Backward Quotes

No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.

I would bend over backward to be back on Grey's. Any day, I'll choose lying in bed with Katherine Heigl looking over me over getting thrown against walls by supernatural persons at 5 in the morning.

Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic.

Everything that everyone is afraid of has already happened: The fragility of capitalism, which we don't want to admit; the loss of the empire of the United States; and American exceptionalism. In fact, American exceptionalism is that we are exceptionally backward in about fifteen different categories, from education to infrastructure.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Traditionally art is to create and not to revive. To revive: leave that to the historians, who are looking backward.

You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.

Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.

A second characteristic of our time is the prevalence of nationalism. This is still spreading, affecting new communities, more peripheral regions and so-called backward peoples.

Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

The historian is a prophet looking backward.

Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.

A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.