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Quotes About Backwards

No. I'll show proper deference . . . the day you train your horse to fly backwards around the castle's turrets.
~ John Flanagan
For a genre that's about looking to the future, science fiction has sure been looking backwards lately. Nostalgia is what sells best, with readers spending their money on movie tie-in novels and sequels to long-running series.
~ Nick Sagan
Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
IF is a very long word in Formula One; in fact, IF is F1 spelled backwards.
~ Murray Walker
During the war some of the country's sharpest minds had looked as if they had been dragged through a hedge backwards.
~ Sara Sheridan
Heliogabalus enters Rome one morning in March 218, at dawn, to coincide almost exactly with the Ides of March. And he enters it backwards. In front of him is the [ten ton] Phallus, drawn by three hundred bare-breasted girls who precede three hundred bulls, torpid and tranquil after being given a very powerful soporific during the hours before dawn.
~ Antonin Artaud
Chief Coordinator of DALTO – the Department of Aid to the Less technically Oriented, working to induce backwards nations to come forwards.
~ Shirley Hazzard
I love horses, and when the SPCA tells me off I get real mad because I know more about horses than they do. They say you can't rear a horse up backwards, but I do it so they fall into foam rubber and don't get hurt at all.
~ Hal Needham
Love is evil, spell it backwards, I'll show ya.
~ Eminem
Love is evil spell it backwards I'll show ya.
~ Eminem
inverse of the word live is evil.
~ Ben Okri
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire and live by love though the stars walk backwards.
~ Ben Sherwood
To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
~ John Negroponte
Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.
~ Robert Kagan
Jeff Bezos's favourite saying is 'Start with the customer and work backwards,' but it is repeated as a mantra so frequently by his staff that you cannot help thinking they start with the boss and work forwards.
~ Matt Ridley
I like what Flaubert once wrote. History is prophecy, looking backwards.
~ Steve Berry
You've got to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology," Steve Jobs told the audience at Apple's 1997 Worldwide Developers Conference. "You can't start with the technology and try to figure out how you're going to try to sell it. I made this mistake probably more than anybody in this room, and I've got the scar tissue to prove it."[9] Today, "work backwards" is a mantra in Silicon Valley.
~ Bent Flyvbjerg
Idiot spelled backward," said Phil, cackling.
~ Beverly Lewis
A sail boat that sails backwards can never see the sun rise.
~ Bill Cosby
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
~ Carter Burwell
One topic which often brings liberals and conservatives together in the U.S. is Iran. There is a general consensus that the Revolution was the embodiment of backwardness and barbarism.
~ Mohammad Marandi
The tragedy of our time is that we've got it backwards, we've learned to love techniques and use people.
~ Herb Kelleher
Read backwards. When you research a company's financial reports, start reading on the last page and slowly work your way toward the front. Anything
~ Benjamin Graham
Read backwards. When you research a company's financial reports, start reading on the last page and slowly work your way toward the front. Anything that the company doesn't want you to find is buried in the back—which is precisely why you should look there first.
~ Benjamin Graham