I was working 20 hours a day as county leader and Finance Committee chairman". Always outspoken, a quick-witted man who did not hesitate to poke fun at himself, Mr. Troy gave an unusual two-hour lecture to law students in a course on "Corruption and Integrity in Government" at Pace University in New York in 1988.
Schroeder had won the US title at Forest Hills in 1942 before having his sporting career interrupted by service in the US navy, when, appropriately for a quick-witted man of daring and courage, he served in destroyers and flew carrier-borne fighters.
A rangy, quick-witted man with a quizzical air, he scoffed at the suggestion that serious times demand self-seriousness.
Manley Caldwell Butler, a gangly, quick-witted man, was born in Roanoke, Va., on June 2 , 1925
A charismatic and quick-witted man who sprinkles self-deprecating jokes and movie references into interviews and speeches, Mr. Bharara arrived at the United States attorney's office in August 2009.
By 1958, a far less quick-witted man could have read the writing on the wall: the British film industry, which had given McCallum and Withers a nice house alongside a golf course at Denham, Buckinghamshire, and the stimulus of working on more than one film at a time, was being killed off by TV.
He's a highly intelligent and quick-witted man, verbally and in the ring.
He was best known for his "The Stainless Steel Rat" series, starring the free-spirited antihero Slippery Jim DiGriz, a quick-witted con man who travels the universe swindling humans, aliens and robots alike.
"Only write about quick-witted men and resourceful girls whose reactions are like greased lightning".
Despite his notoriety for, I quote, "having a voice like the bottom of an ashtray", for being "the prince of darkness", for being famed for his lugubriousness, he is one of the most quick-witted men, and he is generous with his humour.
He is now a billionaire, and in 2010 was portrayed as a quick-witted lady's man by Justin Timberlake in David Fincher's Facebook movie The Social Network.
