Backwards Quotes - Page 17

• The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

  Roberto Benigni

  Corn, Fields, Saws

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

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• When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

  Terry Pratchett

  Eye, Realizing, Mines

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• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Past, Opportunity, Thinking

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• I was kind of a strange child. My parents knew early on that something must have been wrong with me. I crawled backwards until I was two, but had Kennedy's inaugural address memorized by the time I was six.

  Michael Moore

  Children, Two, Parent

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• Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Men, Walking Away, Faces

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• I went backwards and forwards over it until I was 22. And then in the past few years I began to say to myself, OK, look, I'm not messing around. This is something I want to attack, instead of thinking, I'll just see what happens with it.

  Christian Bale

  Past, Thinking, Years

  "New Again: Christian Bale". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 17, 2012.

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• If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

  Jason Derulo

  Fall, Thinking, Perfection

  Interview with Denise Kodia, www.mtv.co.uk. October 4, 2011.

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• It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.

  Pope Francis

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• I understand true life doesn't happen when I constantly gaze backwards, mulling over all the injustices others have done or I have done to others.

  Mary E. DeMuth

  Mulling Over, True Life, Done

  Mary E DeMuth (2010). “Thin Places: A Memoir”, p.48, Zondervan

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• The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.

  Aaron Allston

  Lying, Cat, Differences

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• I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.

  Donald Miller

  Moving, Church, Better Person

  FaceBook post by Donald Miller from Jul 15, 2013

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• Walk out backwards if you must go, but please don't wave good-bye.

  Sara Evans

  Sadness, Bye, Wave

  Song: Walk Out Backwards, 1997

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• It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

  Bruce Jenner

  Kids, Simple, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.

  Bruce Jenner

  Wrong Number, Two, Numbers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of what seemed like mutual appraisal. For me, it was like being at a regatta, sizing up the competition on the dock before climbing into the shells. Could I take him? ... He could inflict serious damage. I sensed that. But he would be unfamiliar with rowers - men used to toiling backwards, blindly, trained, most of all, to endure.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Eye, Men, Climbing

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• To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards

  Frances G. Wickes

  Work, Process, Intuitive

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• The investigation of making is illuminating towards that moment rather than the other way around, a reversal of the way that I would approach making a painting before. I think that it gets to a richer illumination of the moment, which is what I was trying to do at the beginning but going about it a little backwards.

  Julie Mehretu

  Thinking, Illumination, Trying

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• They asked me when I was out there, 'Why do you want to be traded?' I said me staying here is like divorcing my wife and marrying someone who looks like me. That's backwards, man.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Men, Nba

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• Mark Twain had it backwards. Nowadays everybody is doing something about the weather, but nobody is talking about it.

  Stephen Schneider

  Talking, Weather, Mark

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• You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life.
  Your objective should be to go ahead.

  Napoleon Hill

  Should, Stills, Objectives

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• Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

  Dan Pallotta

  Fundraising, Growth, Charity

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• Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.

  Noel Gallagher

  Regression, Progression, Sideways

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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.

  Steve Miller

  Goodbye, Travel, Eye

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• In group lesson number six I think we learned how to turn backwards and then just kind of wiggle. That wasn't really skating backward, but I guess I was going in the right direction.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Thinking, Numbers

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• During my practice sessions, I had walked all around the rink examining each corner. I make a habit of doing this before every major competition, to become familiar with the angles. Then I can envision what it will look and feel like when I am the only one on the ice going into a combination jump, skating backwards or getting ready for my triple Lutz. I know exactly where I will be, and so when it comes time to actually perform my routine, ever step and element will be like deja vu.

  Josee Chouinard

  Sports, Ice, Competition

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