#backward

When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards. ↗

— Bruce Jenner

#brain #comes #faster #first #head

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#backward #chords #experimenting #favorite #first

I start with the joke line and write backward. ↗

— Nipsey Russell

#i #joke #line #start #write

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. ↗

— Alberto Salazar

#broke #city #down #dropped #marathon

The historian is a prophet looking backward. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#historian #looking #prophet

I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did. ↗

— Brian Setzer

#backwards #brain #cat #did #diminished

If you stand still there is only one way to go, and that's backwards. ↗

— Peter Shilton

#go #only #stand #still #way

I've lived my career backwards - I started off huge and I've got smaller and more personal, and I'm much more comfortable now. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#career #comfortable #got #huge #i

Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees. ↗

— George G. Simpson

#converge #course #degrees #different #orders

The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards, so the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur backwards. ↗

— Roberto Benigni

#ben #corn #ever #field #first