Backwards Quotes - Page 9

• I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Horse, Art, Thinking

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• I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.

  Corey Dillon

  Guy, Good Guy

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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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• With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Eye, Past, Walks

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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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• 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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• 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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• In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

  Linda Chavez

  Religious, Military, Want

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• I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

  Carter Burwell

  New York, Looks, World

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• There were a couple of companies that wanted to put me with a producer, and I said, "Well, I just produced my last album," and I wasn't about to go backwards.

  Shuggie Otis

  Couple, Albums, Lasts

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• It's funny because when you do become successful, you're forced to look backwards and try to crawl back into the womb where you first started to create.

  Jack White

  Successful, Trying, Looks

  "The Raconteurs". Interview with Jonathan Durbin, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 29, 2008.

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• Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.

  John McCain

  Wall, Democracies Have, Effort

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• I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.

  Tom Verlaine

  Lying, Writing, Rocks

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• history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

  Marthe Bibesco

  History, Upside Down, Immortality

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• Our Lord God doeth work like a printer who setteth the letters backwards; we see and feel well his setting, but we shall see the print yonder - in the life to come.

  Martin Luther

  Letters, Lord, Print

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• The weeks go by so slow I almost think time passin backwards.

  Winston Groom

  Time, Thinking, Week

  Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• In terms of writing about horses, I fell backwards into that. I was intent on getting a Ph.D., becoming a professor, and writing on history but I got sick 14 years ago when I was 19. Getting sick derailed that plan completely

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Horse, Writing, Years

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• 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.

  A. A. Gill

  Death, Father, Directors

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• I never think of what it's going to be like later. I only think in the present tense. The only time I think backwards is when I have to reissue something.

  Henry Rollins

  Thinking, Tense, Only Time

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colored crystals suddenly falls into a beautiful symmetrical pattern.

  Catherine Brady

  Beautiful, Fall, Stories

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Doing What You Love, Genius, Logic

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.70, North Atlantic Books

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• A reactionary revolution is nothing but a high-speed evolution backwards!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Revolution, Speed, Reactionaries

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• Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.

  Rob Bell

  Loss, Years, Events

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• Icelandic people are really educated. But maybe we are at where the people in the States were 50 years ago, where they think that stuff that isn't done with a hammer or physical power is not a job. It's that backwards.

  Bjork

  Thinking, People, Done

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