#backward

I never look backwards. I have always been an athlete. I boxed before I acted. ↗

— Mickey Rourke

#always #athlete #backwards #been #before

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax; government transfer payments have become less progressive. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#become #conventional #conventional wisdom #federal #government

My dad was working abroad, in Iraq, and he was a doctor. We used to go and visit him, in Baghdad, off and on. For the first ten years of my life, we used to go backwards and forwards to Baghdad, so that was quite amazing. I spent a lot of time traveling around the Middle East. ↗

— Andy Serkis

#amazing #around #backwards #baghdad #dad

I do novels a bit backward. I look for a situation, a milieu first, and then I wait to see who walks into it. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#bit #first #i #i do #into

Dog is God spelled backward. ↗

— Duane Chapman

#dog #god #spelled

Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future. ↗

— Aneurin Bevan

#face #future #his #man #reactionary

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. ↗

— Elizabeth Bowen

#backwards #beginning #between #ending #go

I'm always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#backward #butcher #holler #i #i think

Today's interpretations of religion are often backward and contradict the needs of civilization. ↗

— Naguib Mahfouz

#civilization #contradict #interpretations #needs #often

If I see an ending, I can work backward. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#ending #i #i can #i see #see