Smacks Quotations

I think it's bad karma when you start talking down your own currency; it smacks of desperation. If this turns into a rout, that will prove that classic adage -- be careful what you wish for.

Most of the bands that have regrouped or reformed didn't ring true for me. It smacks of cashing in. We wanted to become a band again and make a new record. It's unfair to fans and musicians to just release reissues.

We're all resigned to the fact that anybody in this league can beat anybody. There's never an off night. There's never a night where you can just relax. And every time you think you can, as we learned, somebody smacks you.

To offer them money in a situation where it could be just feeding their habit -- it really smacks of coercion.

This smacks of protectionism and is completely out of line with the overall trend of free trade represented by the (World Trade Organization) Doha Round.

This smacks of Gestapo. ... This outstrips McCarthyism. ...Forget chilling effect, this is deep freeze.

Fernando has a particular shooting style, ... which you might call guerrilla or documentary. He wants to avoid anything that smacks of a camera setup. It's as if the street informs the camera.

As a general proposition, anything that smacks of manipulating studies or data is a potential bombshell. It's the rare case where a cover-up is of no concern to a jury. The implications range from only somewhat harmful to potentially devastating.

This is going to be a huge issue. This smacks of abuse of power.

This is not a proposal but an ultimatum that smacks of arrogance of the minority in parliament.

This certainly smacks of cronyism. The most outstanding characteristic of this appointee seems to be her long association with the president.

This certainly smacks of cronyism, ... The most outstanding characteristic of this appointee seems to be her long association with the president.

There seems to be no public policy purpose for the zoning that is there ... This whole thing just smacks of special interest politics.

It once again smacks of it being far easier and cheaper to sack British workers. We are not prepared to be treated unfairly or disproportionately with other workers across Europe.

For a city or person to claim a right of ?exclusivity? smacks of ?elitism? to me. I refuse to believe a surf icon of the past or any city official for that matter, can truly define a magical culture.

It's one thing to support the Wright Amendment. It's another thing to support shutting down your home-district airport. What about the people who work at Dallas Love? What about the people who travel from Dallas Love? What about the companies that operate out of Dallas Love? Her decision smacks of heavy-handed government at its absolute worst.

It smacks of unfairness. School board members don't come into the hearing with a clean and open mind. Their bias is to support the superintendent. School boards hire superintendents, and they tend to want to support the guy they brought in.

It smacks of selling access and influence to well-heeled donors.

It smacks of financial eavesdropping. It's not our role -- we're a service provider to small businesses. This proposal would put the credit card banks in a very strange position.

It sounds mercenary and it smacks of rats leaving the sinking ship, ... But get real, when everyone is bailing out, you don't want to be the last man standing.

Any time you have anything that smacks of scandal, it hurts all of us,

Anytime you have anything that even smacks of scandal, I think it hurts all of us,

I just believe it's wrong. Do it after the May election; otherwise it smacks of campaigning.

In Germany, they have great difficulty with anything that smacks of cultism or messianic leadership. You can't talk about leadership in its charismatic forms.

For someone to dictate to us that after 48 hours, we can no longer use this footage without permission, smacks a little bit of censorship number one. And number two, it's just, basically, unfair.

The county is pursuing its own reckless water policy and refuses to sit down with the town. They continue to isolate us. That smacks of some power control county issue.

How earthy old people become -moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.