#backward

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' ↗

— Arthur Smith

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Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward. ↗

— Al-Waleed bin Talal

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

— Elizabeth Bowen

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If someone was making a movie about F1 in the last six months, they wouldn't need to add a Hollywood ending. If they do make that movie, it's got to be 'The Curious Case Of Jenson Button,' where I've lived my life backwards. I'd like Johnny Depp to play me but he wouldn't be quite right. ↗

— Jenson Button

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I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es! ↗

— Hilary Putnam

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You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward. ↗

— Jim Bakker

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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. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

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And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

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Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. ↗

— Edmund Burke

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