Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlie Kaufman

It's about this guy who finds out that his girlfriend of two years has had this surgical procedure which has erased him from her memory. So he's freaked out and trying to live with it and he can't, so he decides to have the same procedure. Most of the movie takes place in his brain as she's being erased, and you see their whole relationship, moment-by-moment, backwards from this sort of bad end to the better beginning. Halfway through, as the memories start getting better, he decides he doesn't want the procedure.

James Gray

It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

They cover for each other if one makes a mistake, ... Karen knows every song he's going to sing backward and forward. They work in concert. They blend together beautifully.

They (Brown and Mayor Oscar Goodman) bent over backwards to make it work. (The city officials) were extraordinarily accommodating and it's been a wonderful experience.

It is vital to create a conducive environment that enables backward integration with innovative work at the Industry level. We need to create the best regulatory framework to facilitate the fruits of industrial research reach into the market place.

Pope Francis

It is not possible to go backwards. We must go forward. Always forward.

Madeleine Albright

History is written backwards but lived forwards.

As we secure and shut down vulnerabilities, we know that terrorists will seek new ways to carry out their agenda. Rather than looking backward at yesterday's threats, we are building upon what we have already accomplished to meet evolving threats.

James Mangold

As we got to know John and June, what we needed them to understand was that the people they were now was not the people they were then, ... And there was the challenge of combining the grand wisdom and spirituality of these elder legends backwards into the young people they were, as they were learning those lessons. To tell how they got to be here, we had to go to those darker places, and not temper it.

As much as we've struggled, I've really enjoyed this team. They've never quit. But within the team, they've got to learn to get over the difficult times. Every time we get to a difficult point, they go backward instead of forward.

Ray Charles

Don't go backwards - you've already been there.

Melissa Marr

Going backwards is never an option.

Clearly if the person is sick, I think you want to bend over backwards to compensate.

Scott Wilson

The city of Houston bent over backwards for these people, and I am glad we did it. But now we are absorbing some of their problems.

Robert Frost

The dog barks backwards without getting up; I can remember when he was a pup

Neil Strauss

All this stuff is backward engineered from what works. Nobody sat at a computer and invented these techniques. They watched guys who are successful and broke it down to what works.

All of a sudden (in the second half) we started to play vertical, where now we're playing forward basketball rather than looking to throw the ball backward and going side to side. We got our players out running.

John Updike

The good ending dismisses us with a touch of ceremony and throws a backward light of significance over the story just read. It makes it, as they say, or unmakes it. A weak beginning is forgettable, but the end of a story bulks in the reader's mind like the giant foot in a foreshortened photograph.

Terry Zwigoff

The first scene I ever shot for 'Louie Bluie,' on that first day, I had never seen the camera before. I didn't know where to put it. I just knew what was strong about these guys and what I wanted to capture, so I tried to work backward from there and figure it out. Trial and error. Hopefully I got a little bit better at it.

All he has served to do by doing this in a backwards fashion is harden the U.S. administration's position,

The horse went over backward once and came down. He got his left foot out of the stirrup but he couldn't get his right foot out in time.

Shawn Mendes

The first year I started hockey, I didn't know how to skate, so I got on the ice with all of the hockey players, and we were doing drills where we had to go backwards in figure eights. And I could not skate, and I just kept falling on my butt, and it was very embarrassing.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards.

Dick Vermeil

We scaled things down as the game went on because (quarterback) Trent (Green) was getting hit back there. We went backward in what we could call.

The judges learned the lesson about self-representation too late. They bent over backwards for him.

Julie Walters

This isn't what we thought would be the outcome today. Today we kind of took a step backwards in our execution. When we create opportunities for good teams, they are going to finish them.

The U.S. right now is bending over backwards to engage China on a wide variety of issues.

Kendrick Lamar

We all get distracted, the question is, would you bounce back or bounce backwards?

Thom Yorke

When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet