Never Live It Down/Quotes

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


"Sheesh. Forget a woman's birthday four or five times and you hear about it forever."
Roger Fox, FoxTrot
Ever since you called me a 'freaky fish guy', I haven't been able to escape it! All over the world people see me and shout, "Hey, it's that freaky fish guy! Wanna throw a harpoon at us, Freaky Fish Guy?". And all because I ONCE threw a harpoon at somebody. Does that mean that I DESERVE being labelled a 'Freaky Fish Guy'!?...It's not like I make a habit out of it.
"If a man builds a thousand bridges and sucks one dick, they don't call him a bridge-builder -- they call him a cocksucker."
Vince Boudreau, Play it to the Bone

Danny: And I always confuse Monet and Manet. Now which one married his mistress?
Tess: Monet.
Danny: Right, and then Manet had syphilis.

Tess: They also painted occasionally.
Okay okay, geez, look, I kill a guy one time and now I'm never gonna live it down for the rest of my life, am I?
Doctor Insano, The Spoony Experiment
I'd been a Serial Killer for four years, but they'd never given me a nickname. Then...you bite one guy on the arse, and suddenly you're The Buttmuncher.
Frankie Boyle doing "Unlikely Lines in a Thriller Movie", Mock the Week
"Last time I was here, I said I was a (referring to his penis) "Magnum". Now people are always screaming 'Magnum' at me...I really shouldn't have said it."
Gackt, a Japanese musician, retells a story he will never live down.
"Why do you always faint around Naruto?"
Kiba to Hinata, Naruto
If Al Gore invented The Internet, I invented spell check.
Dan Quayle, inventing Gore's invention of the internet
"You are remembered for the rules you break."
The reader also knows that everyone poos. But if the first thing a character does is poo in front of the reader, the reader will think of him as the Pooing Character forevermore.
"Suge [Knight] lost focus of the business, and who he is. He could've been a lot of things, but he chose not to."
Cash Jones, a.k.a. Wack 100, The Endless Fall of Suge Knight