Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

Miss Hayes, have you stopped to consider that you might have this all backward? That in fact you are my fantasy? — Shannon Hale
And Harry, with the unerring skill of the Seeker, caught the wand in his free hand as Voldemort fell backward, arms splayed, the slit pupils… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in… — Bohumil Hrabal
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. — Gayle Forman
I rolled my eyes so far into the top of my head I almost fell over backward. — Janet Evanovich
Everything lined up. It has been easy, as if it were meant-" "Meant!" she said, amazed. She spun to face him, which, in the crush,… — Laini Taylor
You had this young man with you for... what, six years?" Halt shrugged. "Near enough," he replied. "And did you ever understand a word he… — John Flanagan
Time never runs backward when I need it to. Not for me, and not for anyone else. — Mira Grant
For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and… — Dean Koontz
dive for dreams or a slogan may topple you (trees are their roots and wind is wind) trust your heart if the seas catch fire… — E E Cummings
In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can… — Ian Mcewan
It is quite true what Philosophy says: that Life must be understood backwards. But that makes one forget the other saying: that it must be… — Soren Kierkegaard
Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them. — Ray Bradbury
I love you. Okay? Want it louder? I LOVE YOU. Spell it out, should I? I ell-oh-vee-ee why-oh-you. Want it backward? You love I. — William Goldman
You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way. — Karen Marie Moning
His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract. — William Shakespeare
Welfare reforms and the whole â€œhappyâ€ exploitation movement are not â€œbaby steps.â€ They are big stepsâ€“in a seriously backward direction. — Gary L. Francione
In the parallel universe the laws of physics are suspended. What goes up does not necessarily come down, a body at rest does not tend… — Susanna Kaysen
We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be. — Erin Morgenstern
Farewell sweet earth and northern sky, for ever blest, since here did lie and here with lissom limbs did run beneath the Moon, beneath the… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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383 authors contributed a total of 439 Backward Quotes, led by these top contributors: