Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them.
I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.
Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction.
No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training.
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.
We modern Marxists regard socialism as a historically brief transitional stage between feudalism and capitalism, necessary only in backward countries.
The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar years are numbered forward and backward from the entire time of His birth.
I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.
Grocer: [tired of counting backwards after Evelle has robbed him] Seven hunnerd an' ninety-one... Aw, bullshit!
I kind of fell backwards into acting. I was studying to be a high school teacher. I look now and I understand completely, or actually barely, how much work it is to be a teacher. It's an incredible amount of work.
When you're stressed, you eat ice cream, cake, chocolate and sweets. Why? Because stressed spelled backwards is desserts.
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity.
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it.
The condemned man’s voice is laced with dark promise as he continues. “Remember Father, evil is simply ‘live’ spelt backwards." Hellbound
I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.
We cannot look backwards. What we have to do is raise our heads, look forward, roll up our sleeves and work.
I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it?
The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.
