Chipping Quotations

I've just built a studio in my mama's old bedroom, which I thought was fitting; she died last year. We've recorded nine songs recorded in there already; we're sort of just chipping away.

When you start making incremental changes like that with double digits then that starts chipping away at their base. We can't truly call ourselves a majority unless we take back the black vote as the party of Lincoln. We are going to reclaim that.

Until they say we can't make it, we'll keep chipping away, and try to win and hold up our end.

Writing is hard work: it is like doing homework for the rest of your life. You are always chipping away at it.

When I was playing, it was 10 or 12 plays that determined the outcome of a game. Now, because of the balance of talent in the league, it's come down to three or four plays a game. All you're looking for is to be in a position where you have a chance to win at the end. We haven't been able to do that, in a number of cases but we just keep chipping at it, trying to find a way to turn that corner.

When we came off the tour for the last album, we started on this one. We've just been chipping away at it. We're not in that much of a hurry, because when we release a Blur album, that's a three year promotion and touring cycle.

What's neat is it's at the highest level of women's golf and you can learn so much hanging out at the putting green or the chipping area talking with the veterans, from drills to mindset to attitude.

My dad used to make me follow those guys in the city championship. I couldn't believe how good George's putting and chipping were. He used to play in putting contests for money all the time at Harding and Lincoln. It's no coincidence he became such a great putter.

No one wins this, ... It's chipping away at it. I don't think anybody can win it.

I felt pretty good about the round. I thought my chipping and putting were great and it was a good round. I just need to keep playing my game. I thought my course management was good, and I think the key to this course is course management, so I am going to keep that as my strategy.

I got a new supervisor. He's a politically correct, bleeding heart liberal. I believe in what I'm doing. I got to stand up for what I believe in and I don't think I'm doing a thing wrong. Of course I don't want to lose my job, but I can't back down from something I believe in. Like I say, they're just chipping away at our rights and freedoms.

He was flying traps at 320 yards, chipping on to the greens and generally putting us under a lot of pressure.

I suspect they concluded that their opening salvo needed to start chipping away at her aura of invincibility in hope that gives an opening with the average voter to define himself.

Our chipping and putting is improving, but we're still having some three-shot greens. The greens were a little slick, but overall the course is in good shape.

Our overall defensive play and goaltending have been excellent through six games. What I like is that we have different people every night who are chipping in. They've kept us competitive.

Patel has been keeping well and also chipping in with the bat in recent domestic matches so we decided to pick him.

Pat chased this guy down and ended up chipping his teeth.

We never thought we were going to lose this game. We kept chipping away, chipping away, plugging away. We showed them tonight what we could do. Hopefully we showed our critics.

That was one of the bright spots for us. We kept chipping at them. We have to play well for longer stretches. With only one starter returning, we're still trying to get acclimated to varsity play.

We punched it out pretty quick with a nice run. Give Simon Kenton credit though, they just kept chipping away at us.

We got away from the little things. Chipping when you're supposed to, getting to center ice, we don't get it in deep like we're supposed to. The little things that good teams do, we didn't do.

We played really good defense the whole game. In the fourth quarter they kept chipping away, we just had to buckle down.

We can still make a big run. We can steal games because the All-Star break is coming up. We just have to keep chipping away and fighting for that eighth spot, and I really think we can make it.

We need everyone playing very well, we need everyone chipping in something and making a contribution for us to win games like that.

We made a vast improvement in our game plan. We were focused. We were ready to play. We're chipping away at this.

We know teams are going to try to take away Kristen and Julie on the inside, and we've talked that someone has to step up and knock those shots down. They've done a great job with that. Everybody's been chipping in.

You dig yourself a hole and then you have to dig yourself out. We cracked back. We were down by 12, we were down by 13, we were chipping away. A good team makes you do something different with the ball, and they did.

We're not trying to do anything fancy. We're just chipping away.

When I got out and I was sat up in the dressing-room I didn't know what to do with myself. I was really sick at one stage ... and I got quite emotional at the end when Ashley knocked the winning runs off. I never thought we'd lost it because the partnerships we needed were very small, but there's always that devil on your shoulder just chipping away at you. It was a massive release when we got over the line.

We're just chipping away at their habitat and at the population itself and this is just one more sign of what we're doing.

We came out and played our game. We kept chipping away and finally got it.

When we've been successful, we've had everyone chipping in, and that was the case tonight. It's big for us to get everyone chipping in.

There he was, O.J. Simpson, just chipping golf balls in his front yard.

We knew as long as we could stay within single digits we would be OK and we just kept chipping away.

We have to do all the things you do, whether it be change up the cadence, whether it be chipping guys, whether it be doubling. They do a good job of moving inside-outside to keep you from getting a good double-team on them. They'll bring the linebacker with the end to that side. So at times you just absolutely have to single block them.

You don't hear any roars, do you? And I'm not sure there's going to be charges like we used to have out here when guys get on a roll. I'm not sure that's going to happen - unless somebody gets lucky and starts chipping them in.

Bond markets seem to have decided that perhaps there is a bit too much growth, not so much that they're fearful of a big break up in inflation ... but that central banks are going to keep chipping away at the foundations of cheap money.

Before, I was just chipping (the puck) in and trying to chase it down myself. Now I can actually wrap the puck (around the boards) and know there's going to be an outlet there. I know where the puck is going after I wrap it. Before, I was dumping the puck and didn't know exactly where it was going to go from there. Now we're all on the same page, and I know exactly where it's going to go.

Everybody is chipping in and we're playing very well at this point in time as a team. That's the most important thing. To win consistently in this league, you need to play as a team and that's the way we've been doing it the last little bit.

