Backwards Quotes
Dreams are real. This is unreal. This world is unreal. Everybody has it backwards. This is the dream. This is an insubstantial pageant. Nothing here lasts - that is how you know it's the dream.
Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.
Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards.
There is no difference in quality between a life lived forward and a life lived backwards, she thinks. She had come to love this backward life. It was, after all, the only life she had.
![Backwards Quotes: "[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything."](https://www.quoteslyfe.com/images/collection3/quotations613/Lincoln-in-the-Bardo-is-not-a-613240.jpg)
[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.
It's a different world we're going into but it's all based on the Internet. It's all based on these connections. If you start limiting the connections, you're going backwards as a society.
There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.
It is time for us to say no, we are not going to backwards, we're going forward into a brighter future.
I don't know whether the future or 2018 exists or not, but if it exists, I'm offering a show to a museum in Australia titled "Time Reversed." Time is going backwards.
The truth is, I just don't have that much time to see movies. So if I get two hours where I can actually see a film, I don't want to go backwards, I want to go forwards.
It seemed to take Sirius an age to fall: his body curved in a graceful arc as he sank backwards through the ragged veil hanging from the arch.
It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.
I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.
Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.
I worry that's what people are going to think about me if they kind of go backwards. But if that didn't happen to you, I'll feel better.
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
I've watched Clueless as many times as humanly possible. Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.
You seem to think you have a choice," Cam said. "But you have it backwards. Love chooses you. The shadow moves as the sun commands.
Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.
Far less wealthy industrialized countries have committed to end child poverty, while the United States is sliding backwards. We can do better. We must demand that our leaders do better.
As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards.
Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.
I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.
Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!
We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.
We mapped out the whole movie, and then worked backwards from that to do these shows. It might not be a movie. It might be something else.
You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.
See the Congress' track record. It has taken the nation backwards. They keep talking about Rights. The Nation is tired of your Acts, the Nation needs action.
I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.
Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.
I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.
They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.
There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards.
I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."