Quotes About Backwards

Federal Switzerlandization would be a huge step backwards for Germany. Two

Security wins many battles but loses the security war. We are definitely going backwards in computer security.

One prominent spiritual leader insists, "The only way to have a genuine spiritual revival is to have legislative reform." Could he have that backwards?

But the centaurs ran the wrong way, back toward

There are certain artists that get into the little circle in hip-hop, and everybody is talking about them, and they are buzzing. But they can't go out and sell out tours, perform in front of 3,000 people a night, and things like that. We did things backwards; with Visionary, we got all the fans first.

His neck as he stretched it upwards and backwards, felt like the neck of an antediluvian tortoise.

The condemned man's voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. "Remember Father, evil is simply 'live' spelt backwards." Hellbound

And the scarecrow went soaring away. Up and backward it went, rags fluttering, arms wheeling in protest, up and out, and on and on, until it was a soaring speck in the sky, then a vanishing point in the clouds, and then not to be seen at all.

We will follow the bullet trajectories backwards to the lives that occupy the shadows, actual men who moan in their dreams.

Bud edged up next to a young man in a butcher's apron who had a baseball cap on backwards.

What I'm trying to explain to my sulky little cousin is that we are doing things backwards. We are going from the end of the river to the start of the river. And endings are always sad. We are doing the sad bit first, which is wrong. Strange.

This is the magical realism of NAFTA - Mexico, the birthplace of corn, is now importing surplus corn from el Norte - millions of tons driving the price down so campesinos can't afford to grow it. Exporting people and importing corn. It is backwards, no?

My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

Homie you got it backwards, your dipping your soup inside your crackers.

Assad whistled a few notes of one of his native country's melancholic songs. It sounded as though he was whistling backwards

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

It was a backwards memory of an event in his future so terrifying that it had generated harmonics of fear all the way along his lifeline.

I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.

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One still unused experiment from this time was an exploration of backward vocals. A phrase written out backwards letter for letter and then read out will not sound correct when reversed, but a spoken phrase recorded and played backwards can be learnt and recited. This gives a very odd effect when it is in turn played backwards. 'Neeagadelouff' was one I remember: it should come out as 'fooled again'.

He bowed her head, working his hands; then he turned and started walking backwards again, facing her. Anna followed, keeping a sharp eye out for things he might back into or over. She wondered is Isaac did this all the time – and, if so, how he avoided getting photos in the paper with captions like "Local Alpha Trips over Child" or "Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.

Our quiet rage gives us wings, the possibility to negotiate the gears winding backwards uniting all time.

recovery from Cptsd is complex. Sometimes, it can feel so hopelessly complex that we totally give up and get stuck in inertia for considerable lengths of time. This is why it is so important to understand that recovery is gradual and frequently a backwards and forwards process.

Conspiracy theory, like causality, works fantastically well as an explanatory model but only if you use it backwards. The fact that we cannot predict much about tomorrow strongly indicates that most of the explanations we develop about how something happened yesterday have (like history in general) a high bullshit content.