Backwards Quotes

I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.

The grand thing is to be able to reason backwards.

I have learned that you're not perfect, and that sometimes the one you love can burn you. But it's just the fool that's looking backwards: a bitter heart turns the love we made to ashes.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

We cannot stand still or slip backwards. We must go forward now together.

At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.

Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

There is a period in life when we go backwards as we advance.

I've always thought you have to live life looking forwards, not backwards. I've had no interest at all in who my ancestors are.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted.

I'll find places to grab as I walk and talk, sometimes even walking backwards because I have more control that way. People have no idea that I'm doing this.

The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

Only a fool walks into the future backwards.

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

American officials have bent over backwards to show how sensitive they are to Muslim culture. It didn't seem very effective. They seem to be worried about winning the respect of other people.

Revolutions never go backwards.

To have religion upon authority, and not upon conviction, is like a finger-watch, to be set forwards or backwards, as he pleases that has it in keeping.

Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.

Someday this upside-down world will be turned right side up. Nothing in all eternity will turn it back again. If we are wise, we will use our brief lives on earth positioning ourselves for the turn.

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

Everyone now claims to be a moderniser and it's obvious, really. I mean, no one now says 'We need to go backwards... to the days of Lord Salisbury'.

Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror.

It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.

The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever. Some seem to.

The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

There must not be a canon of orthodoxy where art is judged and measured. The culture cannot move forward with our heads turned backwards.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

They throw their clubs backwards, and that's wrong. You should always throw a club ahead of you so that you don't have to walk any extra distance to get it.

Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'

After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. In other words, you can't go backwards and regain your ignorance, you have to move forward.

One should look forward rather than backwards.

The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

I can no longer face life, so I've decided to go through the rest of it backwards.

If you walk backwards, you'll find out you can go forwards and people won't know if you're coming or going.

Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'.