Famous Quotes & Sayings

some people at the State Department and they bent over backwards to make sure that doesn't happen again.

My mother, she would bend over backwards for anyone. She is loved at her job, by her kids. My mother doesn't deserve this whatsoever.

Richard Jefferson

It felt really good after (Wednesday's) practice. Then I tried to do more stuff Thursday when we were still in San Antonio and it went backwards a little bit. . . . It was my fault, I tried to do too much.

Robby Gordon

It doesn't have to be me, but if somebody thinks I did them wrong then-bam-you're around backwards and a lap down before you know it. Hopefully I've raced everyone clean so far this year, and I can have a good top-10 finish. I'm just going to do the best job that I can in qualifying and make the smoothest, smartest decisions in the race that I possibly can and score the best result.

I?d be surprised if -- even if they include a compatibility mode -- it could do both a/g and g at the same time. I could see some interaction problems with n if you also want to support b/g. My guess is they are betting on equipment replacement, not necessarily backwards compatibility to existing systems.

Paul Davis

He'll bend over backwards for a teammate. He'll do whatever it takes. I mean, he's a senior on the scout team. He's busting his butt every day. You don't find that much around the country.

Mitch Leigh

If one wants to go on living, one must evolve. Before, when we composed, we would start by a series of music themes. Once created, we would hire writers and lyricists to make up the text and the story line. I was the first to do this backwards with 'Man of La Mancha.'

Greg Chappell

I think it (batting) is probably more established than the bowling. But we have got some young players in the one-day squad. You've got to keep moving on at all stages. If you are standing still, you are going backwards really.

But Fidgety Phil / He won't sit still; / He wriggles / And giggles, / and then, I declare, / Swings backwards and forwards, / And tilts up his chair.

Mark Recchi

I thought we were turning the corner. We had a good stretch of games, and we've taken a little step backwards now. We have to find a way to get back again.

I think the judge really bent over backwards to be try and be fair and have an understanding.

Alafair Burke

I was downright obnoxious. In second grade, we had some program where we kept a public list of all the books we read. I think it even included the number of pages. In my nerdy mind, having the longest and most impressive list was somehow going to make up for the fact that I couldn't climb a rope or do a backwards summersault in PE.

He's been playing with it the last two weeks, and it really took a step backwards where it's going to make him unavailable. You just hope to protect Mike and keep him healthy and hope that things go well.

Mark Zandi

Given the recent surge in energy prices and higher medical costs, many will not be made whole by the increase. The increase is backwards looking; it represents inflation over the last year. In the near term, inflation will be greater.

If Williams want to do a deal we are open to discussion. Jenson is worth a lot to both teams. We wouldn't be squabbling over him if he were not, but his value is impossible to quantify. Jenson has already started the process of trying to get out of his Williams contract. There has been a number of letters going backwards and forwards and also discussions.

Don King

He has blinding hand speed and great dexterity. He can punch going forwards and backwards which is the mark of a true champion. There's no one like him in the world today.

Whatever they have in there is what they will be judged on. We're not going to have time to go backwards and forwards. We have to do it like a tender process.

We're obviously not there yet. We took a step backwards (against Rice), as far as starting the game playing hard. It all comes back to me. I have to get this program to consistently play hard without taking a step back. We had it going for four or five games, and then we took a step back.

Obviously, we're not there yet. We took a step backwards (Wednesday), as far as playing hard, and that all comes back to the coach.

She is a very bright woman who knows public policy backwards and forwards and who has reached out to a diverse constituency, especially upstate. I'm very impressed.

Alan Hunter

Lee County is perhaps a spectacular example of a backwards market. In most markets jobs come first and then housing. In Florida and particularly Lee County, the retirees come first and then the jobs and retail.

We're just going to have to work backwards from where he was last and wherever he's been, ... He's been somewhere, and we have to go to those places and process those places and see what evidence may be at those places.

Mark Richardson

Let's look at the past 20 years - maybe you had a lot of catching up to do. You're looking backwards as your reason for not getting a settlement this time.

Let's just look forward and not backwards and see how we can get it done now, versus why we haven't been able to see eye to eye thus far.

What I do know is our state and country is currently backwards and upside-down, and we all are to blame in one fashion or another.

When the record industry is identifying particular pieces of music on Napster, they're pointing to specific files and where they see a file name. But clever users of Napster are doing things like writing the name backwards or putting it in code.

Cassandra Clare

I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.

Drew Goddard

In the 'Buffy' room, it was never about a plot twist, ever. It was always about, 'Tell the story, tell the characters, complicate their lives, make things get worse,' but we never worked backwards from the plot, and it was always a great lesson.

Andy Reid

I thought they played hard, but I thought there were too many mistakes. We had way too many penalties. You can't go backwards in the National Football League and expect to win football games.

I think we just need to take a step backwards and wait a while on this proposal.

We are going backwards in our view. Things are getting worse in this country for the working people.

When the door opened he went backwards and fell flat on his back,

John Irving

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.