Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking… — Lucy Grealy
To discover your real questions, simply take a time-out. Stop looking ahead of yourself at where youâ€™re going or backward at where youâ€™ve been. When… — Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
I am exactly where I want to be now. You can't go backward. I'm not going backward. I'm grateful that I'm here, blessed to have… — Sandra Bullock
I start with the joke line and write backward. — Nipsey Russell
I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and hours… — Eleanor Coppola
Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time. — Eleanor Coppola
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you. — Burt Lancaster
I am not an adult, that's my explanation of myself. Except when I am working on a set, I have all the inhibitions and shyness… — Jean Arthur
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling… — David Gilmour
To call it an anticlimax would be an insult not only to climaxes but to prefixes. It's a crummy secret, about one step up the… — Roger Ebert
There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is… — Sherwood Anderson
Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.'… — John C. Maxwell
And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward.… — David Levithan
Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? — Diogenes
If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by… — Francois Coillard
Dreams are a sweet mistake All dreamers must awake.. On then with the dance No backward glance Or my heart will break Never look back… — Stephen Sondheim
There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward. — Erica Jong
And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. — Robert Frost
The mainstream perception that conservatives are close-minded and dogmatic while liberals are open-minded and free-thinking has it almost exactly backward. Liberal dogma is settled: The… — Jonah Goldberg
We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure -… — M. William Phelps

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