Backwards Quotes

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.

Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backwards after taking a step forwards is not a disaster. It's a cha-cha.

Everything is backwards now, like out there is the true world, and in here is the dream.

The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

Do you know why the nose of the bull dog is sloped backwards? So it can keep on breathing without ever letting go.

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

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.

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

No Victor, you got it backwards, you should evaluate these integrals non-rigorously if you can, and rigorously if you must.

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.

I'm a living example of getting into films backwards. Merely by accident. Exposure to films and ideas is the best thing that colleges can do.

It was once rumored that fledgling executives walked around their offices backwards so they wouldn't have to face an issue.

If you walk backwards, you will never stub your toe.

If you go through the pearly gates backwards in a fireball, that's a cool way to die!

Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives.

A historian is not always a prophet facing backwards, but a journalist is always someone who afterwards knew everything beforehand.

Why do scuba divers fall backwards off a boat? Because if they fell forwards they'd still be in the boat.

There's an exercise we do where someone is sat behind you and you're asked to close your eyes and fall backwards. That's acting.

Backwards understood be only can but, forwards lived be must life.

It's fun to look backwards and be like, "Oh, this song never really worked live before but now it will sound cool with this lineup."

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that.

I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

I always go backwards when I am backing up.

I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now.

It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

I have little weird things that aren't really specific but are just kind of odd. I write my 5's backwards, and I don't know if anyone would even care, at all.

Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.

Every profound new movement makes a great swing also backwards to some older, half-forgotten way of consciousness.

It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

A lot of times people have you pegged for what you are, and that's what you are and need to stay in. Going from an actress into my true passion for other people, it may seem kind of backwards.

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.

In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

The thing about Vegas is, I don't have to fly anywhere, and that really helps. It means I stay in one place for three weeks at a time instead of flying backwards and forwards.