Backward Quotes

I start with the joke line and write backward.

When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the "freedom of the press" goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.

I always try to start out with some type of goal. Then I work backward and think of what I need to do to get there, and give myself smaller goals that are more immediate.

I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.

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.

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.

The world isn't going backward, if you can just stay young enough to remember what it was really like when you were really young.

A paparazzo once jumped out of a car and started running backward with me. I slowed down out of courtesy because she started drifting into the street. I reached out my hand and moved her back so she didn't get hit by a bus.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

In spite of this fact, the Western powers have never given sufficient importance to the Muslim world. They have always been inclined to treat it as a big backward and lethargic child.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Revolutions go not backward.

Well, I think, I certainly used backward music in Sea of Monsters. I can't remember in the Sea of Time. I would tend to do that all the time, you know? I tended to do all sorts of weird things. Just to get effects.

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.

I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.

During the days of segregation, there was not a place of higher learning for African Americans. They were simply not welcome in many of the traditional schools. And from this backward policy grew the network of historical black colleges and universities.

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

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 customers need and work backward, even if it requires learning new skills. Kindle is an example of working backward.

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.

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

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.

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

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

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.