Comeback Quotes - Page 5

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

  Sam Sheppard

  After Hours, Insult, My Family

  Sam Sheppard (1966). “Endure and conquer”

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• We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

  Cheech Marin

  Return, Six, Needs

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• When inspiration does not come, I go for a walk, go to the movie, talk to a friend, let go... The muse is bound to return again, especially if I turn my back!

  Judy Collins

  Letting Go, Inspiration, Return

  "Wise Highs: How to Thrill, Chill, & Get Away from It All Without Alcohol or Other Drugs" by Alex J. Packer, (p. 213), 2006.

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• So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.

  Norman McLaren

  People, Age, Return

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• My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

  Rick Derringer

  Writing, Wife, Helping

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• It is not what we choose that is important; it is the reason we choose it.

  Caroline Myss

  Important, Reason

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• I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Block, Writing, People

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• I never thought of that before! It's my opinion that you never think at all.

  Lewis Carroll

  Thinking, Opinion

  Lewis Carroll “Alice in Wonderland”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I made a little money. And like the Bible says, I was enjoying the fruits of my labor. This is my comeback. This is me doing what I love to do.

  Mr. T

  Love, Littles, Fruit

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• I feel blessed to have as many comebacks as I can.

  Paula Abdul

  Blessed, Feels, I Can

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• Hey, look your girlfriend is saying something. Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Insulted Him, Looks

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• The most effective comeback to an insult is silence.

  Russell Lynes

  Wise, Silence, Insult

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• I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Mean, Thinking, Millions

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• Feminism died in 1998 when Hillary allowed henchlings and Democrats to demonize Monica as an unbalanced stalker, and when Gloria Steinem defended Mr. Clinton against Kathleen Willey and Paula Jones by saying he had merely made clumsy passes, then accepted rejection, so there was no sexual harassment involved. As to his dallying with an emotionally immature 21-year-old, Ms. Steinem noted, 'Welcome sexual behavior is about as relevant to sexual harassment as borrowing a car is to stealing one.' Surely what's good for the Comeback Kid is good for the Terminator.

  Maureen Dowd

  Kids, Years, Car

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• When you combine something to say with the skill to say it properly, then you've got a good writer.

  Theodore Sturgeon

  Skills, Good Writers

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• You kind of never leave Arsenal. How many comebacks do you make? At one point it will turn out to be a bad move. We all love the first Rocky but I'm not too sure about the last one.

  Thierry Henry

  Moving, Lasts, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Sports, Would Be, Clean

  "LeMond: Armstrong ‘manipulated the cancer community’". CNN Interview, www.velonews.com. October 22, 2013.

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• 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

  Irving Stone

  Mind, Lap, Soup

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• No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Long, Novel

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• That's not writing, that's typing

  Truman Capote

  Art, Writing, Entertainment

  Lawrence Grobel, Truman Capote (1985). “Conversations with Capote”, E P Dutton

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• 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

  Reading, Giving, Kind

  Draft of a preface in "Notebook 16". "The Collected Works of J.M. Synge", Volume 1. Introduction, 1962.

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• I want to be a writer someday.

  Andrea Barber

  Want, Someday

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• We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.

  Paddy Ashdown

  War, Home, Return

  "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• The talent of a true writer and poet is in the ear.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Ears, Talent, Poet

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• An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

  Iain Sinclair

  Travel, Journey, Doubt

  Iain Sinclair (2004). “Downriver, or, The vessels of wrath: a narrative in twelve tales”, Penguin Books Ltd

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