Backwards Quotes - Page 10

• But Nature too, shakes off her sleep today; By May's mild sun we see reviv'd her frame, Around my window Venus' birds proclaim, The month most cherish'd backwards bends his way!

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Sleep, Bird, Today

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• Buonaparte is certainly writing, or rather dictating, his memoirs. He walks backwards and forwards with his hands behind him, and dictates so fast that two or three of his suite are obliged to be in attendance, that the one may take down one-half of a sentence, and another the rest; they then literally compare notes, and put the disjointed legs and wings and heads of periods together. This is writing a book as he fought a battle.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Book, Writing, Wings

  Mary Russell Mitford (1870). “The Life of Mary Russell Mitford ; Related in an Selection from Her Letters to Her Friends. Ed. by A.G. Estrange”, p.7

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• Ultimately it doesn't matter whether you go forwards or backwards: you need to live your life as well as you can.

  Eric Roth

  Live Your Life, Needs, Matter

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• For me, I am constantly forcing myself to evolve, because, I think, to stagnate creatively - there's a certain death that happens with that. Because if you're not moving forward and you're not evolving, you're devolving, and I don't want to go backwards. I want to be better at what I do tomorrow than I am today. I don't want to be worse.

  Audra McDonald

  Moving, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• It's the people who work hard and earn big that keep the machine tipping for everybody else. If everybody else was equal down the bottom rung of a ladder, nobody would be on the ladder at all because it would break and everybody would fall off backwards. So you need people at the top to help pull those people up from the bottom. You can't take that and swing to the right. You can't have everybody living in the same ordinary $60,000 house because you may as well live in Russia, Bulgaria or some other Eastern block Communist nation.

  Robin Leach

  Block, Fall, Hard Work

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

  Keshia Chante

  Loyalty, Destiny, Ruins

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• Things that make me laugh range from a wonderful stand-up like Jerry Seinfeld, Louis C.K. and Chris Rock to my son Gabe, who does great improv work. I also look backwards to the great comedic actors like Jackie Gleason, Paul Lynde and Phil Silvers.

  Jason Alexander

  Son, Rocks, Laughing

  "Jason Alexander: George Costanza gets his hair back". Interview with Erica Rivera, www.startribune.com. January 23, 2014.

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• I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.

  Rachel McAdams

  Fun, Kids, Feelings

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• If the Taliban comes back to power, the impact would be devastating. A country that has made great strides, in terms of development indicators, would take a huge step backwards. Afghanistan's national economy would be devastated.

  Chris Alexander

  Country, Impact, Would Be

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Moving, Steps, Sometimes

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• I went to India and was quite taken with it. There's a feeling there that things are holy first and useful second. And in America, we have it backwards.

  Mary Oliver

  Taken, America, Feelings

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Grief moves us like love. Grief is love, I suppose. Love as a backwards glance.

  Helen Humphreys

  Grief, Moving, Like Love

  Helen Humphreys (2003). “The Lost Garden: A Novel”, p.57, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If we wish not to go backwards, we must run.

  Pelagius

  Running, Wish, Ifs

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• There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Two, Guy

  Clint Eastwood, Kathie Coblentz (1999). “Clint Eastwood: Interviews”, p.6, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When you feel that you are at the end of your path and there is a ten foot high brick wall right there in front of you, and you have nowhere to go but backwards, break down that wall and move forward. There are great and wonderful things on the other side of that wall... and, they have always been there. Let nothing divide you from what you need to do in life, and see the solutions that are right in front of you. The key is, you must break down what separates you from them and choose to find them.

  Rich Barnes

  Motivational, Wall, Moving

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• One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

  Storm Jameson

  Past, Long, Steps

  Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.402, A&C Black

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• I went to so many record labels - name any one - and they all turned me down. For some reason I just got the thumbs down for years and years. It sounds like I'm making that up, but it's true. I'm too serious about music and my creations to take just any kind of deal. 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, Serious, Kind

  "1970s R&B Man Shuggie Otis Is Ready for His 'Sneak Back'". Interview With Jacob Blickenstaff, January 21, 2013.

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• The Republican Party has bent over backwards not even criticizing Democrats in hopes that people wouldn't think they're what the Democrats say they are, while the Democrats go out and behave that way times ten all the time every day and never get called on it.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Thinking, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Kind, Expatriates, Train Stations

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. April 2, 2007.

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• We're looking for stuff everyone agrees is a complete waste of time. Many agencies have forgotten how to deregulate. It's been so long since somebody asked them to look backwards.

  Mick Mulvaney

  Long, Wasting Time, Forgotten

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• Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

  Joe Bradley

  Moving, Painting, Rough Times

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We don't know where the lines should be drawn. Which to me means that we people of goodwill have to bend over backwards to be scrupulous, to be exceedingly careful about code words, about messages, so as not to inflame the evil angels in our nature, if you will.

  Maria Echaveste

  Mean, Angel, People

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• When the industrial revolution happened there was the Luddistic movement, and there was a fear that machinery would replace all the labor. Whenever we had a technological revolution we had this fear. So if you look backwards, these fears were not justified, and I think they were driven by our very human inability to visualize what new jobs will be created by this new technology.

  Branko Milanovic

  Technology, Thinking, New Job

  Source: gawker.com

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• Managers who assume that higher profits drive better working conditions may have their logic backwards. Contrary to conventional wisdom, our research identified companies in virtually every industry that are profitable because they provide good jobs.

  James O'Toole

  Logic, Assuming, Good Job

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• You try and imagine what it must have been like to first see something moving on a screen. It must have blown your mind, because up to then life went by and there was no way to capture it. You could only get one instant and you didn't get the movement. So it's like having a bit of control over time really, because it's happening in real time or what seems to be real time, and then you can play it backwards and you can watch things again and again.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Real, Moving, Mind

  Source: thequietus.com

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