Backfiring Quotes

#1. There is still the outside world to contend with. A world of backfiring cars, and their human equivalents.

David Sedaris

#2. We have spent the better part of the last fifty years being inundated by advertising, being told that we will be happier if we get more stuff. But that's been backfiring recently.

Jayni Chase

#3. Contrary to popular belief and hope, people don't usually come running when they hear a scream. That's not how humans work. Humans look at other humans and say, 'Did you hear a scream?' because the first scream might have been you screaming inside your head, or a horse backfiring.

Terry Pratchett

#4. I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

Rachel Nichols

#5. I'm not too fond of changing things into waltzes, but sometimes that works.

Marian McPartland

#6. There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.

A.S.A Harrison

#7. I like excess. And giant M&M's.

Ira Glass

#8. Sharing a burdened heart with another who has the wisdom, strength, and knowledge to carry it, frees us from its weight long enough to focus on solutions

Gayathri Ramprasad

#9. Her grandfather's books [ ... ] opened before Ada, a world whose colours were so dazzling that reality paled in comparison and faded away. Boris Godunov, Satan, Athalia, King Lear: they all spoke words charged with meaning; every syllable was inexpressively precious

Irene Nemirovsky