Backward Quotes

You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.

Serve the dinner backward, do anything - but for goodness sake, do something weird.

During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.

There may be some backward countries where the mass of the people are on a subsistence level and where, as an aftermath of wars or partial crop failures, the standard of living has to be drastically reduced, but this certainly is not the case in our prosperous nations.

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.

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.

Forward ever, backward never.

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.

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.

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.

Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.

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!

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.