Famous Quotes & Sayings

We knew that we had to come out hard and pressure right from the start. We thought if we could get them going backwards we'd be in with a chance so that was the game plan.

Too many investors tend to be backward looking. You can't just say they declared the quarterly dividend for the last 10 years, I guess they're going to keep paying it. Think about what the business conditions are.

To say that GM is bending over backwards to sell cars in general and cars with navigation systems in particular is an understatement. But they're just throwing money away if they don't get out in front of customers and tell their story effectively.

We didn't go backward and maybe we even went a little bit forward in the 2003 and 2005 legislative sessions.

Edmund Burke

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.

We have the least (economic) resilience (of all the states), we never built up a surplus. We don't have the momentum, and we will go backwards; the economy of Michigan will get worse relative to the other states, we will go backward 1 to 2 percent.

Joe Cornish

I worry whether it's not really the best way to live one's life - trying to fulfill the dreams you had as a child. Maybe it's quite a backwards approach.

We haven't stepped forward enough. You have to go more forward than backward and we haven't done that. I take a lot of responsibility for that. There's no moral victory. I don't believe in that in any shape or form.

You don't close divergences by taking time off to have a cup of tea. If you do so, you will find that everybody has moved backward in the meantime.

Deron Miller

You just get to the point where outdoing yourself and progressing as a musician just gets more and more important. I think that there'll never be a time where we go forward but move backwards musically. I think we'll always push to outdo what we've done.

Gareth Thomas

Understandably, Mrs Catesby was very shocked and upset by the experience and thankfully only sustained minor injuries - a bruised hip and elbow from when she fell backwards in the assault.

We get letters all the time about him wearing his hat backward and how it makes him look like a drug guy and how he really needs to quit being an idiot and wear it the right way. It's incredible.

The premier is just shifting chairs. At the Health Department we are only going to go backwards as a province.

Mitchell Baker

We don't spend our days thinking about Microsoft or trying to get revenge on Microsoft. That's a really negative and backward way, and that's not how I want to live.

We know Katrina had a negative impact on earnings, ... They (investors) are looking more forward than backwards on earnings.

I saw when I got the ball there were four seconds left, so I had time to dribble a couple of times. I fell backwards after I shot and I actually was on the floor looking through the back of the backboard from out of bounds when it went through.

Our city has become a rubber stamp for development, ... We bend over backwards to welcome developers. I think if we did have someone on the City Council who is somewhat of an environmental activist, that would be a beautiful thing.

Martin's shot was like a light bulb coming on for us. We're a backwards team. You'd like for your defense to get your offense going but we're the opposite. When we make shots, that gets our defense going.

Tim Jackson

The dealer is still bending over backwards to sell the car and could even be taking a loss on the deal. It is a tremendous buying opportunity if you are in the market for two cars.

We've gone continuously backward while the need has gone continuously forward. There's about 225,000 people who qualify for our help and our services and we have about 16 or 17 attorneys, depending on the day.

We've gone backwards from where we were yesterday on some very important work rules.

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.

What worries me the most is a slip backward becoming a spiral downward. Jobs are the linchpin of both consumer confidence and consumer spending. We can't sustain many more losses like this without that downward spiral getting started. This is the kind of data that could make the Fed think about easing again.

Kathy Baker

I've heard that kind of weird backward compliment often - 'She's so talented, but not pretty.'

Sugar Ray Leonard

I learned to run backwards from Muhammad Ali. He told me about running backwards because you try to imitate everything you do in the ring, so sometimes you back up. So you have to train your legs to go backwards.

Vladimir Putin

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

Mark Helprin

My father was famous for his photographic memory. He was in the OSS. They trained him to be captured on purpose and to read upside down and backwards and commit to memory every document in Germany he saw as he was being interrogated - every schedule on every wall. So, that photographic memory somehow made its way to me when I was young.

Guy Laliberte

Me? I'm going to grow backwards and be a kid again.

Horst Faas

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.

What's really interesting is that most online retailers have forward integration, whereas this seems like a backwards integration play. Barnes & Noble already has a direct relationship with the customer and now they're trying to get further into the supply chain,

We have to go back to those mighty precious values we've left behind. We have to go back and look and see to remember the battles we've fought ... looking backward to help us move forward.

We started rehearsing this backwards ... so that once the students were on the spot, they would be more confident with that.

Ozzie Smith

There are some guys that come off bad, but sometimes those people need you to come off like that. Sometimes they force you to come off like that, because you may tell them four or five times to go on, and they'll come back with their cap turned backwards and try again. Those are all tricks of the trade.