on a country road that amounts to a little more than a goat trail.

But I don't see many of these flat panels popping up for mainstream users.

How did we end the summer ... stuck between a Roberts and a hard place? We've spent months poring over 60,000 pages from the National Archives and reams of personal profiles for clues about how John Roberts would rule on the highest court in land. ... The bottom line is that barring some last minute photo of John Roberts popping out of a cake at a KKK rally smoking crack, he's going to be confirmed. And if he were magically derailed, who would be next? ... John Roberts may turn out to be as far right as People for the American Way says. But he may also be as good as it gets under this administration.

He's an Oakland A's problem. He needs to be concerned about Oakland. I don't even know why I'm talking about (the) guy. Play two or three games in a row first before you start popping off.

If he starts really popping his pitches, then he could be ready. That's what we're hoping for.

I came down here to visit the area.... I saw all the building going on, and I knew it was popping off. What we have enhances the loft home, though people have come from everywhere to visit. But we fit in here.

I could feel that obviously my ears popping ... and then it got hard to breathe, and then, whoosh, all the compression in the plane was lost.

I began asking what I was going to do with the rest of my life, ... This idea of the priesthood kept popping up.