Backwards Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• Always forwards, never backwards.

  Erich Honecker

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• If the music in a groove fits with what you're playing, then play it; if not, then you can play it backwards. If that doesn't work, you try it at a different speed. If it really doesn't work you just break it. The whole ritual to put a record on a turntable just to listen to it, I don't do that too often.

  Christian Marclay

  Play, Trying, Different

  "Don't sleeve me this way" by Rob Young, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2005.

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• One should look forward rather than backwards.

  Anna Wintour

  Looks, Should, Vogue

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• You matter as much as the things that matter to you. And I got so backwards trying to matter to him. All this time, there were real things to care about: real, good people who care about me, and this place. It's so easy to get stuck. You just get caught in being something, being special or cool or whatever, to the point where you don't even know why you need it; you just think you do.

  John Green

  Life, Real, Thinking

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• All things that are, are ours. But we must care. For if we do not care, we do not exist. If we do not exist, then there is nothing but blind oblivion. And even oblivion must end someday. Lord, will you grant me just a little time? For the proper balance of things. To return what was given. For the sake of prisoners and the flight of birds. Death took a step backwards. It was impossible to read expression in azrael's features. Death glanced sideways at the servants. Lord, what can the harvest hope for, if not for the care of the reaper man?

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Expression, Bird

  "Reaper Man". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1991.

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• Tully/Ysolde: "Brom?" I asked, releasing his head. He reeled backwards for a moment, his eyes huge. "Are you all right?" Brom: "I couldn't breathe," he said, giving my boobs a wary glance.

  Katie MacAlister

  Eye, Giving, Moments

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• You put his brain in a bird, the bird would fly backwards" -Secret Life of the Bees

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Bird, Secret, Brain

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• There are two goddesses in your heart,” he told them. “The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you.” Ask nothing from your running, in other words, and you’ll get more than you ever imagined.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Jealous, Heart

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• The older you get, you always learn more. Sometimes it's a process of learning about yourself and what your journey is. Sometimes the process moves forward at a rapid pace in a short amount of time - or moves backwards. And you're like, "Man, I thought I had made so much progress, and now all of a sudden, I'm 10 steps further behind than when I started."

  Octavia Spencer

  Moving, Journey, Men

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• When Europeans came to the New World the first thing they said is, well, Indians don't appreciate property. They're savage. They're backwards. They're uncivilized. ... Nothing could be farther from the truth. Tribes have very clear conceptions of their traditional boundaries, they maintain their rights and their claim sovereignty over the lands according to their own honored traditions and tribal elders. And so, you can go out there on the reservation, and there might be a reservation boundary established by the United States. But then there's traditional land boundaries.

  Robert A. Williams, Jr.

  Appreciate, World, Tradition

  "American Indians Confront 'Savage Anxieties'". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. December 26, 2014.

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• I keep saying that backwards is all you can see. You can't see front. My wife says, "Stop, you're always in the past." She sees me sort of daydreaming.

  Tom Courtenay

  Past, Wife, Daydreaming

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• You - will - never - touch - our - children - again!' screamed Mrs. Weasley. Bellatrix laughed, the same exhilarated laugh her cousin Sirius had given as he toppled backwards through the veil, and suddenly Harry knew what was going to happen before it did. Molly's curse soared beneath Bellatrix's outstretched arm and hit her squarely in the chest, directly over her heart. Bellatrix's gloating smile froze, her eyes seemed to bulge: for the tiniest space of time she knew what had happened, and then she toppled, and the watching crowd roared, and Voldemort screamed.

  J. K. Rowling

  Cousin, Children, Heart

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• MR.GOUDY: I believe you testified that you backed away from Aaron Wharton. MR.COGBURN: That is right. MR.GOUDY: You were backing away? MR.COGBURN: Yes sir. He had that ax raised. MR.GOUDY: Which direction were you going? MR.COGBURN: I always go backwards when I am backing up.

  Charles Portis

  Believe, Backing Up, Backing Away

  Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.65, A&C Black

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• Young Sally Owens: He will hear my call a mile away. He will whistle my favorite song. He can ride a pony backwards. Young Gillian Owens: What are you doing? Young Sally Owens: Summoning up a true love spell called Amas Veritas. He can flip pancakes in the air. He'll be marvelously kind. And his favorite shape will be a star. And he'll have one green eye and one blue. Young Gillian Owens: Thought you never wanted to fall in love. Young Sally Owens: That's the point. The guy I dreamed of doesn't exist. And if he doesn't exist I'll never die of a broken heart.

  Alice Hoffman

  Song, Falling In Love, Stars

  "Fictional characters: Young Sally Owens, Young Gillian Owens". "Practical Magic", www.imdb.com. 1998.

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• People need a moral code, to help them make decisions. All this bio-yogurt virtue and financial self-righteousness are just filling the gap in the market. But the problem is that it's all backwards. It's not that you do the right thing and hope it pays off; the morally right thing is by definition the thing that gives the biggest payoff.

  Tana French

  Self, People, Giving

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2008.

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• Being black and speaking properly are not mutually exclusive. My father was an African, and he spoke beautifully at home. Nelson Mandela speaks beautifully. Should Mandela put his hat on backwards and say, 'Yo, homey, this is Nelson. Yo, Winnie, yo, this is def'?

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Father, Home, Black

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• I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.169, Macmillan

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• Tolkien, who created this marvellous vehicle, doesn't go anywhere in it. He just sits where he is. What I mean by that is that he always seems to be looking backwards, to a greater and more golden past; and what's more he doesn't allow girls or women any important part in the story at all. Life is bigger and more interesting than The Lord of the Rings thinks it is.

  Philip Pullman

  Girl, Mean, Past

  "A life in writing" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2011.

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• Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you're on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don't want to be onstage looking like a robot, I want to be at the end of the day very emotional and what feels like someone being up there rather than reciting things. That's always the challenge, to analyze and then somehow lose yourself in something you absolutely know backwards and forwards. And nothing's going to surprise you, but you have to be surprised by it and let it surprise you.

  Bo Burnham

  Emotional, Challenges, Brain

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• She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

  Elizabeth Hay

  Perfect, Trying, Lost

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• People do look up to me and it makes me feel good. I made it out of a bad situation and I didn't mind bettering myself and I think that is what people respect. Most people go backwards but I was able to look at the big picture.

  Master P

  Thinking, People, Feel Good

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• Christ managed to boil down an awful lot of commandments to a few very simple rules for living. It's when you go backwards through the 'begats' and the Garden of Eden, and you start thinking, 'Hang on, that's a big punishment for eating one lousy apple... There's a human-rights issue.'

  Terry Pratchett

  Simple, Garden, Thinking

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