Backwards Quotes (page 8)

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• fighting
• adversity
• real

The participation if women in some armies in the world is in reality only symbolic. The talk about the role of Zionist women in fighting with the combat units of the enemy in the war of 5 June 1967 was intended more as propaganda than anything real or substantial. It was calculated to intensify and compound the adverse psychological effects of the war by exploiting the backward outlook of large sections of Arab society and their role in the community. The intention was to achieve adverse... Saddam Hussein

• high
• heels
• remembered

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels. Bob Thaves

• dog
• liked
• liking

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. Gilbert K. Chesterton

• walking
• love
• star

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. E. E. Cummings

• highly
• heels
• heel

I did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels. Ginger Rogers

• life
• to live
• dead

In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm. Woody Allen

• saying
• evening
• sometimes

I’m not good at talking,” Naoko said. “Haven’t been for the longest while. I start to say something and the wrong words come out. Wrong or sometimes completely backward. I try to go back and correct it, but things get even more complicated and confused, so that I don’t even remember what I started to say in the first place. Like I was split into two or something, one half chasing the other. And there’s this big pillar in the middle and they go chasing each other around and around it. The... Haruki Murakami

• path
• continue
• go

To continue in one path is to go backward. Igor Stravinsky

• little
• dance
• girl

He liked the girls, liked to hold them around the waist, felt like a man when he did. But as for talking with them, no, no! Then he felt as though he were dealing with another species of human being, in some cases a higher one, in others a lower. He secretly admired the weak, pale, little girl and had picked her to be his wife. That was still the only way he could think of a woman - as a wife. He danced in a very chaste and proper manner, but he heard awful stories about his pals, stories he... August Strindberg

• forward
• remember
• save

Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself... Joyce Carol Oates

• lesson learned
• hand
• impressive

That bit where that lad sprang backwards right across the room with them axes in his hands was impressive, though."Yeah."You didn't ought to have stuck your sword out like that, I thought."He's learned an important lesson."It won't do him much good now where he's gone. Terry Prachett

• bird
• look
• takes

These are the days when birds come back, a very few, a Bird or two, to take a backward look. Emily Dickinson

• alone
• eyes
• humanity

Since the first human eye saw a leaf in Devonian sandstone and a puzzled fingerreached to touch it, sadness has lain over the heart of man. By this tenuousthread of living protoplasm, stretching backward into time, we are linked forever to lost beaches whose sands have long since hardened into stone. The stars that caught our blindamphibian stare have shifted far or vanished in their courses, but still that naked, glistening thread winds onward. No one knows the secret of its beginning or its... Loren Eiseley

• adventure
• forward
• adventuring

A year jammed full of adventure and misadventure, strides forward and many steps backward, another year in my topsy-turvy, Jekyll-and-Hyde existence. Anthony Kiedis

• film
• war
• epic

Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin. It is largely because of the books, films and reminiscences that have come between that the war of 1914-18 is now supposed to have had some tremendous, epic quality that the present one lacks. George Orwell