Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brad Goreski

Everybody can remember outfits like Celine Dion's backwards Dior tuxedo... these 'worst' dresses become part of pop culture, and we keep referencing them.

Berkeley Breathed

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

Antony Beevor

It is this compulsion to look backwards at a time of crisis because one's got no idea of what lies ahead. There is a notion of security that somehow it must resemble the past. It's never going to. Just because we muddled through in the past doesn't mean we can automatically muddle through in the future.

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

You can never know what's in people's hearts, but it's not fair that we're going backwards in time. We should be, as educators, embracing diversity and provide a model of what the world is like for the students so they can learn together and play together. That's important.

Neil Diamond

the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing it. The songs have to come first and inspire everything else. If Rick did anything for me, he did that. He brought my focus back to the songs and made me feel comfortable about not worrying about how the recording of that particular song would be.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

We didn't make any progress this game as a team so we're pretty disappointed. The previous two games we made a bit of progress but we took a step backwards in this one. It's a bitter feeling. Back to the drawing board.

Stephon Marbury

We didn't have that sense of urgency that we've been playing with during this winning streak. This definitely feels like a step backwards with the way we've been playing.

Jesse Williams

As an actor, you want to be able to move your character forward into new ground, but also it's really interesting to go backwards and unpeel those layers and the interesting elements of what your character is and what informs the decisions that you make so that you can have as much meat to work with.

Jeremy Bulloch

Other projects later this year, but I think it's going to be a very very busy year this year with Star Wars and the re-release, so I'm sort of running about going backwards and forwards to America, Japan, Mexico. So there will be a lot of things to do.

Claudio Ranieri

The result was a fair one. Villarreal was better than us, especially in the first half. It's a step backwards but we've got to keep battling and think of our next game,

They've all been trying to bend over backwards to make sure we're OK. We'll have to wait and see; they've got a lot to do.

David Del Tredici

A maverick feels like he has no choice however difficult his choice of expression. In my case, it was going backwards into tonality. It seemed so wrong. The idea that progress is going into the past in a new way is very strange, even though there are precedents.