Best 112 quotes in «comeback quotes» category

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

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

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 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?

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Insults are the business of the court.

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.

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

It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

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

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

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

Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.

Jace slammed his hand down on the stele. “Clary-“ “She said she doesn’t want it,” said Simon. “Ha-ha.” “Ha-ha?” Jace looked incredulous. “That’s your comeback?

I want to be a writer someday.

My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.

Looking back at all the people I have insulted, I am mildly surprised that I am still allowed to exist.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Remember that nurturing yourself is as important (if not more so) as nurturing others.

One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when he's going to make his comeback.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

Now I'm making a comeback into the industry. Everyone is receiving me with open arms.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day

That's the greatest comeback since Lazarus.

That's not writing, that's typing

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

The bad part about being recognized is that when I walk into a restaurant and sit down, I've got to eat everything on the plate, whether it's good or bad. People would take it as an insult if I did otherwise.

The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

The name Kylie can be used for Scrabble, as it is an aboriginal word for boomerang. Which is why Ms Minogue is so good at comebacks.

The private citizen, beset by partisan appeals for the loan of his Public Opinion, will soon see, perhaps, that these appeals are not a compliment to his intelligence, but an imposition on his good nature and an insult to his sense of evidence.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.

The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.

The vanity of men, a constant insult to women, is also the ground for the implicit feminine claim of superior sensitivity and morality.

This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.

The writer works in a lonely way.

The selection rules are the same for everybody. I am trying to make a comeback just like some other players who got dropped after the Pakistan tour. I hope my time will come.

To admit you want to have a comeback means you have to admit you weren't what you were supposed to be. You dropped below your own standard.

To say 'we' and mean 'I' is one of the most recondite insults.

Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.