Comeback famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.
-- Alan King -
I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.
-- Alonzo Mourning -
Don't say Aretha is making a comeback, because I've never been away!
-- Aretha Franklin -
Jackie considered his resurrection, the world's best return performance.
-- Audrey Meadows -
I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
-- Billie Holiday -
I'm never going to be content with a comeback when you end up losing ... You can't just accept being in a game that's close and end up losing it. It's just not okay.
-- Charlie Weis -
Ultimately, there is no compromise. Westerners will either retain their civilization, including the right to insult and blaspheme, or not.
-- Daniel Pipes -
A great champion deals with setback with a comeback,
-- Donna de Varona -
Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.
-- Edouard Manet -
A setback only paves the way for a comeback.
-- Evander Holyfield -
We criticize, copy, patronize, idolize and insult but we never doubt that the U.S. has a unique position in the history of human hopes.
-- Ferdinand Mount -
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
-- Greg Lake -
If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud.
-- Greg LeMond -
Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
-- Haim Ginott -
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.
-- Jerry Pournelle -
You only think of the best comeback when you leave.
-- Jimmy Fallon -
You may be in a tough time but that setback is simply a setup for a greater comeback.
-- Joel Osteen -
Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.
-- John Boehner -
No, you're either born a writer, a storyteller, or you're not.
-- John Milius -
I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
-- John Millington Synge -
At 50 you now have realized ?Getting old isn't fair? And that it's hard to make a comeback ?When you haven't gone anywhere
-- John Walter Bratton -
I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.
-- Johnny Bench -
The stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
-- Leif Garrett -
I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.
-- Lewis Carroll -
An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
The rich are always advising the poor, but the poor seldom return the compliment.
-- Lord Chesterfield -
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.
-- Manuel Pellegrini -
One of the greatest things about playing a villain is people wondering when hes going to make his comeback.
-- Michael McMillian -
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
-- Octavia Butler -
The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?
-- Paddy Ashdown -
I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
-- Pam Grier -
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.
-- Paul Prudhomme -
I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.
-- Paula Abdul -
I'm trying to make all the characters change and grow, or regress.
-- R. A. Salvatore -
Well, I can throw a mean comeback, so there's that. I will crush them on wit.
-- Rachel Caine -
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
-- Rachel Griffiths -
The head writer loves that my character is a boor.
-- Rob Corddry -
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.
-- Russell Lynes -
Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
-- Sam Sheppard -
I'm a comeback waiting to happen. No one deserves it more than I do.
-- Sean Young -
We are equally glad and surprised at Winston's return to office. It shows that he was built for success that he should have declined to withdraw and sulk over a superficial failure.
-- Shane Leslie -
A comeback in gymnastics is almost impossible in itself.
-- Shawn Johnson -
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.
-- Sheena Easton -
A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.
-- Steve Guttenberg -
Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me.
-- Steven Adler -
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.
-- Tanith Lee -
My relatives used to laugh when I talked of being a writer.
-- Taylor Caldwell -
And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.
-- Taylor Dane -
When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.
-- Theodore Sturgeon -
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
-- W. Somerset Maugham -
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.
-- Walter Lippmann -
This pilot, by far, was the best I ever read - and I hope that insults every other pilot I worked on.
-- Will Arnett -
I won't insult your intelligence by suggesting that you really believe what you just said.
-- William F. Buckley, Jr. -
What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.
-- Chelsea Krost -
A quick comeback is usually meant as license to be mean.
-- Steven Petrow -
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.
-- Tom Llamas -
Now I'm making a comeback into the industry. Everyone is receiving me with open arms.
-- Tony Sunshine -
A setback is nothing but a setup for a comeback.
-- Dennis Kimbro -
If you have a setback, Don’t take a step back- Get ready for a comeback!
-- Tim Storey
