The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.
I'm just going about my business. Am I going to bend over backwards to assure everybody that I'm a good guy? No, I'm not going to do it.
Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.
Smacked her so hard I knocked her clothes backwards like Kris Kross.
Most horses don't walk backwards voluntarily, because what they can't see doesn't exist.
Britain is economically very closely integrated with its European partner countries. Were these ties to be cut, it would be a huge step backwards for the country and would weaken it considerably. In the era of globalisation, "splendid isolation" is not a smart option.
There are those who never reason on what they should do, but what they have done; as if Reason had her eyes behind, and could only see backwards.
You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
I thought it was magic to be able to catch something identically on tape and then be able to play around with it, run it backwards; I thought that was great for years.
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.
If we wish not to go backwards, we must run.
When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards.
Progression is going forwards. Going backwards is regression. Going sideways is just gression.
I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.
In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm.
At the end of your days, be leaning forwards, not falling backwards.
When I was a kid in Eugene, Oregon, there was this fantastic guitar player who went out on the tables, chairs, out in the audience and played. So I started taking my guitar in the audience. I tripped, fell backwards and ripped my pants.
Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.
I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.