Backwards Quotes
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I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
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Goodbye to my friends at home, goodbye to people I've trusted. I've got to go out and make my way, I might get rich, you know I might get busted. But my heart keeps calling me backwards, as I get on the 707. Ridin' high, I got tears in my eyes, you know you got to go through hell before you get to heaven. Big ol' jet airliner, don't carry me too far away. Big ol' jet airliner, 'cause it's here that I've got to stay.
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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
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When you stir your rice pudding, Septimus, the spoonful of jam spreads itself round making red trails like the picture of a meteor in my astronomical atlas. But if you stir backwards, the jam will not come together again. Indeed, the pudding does not notice and continues to turn pink just as before. Do you think this is odd?
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Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
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And love is 'evol'; spell it backwards. I'll show you.
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Going back to a simpler life is not a step backwards.
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I'm not the type of person who likes to look backwards. I've always felt compelled to move forward and I've never been one to dwell in the past. All the people I've met, all the places I've been, and all the things that I've done have simply been part of who I am.
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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.
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Minorities have been hustling backwards from check to check.
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Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.
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I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.
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You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
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Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.
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You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.
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Ya'll are Eminem backwards, you're mini-mes
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History is a game played backwards only.
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The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup.
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They’d say, ‘If you play the record backwards, you can hear evil things like 'grrrr!'’ and I would think, ‘Geez, I didn’t know the devil sounded like that. I thought he was coherent like the rest of us.’
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Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.
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We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward...
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My response to them is that?s looking backwards.
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When I read John Cage's book Silence, I was growing up in Louisville, Kentucky. For me, records were a mode of time travel and geographic travel, interfacing with a much larger world. So it seemed antiquated and backwards that Cage would be so down on them.
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You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life. Your objective should be to go ahead.
