Backwards Quotes

483 quotes by 411 authors

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward. — James Thurber
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards. — Murray Walker
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… — Gabrielle Zevin
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. — Ann Richards
It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with… — George Orwell
[The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitorâ€™s stead, the Table would crack… — C.S. Lewis
Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter. — Carl Jung
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise. — Bill Cosby
Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go. — Winston Churchill
I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I think I'll be a clown when I get grown,' said Dill. Jem and I stopped in our tracks. Yes sir, a clown,' he said.… — Harper Lee
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… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
She whirled when the monster was almost on top of her. I thought the thing in her hands was an umbrella until she cranked the… — Rick Riordan
Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible. — Wayne Dyer
It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins. — Richard Paul Evans
Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all.… — S.M. Stirling
Searching for nothing Wondering if Iâ€™ll change Iâ€™m trying everything But everything still stays the same I thought if I showed you I could fly… — Sully Erna
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. — Lisa Kleypas
Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil — Eminem
When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my… — Tom Stoppard

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