Best 112 quotes in «comeback quotes» category

What is a whore?" Unsurprisingly, that hadn't been one of the words we had shared over the last span of days. For half a moment I considered lying, but there was no way I could manage it. "He says your mother is a person men pay money to have sex with." Tempi turned back to the mercenary and nodded graciously. "You are very kind. I thank you.

What do you mean by that?” Her frustration got the best of her. “You’re so used to feeling superior that you’ve forgotten there are people who might know something you don’t.” One of his big, competent hands landed on the blade of his hip. “What’s your deal anyway? Do you feel like such a failure that you need to attack anybody who’s successful?” “No. Maybe. I don’t know. Fuck you.

...unfortunately, I am incapable of thinking up perfectly biting, split-second retorts, in any language. The French even have a word for this: l'esprit de l'escalier; staircase wit, something you only think of on the way out.

When a 'setback' brings a 'comeback,' that's grace in action!

You can tell all Namorn this is what happens when I am vexed," she informed him softly. "Little *bitch*," he snapped. Sandry looked him over soberly. "If you had understood that earlier, we could have avoided this unpleasantness," she replied.

When this is done, Jerkface, I will hold your tarnished and melted pin up as my trophy as your smoldering ship marks your pyre, and the final resting place of your crushed and broken corpse!" - Spensa, pg. 64

You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.

You mustn't mind so much. It's all in your head." "Well, I live in my head.

A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.

A comeback is possible so let's hope it's a good day for us. Arsenal is a very fast team but we can get through.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

A setback only paves the way for a comeback.

A great champion deals with setback with a comeback.

A quick comeback is usually meant as license to be mean.

A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback.

But I would never insult the people that love this music and I would never insult the blessing of music in my life and I would never insult myself by playing uninspired music.

But it is possible that, in the days ahead, these years we have lived through may eventually be thought of simply as a period of disturbance and regression

Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out.

Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.

Comeback is a good word, man.

Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.

Every setback has a major comeback.

Every setback is a setup for a comeback!

Believers believe in resurrection, atheists only in comebacks.

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.

Every time I show up to do something here it's considered a comeback. If I came into town and they didn't call it that, I'd be disappointed.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap

Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.

If you believe in journalism, you don't insult good journalists.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!

I feel I should warn you, I’m in a really bad mood. (Syn) You’ll be in a worse mood when we haul you in dead! (a Partini) ‘Syn grimaced in pain at a comment so stupid it didn’t even rate a snotty comeback.’ (Syn)

If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.

I like the saying the every setback is a setup for a comeback. Also, "Todos los tigres son iguales" which means all tigers are the same. A fellow reporter once told me that when I was on assignment in Haiti working around the clock.

I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.

In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Insults are the business of the court.

I think, over the last couple of years, the written word has made a comeback on the Internet. For example, I'm seeing more long-form narrative experiments there. The overall noise level, however, continues to increase. Do we really need TV screens to watch when we pump gas? Really?

I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

I want to be a writer someday.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.