Best 76 quotes in «backwards quotes» category

I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

I know that mess spelled backwards is ssem and I felt much better armed with that information.

I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.

I'm looking forward, that's all, I'm not looking backwards.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

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

Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.

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.

I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

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

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

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

Learn to see things backwards, inside out, and upside down.

I was the chief executive once, I've been there. My recommendation to anybody is don't go backwards.

Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

Life, after all, should go forwards, not backwards.

[Lincoln in the Bardo] is not a long book. And that meant I could obsess over it and live in it both backwards and forwards and hyper-control everything.

Maybe the start line was supposed to be your finish line. Don’t be afraid to walk backwards.

Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.

Of course, you can say it backwards, which is dociousaliexpilisticfragicalirupus, but that's going a bit too far, don't you think?

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

One should look forward rather than backwards.

Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

Revolutions never go backwards.

Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.

The best thing about skiing backwards is you can see where you've been.

So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

Strap On spelled backwards is No Parts. Just sayin'.

The Providence of God is like Hebrew words-it can be read only backwards.

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was 'Ben Hur'.

The best way to be future-friendly is to be backwards compatible.

We all get distracted,  the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

This society believed it was looking towards a new future, yet we consistently find ourselves being dragged backwards.

The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.

We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.

We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.

Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

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