Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird. — Elsa Maxwell
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. — Paul McCartney
Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it. — Marshall McLuhan
Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. — Larry McMurtry
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of… — H. L. Mencken
If I see an ending, I can work backward. — Arthur Miller
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history… — Grandma Moses
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable… — Henri Nouwen
Today we take it for granted that war happens in smaller, poorer and more backward countries. — Steven Pinker
I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward. — Iggy Pop
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the… — Rihanna
The historian is a prophet looking backward. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us… — Patrick Stewart
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. — Taylor Swift
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. — James Thurber
There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or… — Charles E. Wilson
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. — Tom Wolfe
The reason why Apple computers have worked so well over time is that, unlike Microsoft, they don't bend over backward to be compatible with every… — Douglas Rushkoff
You never come back, not all the way. Always there is an odd distance between you and the people you love and the people you… — Marya Hornbacher
In the water I saw my father's face, and that face saw the face of its father, and so on, and so on, reflecting backward… — Jonathan Safran Foer

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