I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75
You only think of the best comeback when you leave.
Discrimination against Jews can be read in Thomas Aquinas, and insults against Jews in Martin Luther.
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.
Oppression is more easily endured than insult.
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.
Well, any good comeback needs some true believers.
I had to develop the mentality and stay positive about making my comeback.
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?
A career is a series of ups and downs, of comebacks.
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.
No. . . a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
Each of us carries within himself a collection of instant insults.
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.
I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.
Whatever insults my state insults me.
I made up my mind that I was going to be just like Elvis. It never occurred to me that Elvis was a man. I just wanted to be him. He had a huge impact on me, right down to that black leather jumpsuit he wore on the 68 Comeback Special.
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
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.