Backward Quotes

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

I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.

The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.

If you see me at a restaurant, blow me a kiss, wave, blow me another kiss, then walk five steps backward.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Obama sees everything backward. Where Americans see individual achievement, he sees government's work. Where we see failing companies, he sees innovation worth subsidizing. Where we see the need for economic growth, he sees a need for higher taxes.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

If I see an ending, I can work backward.