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Quotes About Banter

How about this?" the Drifter said. "We'll have an insult battle.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You know, Ham," Breeze noted. "The only funny thing about your jokes is how often they lack any humor whatsoever." "You're only saying that because they usually involve you in the punch line." Breeze rolled his eyes.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You're the only person I know that I can cheer up by promising to kill him." "You didn't promise to kill me," Wayne said, pulling on his socks. "You promised to have killed me. That there be the present perfect tense." "Your grasp of the language is startling," Wax said, "considering how you so frequently brutalize it." "Ain't nobody what knows the cow better than the butcher, Wax.
~ Brandon Sanderson
She inspected him lying on the deck, and he raised a fist in a gesture of solidarity. "Radiant the Lopen," Rysn said, ". . . um, what do you call a Thaylen who can't walk?" "Not sure, gancha." "Names. From afar." He grinned widely. "Of course," Rysn added. "I'd never stand for that sort of thing." The Lopen about died from laughing. He called to his cousin again, translating the jokes. This time Huio chuckled.
~ Brandon Sanderson
believe you stray into sarcasm." "Funny. I thought I'd run straight into it, screaming at the top of my lungs.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Ranette said a lot of mean things, but they weren't ... well, they weren't actually mean. He joked, and she joked. And sure, sometimes there was an edge of truth to it, but that's what friends was about. Making you look a little silly when you were together, so that you didn't look really stupid when you were apart.
~ Brandon Sanderson
You're starting to sound a lot like my mother.' 'Captivating?' Syl said. 'Amazing, witty, meaningful?' 'Repetitive.' 'Captivating?' Syl said. 'Amazing, witty, meaningful?' 'Very funny.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I did get the nickname 'craptain' from the Yorkshire dressing room. A bit of banter which I thought was quite funny.
~ Joe Root
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
~ Emeril Lagasse
Corey Graves - he's thrown jabs at me; I've thrown jabs back, you know? And you know, the thing is, Corey Graves, of course, yeah, he's a college educated young man. His vernacular is a little different than mine.
~ Booker T
I trash talk all the time.
~ Elana Meyers
I love when people talk trash.
~ Joel Embiid
Yeah, I probably talk a little bit of trash.
~ Jason Witten
Me and Kobe are always going to talk trash and get into it. But when he talks trash to everybody else, some people tend to shy away.
~ Nick Young
I just play the game. I'm used to trash talking.
~ Jamal Murray
I definitely can shoot. I definitely like to talk trash, too.
~ Tyler Herro
I enjoy talking trash.
~ Keith Thurman
I would always talk trash to my brother and my cousin. I would tell them, 'I'm already better than you!'
~ Jalen Ramsey
One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.
~ J. J. Abrams
You know, I'm Australian, and we have got the worst sense of humor. We are cruel to each other.
~ Steve Irwin
You crack me up, little buddy.
~ Steve Purcell
Giving someone shit, Rodney knew was a sign of love in Catholic families. And the same held true for Rodney and his friends. But he wished it weren't Keith's default setting, his auto-reply to everything.
~ Steve Rushin
I'm not great at small talk.
~ Courteney Cox
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
~ James Boswell