Backwards Quotes

483 quotes by 411 authors

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn… — Roberto Benigni
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. — Aneurin Bevan
There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or determine what your… — Jeff Bezos
I was feeling real good and real manly. Until a real cowboy walked by and told me I had my hat on backwards. So much… — Michael Biehn
People always joke that 'dog' spells 'god' backwards. They should consider that it might be the higher power coming down to see just how well… — Linda Blair
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. — Elizabeth Bowen
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. — Charlotte Bronte
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards,… — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas. — David Byrne
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. — Lewis Carroll
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. — Winston Churchill
I walk slowly, but never backwards. — Abraham Lincoln
I did everything he did but backwards & in high heels. — Ginger Rogers
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… — Tommy Bolt
Conceive a jelly-fish such as sails in our summer seas, bell-shaped and of enormous size - far larger, I should judge, than the dome of… — Arthur Conan Doyle
But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world. — Lauren Bacall
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at… — Margaret J. Wheatley

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