At that point it looked like it might be slipping away and we just kept chipping away one week at a time. Before you know it, we were on a real good run down the stretch.

At the moment I have to stay off my feet as much as possible but hopefully I'll be fit enough to do a bit of chipping and putting soon.

First, they'd have to survive the chipping process. Then they'd have to survive the heat of those big piles of mulch. Did you ever see a front-loader move a big pile of mulch and see the steam from the heat come off it? And then they'd have to survive being stuffed into a plastic bag. No way.

Proponents of this bill are not just chipping away at the right to choose, they are taking a jackhammer to it.

Ragan pitched a great game. She threw one bad pitch and they hit it out but she was in control the whole way. I thought we did a nice job of executing also. We got some runners on, we moved them over and we drove them in. We just kept chipping away and we had some opportunities to break that one open, we just didn't get the hits at the right time.

The more I photographed Muslim women, the more I was able to metaphorically strip away the burqas and hijabs, and start chipping away at the profound misconceptions that existed in other parts of the world about these women and their culture.

Any chipping away at any already weak ordinance is very, very sad and unfortunate for the community and for the patrons and the people who work in those places.

You've got to see that this Justice Department keeps chipping away at our rights. The American people are so ill-informed that that they don't realize what's going on. And they won't until it's too late.

You see great players making great plays, but you'll see other guys chipping in and becoming known as consummate playoff players and that's better than anything. There's nothing better than that pressure of every play.

You never know with a new team how they're going to respond to a situation like that. Honestly, I think every coach, every fan and everyone on the team wondered what was going to happen. They came right back out and played hard. They started chipping way at the lead. To come back and tie it up and force extra innings, I think that just bodes well for us.

They've been working hard on their games this year. I had them doing a lot of short-game practice. We practiced on the par 3 course, a lot of chipping and putting, really concentrating on the short game, trying to eliminate some strokes. Everybody has cut three or four strokes off their rounds this year. We'll keep doing the same things we've been doing all year and hopefully it'll work out for us.

They started chipping away. There were some things going on (minor altercations in the crowd and hallways) and we kind of lost our concentration. You've got to give them credit. They didn't give up. From the middle of the third quarter on, they outscored us.

They start chipping right after Christmas. If there's only a few trees there, it's because the parks department keeps it clean.

Amazingly all I could think of was the bride biting down on the turkey and chipping a tooth or something, ... I tried to think on the spot and told him, 'When the turkey's done, get a pretty little ribbon, tie the ring on the drumstick and present it to your bride-to-be.'

You don't want a repeat of what happened last year. It's still early in the year to call it, but every weekend it's down is chipping away at the advantage we had early on this year.

There was no real breakthrough to the positive side. Each one of these little nicks has been chipping away at investor confidence.

The report illustrates the fact that housing is not defying gravity and is not likely to do so this year. We're going to see chipping away of housing.

It's just so much easier not to sleep now. There are things to do all the time -- clubs open, you could e-mail, or bank all night long. There's more competing activity chipping away at sleep.

It's facing more and more competition each day and that's going to keep chipping away at profits. It's an ugly position to be in if you're trying to sell half the company.

It was good already, and IBM keep chipping away at making it easier to use - so that lowers management costs.

I try not to view myself as a freshman anymore. I've already played (27) games. Back in South Dakota, we only played 18. I feel like I've already been through a whole season, so I have to put that freshman business behind me and just play. ... We're just a couple young guys helping, chipping in to get those wins.

It took us 59 minutes and 54 seconds to win this one. We just kept playing, kept grinding, and kept chipping away at the score. It was a big win and one that really builds character.

It takes time to start where I started and try to work off all the flab. You have to give something up, and to me it was always the kind of thing that, 'Well, I can't do it because I've got to work on my game. I've got to work on my chipping, work on my driving. I've got to do something with my game.' I said, 'You know what, it's not going to do me any good at all if I can't walk the golf course because my knees hurt so bad.' I'll give up three hours a day of chipping or three hours on the range to make it so my knees don't hurt.

The walls of the Franciscan Church of the Assumption of the Holy Virgin Mary were ruined stucco chipping away from the brick underneath, with ghostly frescoes, concrete-filled niches, and one complete, vivid crucifix painted over the altar.

They beat us soundly. I was very pleased with our effort in the second half. We kept chipping away and played well late in the game when we they could have bagged it.

They weren't going to let the season slip away. They kept chipping away, they built some momentum, and before you know it, we were on a real good run down the stretch.

They (Hilbert and Munro) played well. Especially early, Adam made some big saves and it was nice to see Andy get a couple of goals. He's worked hard. Anytime you can get guys like that chipping in goals it helps, when you can score by committee.

The Sentence to Service workers transport the trees to the chipping site.

As a coach, I can really appreciate having a group of kids like this. There are a lot of kids out there who are obsessed by distance, and all they want to do is pound their drivers. Our kids aren't like that. They understand the game. They get it. They realize that the goal is to get the ball in the hole, and the best way to do that is to practice your iron shots, your wedges, your chipping and your putting. If you develop those skills to a high degree, you're going to beat the bombers most of the time.

The kids never gave up. They kept chipping away at the score. I told them 'We didn't have to get them back right away'. Angie coming in relief helped a lot and she did a great job.

Chipping was the better part of our game. We've been working on our short game and now that is coming around it seems we have to work on the long game. Hopefully it comes together on Monday (for regional).

Chipping was going well for pretty much everyone (and) most are getting off the tee pretty well.

Chipping and putting is what saved me. I only hit six greens in regulation.

You understand that things can't just happen overnight. They laid out a plan and explained it to us and just said, 'Here is what we want to do, here is where we need to get better,' and we have been chipping away at it ever since.