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Quotes About Backwards

Someone told me something that stuck with me: 'You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.' I've been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I'm just backtracking and trying to get back up there.
~ Bruno Mars
Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?
~ Edvard Munch
It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.
~ Lewis Carroll
That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first—' 'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!' '—but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.' 'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
~ Lewis Carroll
That's the effect of living backwards,' the Queen said kindly: 'it always makes one a little giddy at first--' 'Living backwards!' Alice repeated in great astonishment. 'I never heard of such a thing!' '--but there's one great advantage in it, that one's memory works both ways.' 'I'm sure MINE only works one way,' Alice remarked. 'I can't remember things before they happen.' 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' the Queen remarked.
~ Lewis Carroll
Dogma", spelled backwards, is "Am God". When a person allows someone else's dogma to become their God, they have things backwards.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Ginger did everything Fred did, only backwards and in High Heels!
~ Joan Rivers
I believe that Prime Minister Modi will respond positively to development projects for backward areas. That is why I am promising them.
~ Tamilisai Soundararajan
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.
~ Dorothy Hamill
That's not weird," said Jenny. "That's normal. Try reading a story backward. That's weird. I'm the weird one in this class." "That's a laugh!" said Rondi. "If you're so weird, then how come you never asked Louis to kick you in the teeth? I'm the one who's crazy!" "No, that's not crazy," said Todd. "I'll tell
~ Louis Sachar
A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment.
~ Rudyard Kipling
but no, ends must not be permitted to precede beginnings and middles, even if recent scientific experiments have shown us that within certain types of closed systems, under intense pressure, time can be persuaded to run backwards, so that effects precede their causes.
~ Salman Rushdie
The BJP is an optimistic party. Our strength and our democratic values are such that even a poor person from a backward section - like me - has been nominated as a Prime Ministerial candidate.
~ Narendra Modi
The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.
~ Anne Sexton
To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.
~ E. Kim Nebeuts
The re-establishment of a hard border on the island of Ireland would be a step backwards and present an opportunity for others, with malign agendas, to exploit for destructive purposes.
~ Enda Kenny
He's [Nixon] like a Spanish horse, who runs faster than anyone for the first nine lengths and then turns around and runs backwards. You'll see; he'll do something wrong in the end. He always does.
~ Lyndon Baines Johnson
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
~ Aldous Huxley, Ends and Means
Infinity is just zero spelled backwards.
~ Derek R. Audette
Instead of the country agreeing with her community on the natural rightness of heterosexual marriage as the center of family life, she was now obliged to defend herself against the idea that these views were sexist, homophobic, old-fashioned, and backward.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.
~ Debra Granik
You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology. You can't start with the technology and try to figure out where you're going to sell it.
~ Steve Jobs
his thoughts washing backwards and into him as if the ocean could be sucked back into the tiny mysterious coils of a single shell.
~ Anne Rice
Sometimes I think the theologians have got it backwards. The big problem is not How to explain the existence of evil in this world. It's How to explain the existence of good.
~ Anne Rice