Chops Quotations

Classical music is always a really great way for me to get my chops to where I want them to be.

I learned to cook in self-defense. My wife doesn't know what a kitchen is. In the first month of our marriage, she broiled lamb chops 26 nights in a row. Then I took over. I used to mind her not caring about food, but no more - as long as I can eat what I want.

I would recommend going out for more independent films. You can get bigger roles and really work your acting chops and build a reel.

The pig is not just pork chops and bacon and ham to us. The pig is a co-laborer in this great land-healing ministry.

My dinners at home are startlingly simple. Every night, I stop at the market near my hotel and pick up a steak, lamb chops or some liver, which I broil in the electric oven in my room. I usually eat four or five raw carrots with my meat, and that is all. I must be part rabbit; I never get bored with raw carrots.

When you're watching film and you see other tight ends doing well against them, you lick your chops a little bit.

My baked lemon chicken and pork chops with sauerkraut are popular as is the pies. Every day we bake six to eight pies including cake and brownies.

Given the current state of publishing, I think it helps to have a brand name on the cover of your book. Comedians are proven commodities with built-in audiences. They may not have the writing chops of a Dave Eggers, but they're salacious and funny and self-reflective.

He might be licking his chops right now.

He's a great player. He's an All-American. I am trying not to get too excited because a guy like me who is kind of low on the radar, is licking his chops right now because this is an opportunity to show the world that you can play.

I actually started college as an art major, so I do have a semi-developed visual sense. I just don't have the chops to do it myself anymore. But with Matt, I only have to give him a general concept or whatever, and he takes it over the moon. Whatever he winds up with is always better than I could even dream.

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

I think it's really, really good for me to be on stage once a year. It keeps your chops good. There's nothing else like it.

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.

You know what? Maybe Dr. Atkins was right. Maybe the way to go is to eat pork chops with a big hunk of butter on top. Maybe we have been wrong, and maybe he has been right.

We keep our chops up and inspire each other. That is the best way to keep it up, by playing with people.

The power that an artist can have to move people, I just want to equip myself better with those kind of skills. I see myself as a character actor, not as a leading actor, and in something like ""Time of Your Life,"" I'm being asked to strengthen my chops and take some responsibilities. There's some kind of deepening that needs to be done.

We underestimated what kind of acting chops this guy had, and we now see what he's able to do when he's given the right part. He's taken his considerable acting experience, melded that with his own kind of personality, melded that with the almost mythic history he brings to the part.

So we'll see. We'll let everything fall into place, (and I'll) go out there and bust my chops and get as many as I can.

One chops the wood, the other does the grunting.

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

That's my role. Third-and-1, I'm licking my chops because that is my opportunity to come in and make an impact in the game. So when they called my number, I knew I had to get that yard. I was able to do that. I feel really proud to get those tough yards.

They scored 32 points at basically point-blank range, shots right around the basket. They had some guys that were just licking their chops inside, and they just gave us a whopping in there.

They're probably going to have a whole bunch of people in the box, and it's going to be hard. I'm going to have to earn every yard I get. There's a reason they're (5-0). You can't lick your chops about a team like that.

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 wasn't all spent on practicing, I did do other things! but the classical guitar means a lot to me so I spend many hours building good chops and getting a good program together.

They brought up some special food items like pork chops and chocolate that we definitely appreciated.

I'm sure right now they're licking their chops thinking they're going to be able to run the ball, so the challenge is going to be on our defense to step up and stop the run and make them throw the ball. They like to run it and keep it, similar to what Forney did except out of the one-back set.

In a way, that's always been Yes' history to a large extent! Quite a few occasions when we've had a new band member or change in members, then we've done a new album with new chops and refreshed the musical approach.

Charlie's been here a long time. He's looked good at practice. I know he's licking his chops for this opportunity. That's all he asks for, an opportunity to go out there and play.

He brought the chops right from the beginning, ... What I pushed for was for him to go beyond, in terms of continuing way beyond where he normally would.

You can really get your chops in shape in the resident theatres, and I urge anyone to investigate them and to be willing to go anywhere to pursue the great roles.

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.