Reverse Quotes - Page 18

• Usually I do everything reverse. I practice something in movies and then I try it in real life.

  John Cusack

  Real, Practice, Trying

  7 Copy quote

• Destructors for virtual base classes are executed in the reverse order of their appearance in a depth-first left-to-right traversal of the directed acyclic graph of base classes.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Order, Class, Depth

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1991). “C Plus Plus Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley / Helix Books

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse.

  Bill Gates

  Cancer, Leader, Drug

  "Bill Gates And President Bill Clinton On The Nsa, Safe Sex, And American Exceptionalism". Interview with Steven Levy, www.wired.com. November 12, 2013.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Traveling is a way to reverse time, to a small extent, and make a day last a year - or at least forty-five hours - and traveling is an easy way of surrounding ourselves, as in childhood, with what we cannot understand.

  Pico Iyer

  Years, Childhood, Way

  11 Copy quote

• I was in front of an ambulance the other day, and I noticed that the word ambulance was spelled in reverse print on the hood of the ambulance. And I thought, Well, isn't that clever. I look in the rear-view mirror; I can read the word ambulance behind me. Of course while you're reading, you don't see where you're going, you crash. You need an ambulance. I think they're trying to drum up some business on the way back from lunch.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Clever, Reading, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• Why I've never been that fond of politics and only got into it recently kicking and screaming, because I don't think politicians are going to reverse the trajectory of this country. I think it's going to depend on the American people understanding what is fair and what makes their lives better.

  Charles Koch

  Country, Thinking, People

  Source: freebeacon.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive properties. We are spreading the taxes to those with some of the least expensive property.

  Clementa C. Pinckney

  Robins, Favors, Robin Hood

  4 Copy quote

• [Cindy Sherman's] photographs reverse the terms of art and autobiography. They use art not to reveal the artist's true self but to show the self as an imaginary construct. There is no real Cindy Sherman in these photographs; there are only the guises she assumes. And she does not create these guises; she simply chooses them in the way that any of us do.

  Douglas Crimp

  Art, Real, Self

  4 Copy quote

• You have the power to reverse your age.

  Deepak Chopra

  Age

  7 Copy quote

• A revolution that leaves our conceptualization of self and world intact cannot bring other than temporary, superficial change. Only a much deeper revolution, a reconceiving of who we are, can reverse the crises of our age.

  Charles Eisenstein

  Self, Age, World

  Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.247, North Atlantic Books

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

  Waylon Jennings

  Later In Life, Work Out, Littles

  55 Copy quote

• When Jesus was baptized by John, the heavens opened and the Dove descended upon Him. Immediately thereafter, that same Dove drove Him into the wilderness to fast for 40 days and to contend with the territorial strongman over the earth, satan himself. For 40 days, Jesus warred through prayer and fasting to reverse the curse of Adam and Eve and to overcome the devil and release atomic power into the earth. The results recorded in Luke show that history changed forever through the strength and victory the Lord gained by His obedience. Divine power was now His!

  Lou Engle

  Jesus, Prayer, Forever

  Lou Engle (1998). “Digging the Wells of Revival”, p.155, Destiny Image Publishers

  32 Copy quote

  Show source

• The air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget cuts we are facing in this country, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force we have ever had. We have to reverse those cuts, in addition to the cuts to our Navy and in addition to the cuts to our Army, as well.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Fighting, Cutting

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the end we must have people to match our principles, not the reverse.

  Warren Buffett

  People, Principles, Ends

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.103, John Wiley & Sons

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've been a fan of movies longer than anything else. One thing I learned a long time ago is that you can't translate a book literally to the screen. It won't work because it's a different medium. And it would be the same in reverse.

  Andrew Stanton

  Book, Long, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• In truth I never really liked any of the heavy drugs, because normally my energy is up when I'm performing, and that's about it. Cocaine is nothing new. It's the pressure, I think. People use it to relieve that, and for me it is about getting numb and forgetting. I have a reverse metabolic reaction to the stuff.

  Robin Williams

  Thinking, People, Drug

  5 Copy quote

• With money come the tests. My bankruptcy, which at the time I thought was a disaster, turned out to be a major blessing. It taught me so much! Money is not only an isolator, but it's a magnet, too. It draws all kinds of people to you - you may not want them but it draws them to you anyway. The reverse of that, a bankruptcy, sends everybody away.

  Leslie Parrish

  Blessing, People, May

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tolkien seems to me reactionary, conservative, fearful of a modern world. Fearful of anything that isn't sanctioned by the passage of long eons of time. I think what I'm doing in His Dark Materials is politically the reverse of that.

  Philip Pullman

  Dark, Thinking, Long

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true.

  Bruce Greenwood

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was in a pharmacy and I saw the warnings on the backs of poisonous substances, and I thought, "Well, that's what I can do." So I wrote a list of ingredients in the book, and warnings that they shouldn't consume those ingredients. The editor and the publisher thought that it was a great way to go in terms of reverse psychology, but it honestly hadn't occurred to me that it was reverse psychology. I just thought that it was sort of an honest assessment making clear that if you were timid or easily disturbed, you could turn away.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Editors, Assessment

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• I think one of my favorite things about making low budget movies is that when you get into expensive moviemaking territory, it's almost impossible not to reverse engineer the movies. It's irresponsible not to think about the result and the financial result. But when you make low budget movies, you can put that out of your head.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Thinking, Territory, Favorites Things

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Rights, Passive Resistance, Suffering

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anthony J. Parel (1997). “Gandhi: 'Hind Swaraj' and Other Writings”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Turkeys, Long

  4 Copy quote

• Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does he come running when you cry?

  Sandra Scarr

  Running, Thinking, Parent

  4 Copy quote

• I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Life, Time, Moving

  4 Copy quote