Backwards Quotes - Page 4

• A radical is a man with both feet firmly planted-in the air. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs, who, however, has never learned to walk forward. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. A liberal is a man who uses his legs and hands at the behest of his head.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Feet, Perfectly Good

  Radio address, 26 Oct. 1939

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• Did you know that..........'embargo' spelled backwards is 'o grab me

  Colin Mochrie

  Embargo, Knows, Did You Know

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• And if I really can see the future, then what does it mean? Is there any sense in our lives if everything is already out there, just waiting to happen? For if that were so, then life would be a horrible monster indeed, with no chance of escape from fate, from destiny. It would be like reading a book, but reading it backwards, from the final chapter down to chapter one, so that the end is already known to you.

  Marcus Sedgwick

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

  Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

  Running, Parent, Saving

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• I played the track 'Exciter' backwards and suggested to the judge that what he'd heard was, 'I asked her for a peppermint. I asked her to get me one'. When the judge heard it, his eyes lit up. It was as if he realized how ridiculous the whole thing was.

  Rob Halford

  Eye, Track, Judging

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• In a way, I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview. I'd rather ride down the street on a camel nude. In a snowstorm. Backwards.

  Warren Beatty

  Giving, Depth, Camels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Market bashers ... might understand the claim that in some particular field, markets required no intervention--though they'd be skeptical--but the notion that, on general principle, complex systems ran themselves just fine without benign intervention seemed like it could only be the product of a quasi-religious faith. ... Of course, this gets things almost precisely backwards. It is the idea that all order must be explained by a functioning mind at the helm, not its denial, that has the closet affinity to the religious instinct.

  Julian Sanchez

  Religious, Order, Ideas

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• When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold, wafted backwards and forwards as if in an invisible process of air conditioning, creating a pervasive physical disturbance.

  Anthony Powell

  Hate, Air, Creating

  Anthony Powell (1995). “A Dance to the Music of Time: Third Movement”, p.161, University of Chicago Press

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• & love is an evil word. Turn it backwards/see, see what I mean? An evol word.

  Amiri Baraka

  Mean, Love Is, Evil

  Amiri Baraka (2015). “S O S: Poems 1961-2013”, p.31, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Life can be confusing. Good God, and how. Sometimes it seems like the older I get, the more confused I become. That seems ass-backwards. I thought I was supposed to be getting wiser. Instead, I just keep getting hit over the head with my relative insignificance in the greater scheme of the universe. Confusing, life. But it beats the hell out of the alternative.

  Jim Butcher

  Confused, Confusing, Alternatives

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 7-12”, p.1268, Penguin

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• I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.

  Brian Setzer

  Running, Cat, People

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• When I go into my living room and turn on the TV, I feel like I have gone backwards in time by 20 to 30 years. It's an area of intense interest. I can't say more than that.

  Tim Cook

  Years, Rooms, Tvs

  "Cast Your Bets: Bookies Predict the Chances of What Apple Will Announce" by Alexandra Chang, www.wired.com. September 9, 2013.

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• I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

  Scott McCloud

  Looks, Kind, Difficult

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 23, 2000.

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• This bowl has lived up to all the hype that I heard of it. Coaches...that have been here rave about the hospitality, rave about the venue and all the activities for the players. The people here have been marvelous. The bowl committee has bent over backwards to make sure that our stay is an excellent one. The players have something to do if they choose every day. You couldn't find a better place.

  Barry Alvarez

  Player, Hype, People

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• Always forwards, never backwards.

  Erich Honecker

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• The most precise work is generally done by hand, with hand tools. Some people rely on machines for their precision, and my way of working is backwards. I rely on the machines for doing the gross stock removal and then, when it comes to the final refinements and fitting of joints and things, making things work together, I rely more on sharp-edged tools that I push by hand.

  Martin Puryear

  Hands, People, Together

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• I want to remind you right quick what this country has been through, and the challenges this economy had faced over the last three years. First, we went through a recession. That means we were going backwards.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Mean, Years

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• Going backwards is never an option.

  Melissa Marr

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• I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Birthday, Dad, Age

  "Helena Bonham Carter: 'We're the bonkers couple'" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2010.

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• I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.169, Macmillan

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• People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

  Tana French

  Self, People, Giving

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2008.

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• Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart.

  Alice Hoffman

  Song, Falling In Love, Stars

  "Fictional characters: Young Sally Owens, Young Gillian Owens". "Practical Magic", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised. MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going? MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.

  Charles Portis

  Believe, Backing Up, Backing Away

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.65, A&C Black

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• You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• I need to learn not to bend over backwards to be nice to faith-heads. Give these people an inch and they take a league. I think, as I did when I wrote The God Delusion, that the Roman Catholic Church is a disgusting institution, the second most evil religion in the world.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Thinking, People

  "Divine dispatches: a religion roundup" Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. April 28, 2011.

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