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  • ... commutative algebra is a lot like topology, only backwards.

    Math   Topology   Algebra  
  • The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

    Charles Eisenstein (2013). “The Ascent of Humanity: Civilization and the Human Sense of Self”, p.70, North Atlantic Books
  • There's lots of sides. The CD doesn't really create a mood. It creates more of a journey. It starts out with a simple bluegrass tune, sort of melancholy and sad, like "Lovin' and Lyin'," then it's sexy and there's some funny songs in there where I'm talking, like "Designated Drunk." There's a humor side, a sexy side, but there's also a pretty sad side, the country side. It's the backwards side of me!

    Sexy   Country   Song  
    Source: www.broadwayworld.com
  • I’ve been here before, dreaming myself backwards, among grappling hooks of light. True to the seasons, I’ve lived every word spoken. Did I walk into someone’s nightmare?

    Dream   Light   Hook  
    Yusef Komunyakaa (1998). “Thieves of Paradise”, p.14, Wesleyan University Press
  • A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

    Attitude   Men   Mind  
    "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Collected and Republished". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 2008.
  • So we can't go backwards, we can only go where the evolutionary trajectory is taking us and attune our ideas about ourselves and our existence to that course.

  • Paintings exist in the present tense, yet somehow, because of how it's structured, it can move backwards through time as well.

    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • One of the uncovenanted benefits of living for a long time is that, having so many more dead than living friends, death can appear as a step backwards into the joyous past.

    Past   Long   Steps  
    Storm Jameson (2011). “Journey from the North, Volume 2: Autobiography of Storm Jameson”, p.402, A&C Black
  • There is a close relationship between a house full of possessions and a heart full of desires, between a cluttered closet and a crowded schedule, between having no place to put possessions and having no priorities for our life. These are precious clues. They remind us to slow down, to live in the present, to reduce the desires that drain our vitality, to clarify priorities so we can give our time and attention to what matters most. Tragically, in the press of modern life, we have managed to get backwards one of life's most vital truths: people are to be loved; things are to be used.

  • The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."

    Mean   Doors   Delay  
    Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2013). “You Can If You Think You Can”, p.4, Simon and Schuster
  • Whose yesterdays look backwards with a smile.

    Edward Young (1821). “Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality”, p.31
  • Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In Zen we approach everything backwards or inside out.

  • Maybe you could go backwards and forwards at the same time, but it wasn't easy. You had to want to.

    Want   Easy   Backwards  
    Sarah Dessen (2006). “The Truth About Forever”, p.179, Penguin
  • The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.

    Moving   Boards   Bishops  
    Howard Staunton (1847). “The chess-player's handbook ...: with frontispiece”, p.5
  • Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

    Jobs   Might   Waste  
    Ian Fleming (1961). “gilt-edged bonds”
  • The Republican base is now made up of religious and neoconservative ideologues, and the uneducated white underclass with a token person of color or two up front on TV to obscure the all-white, all reactionary all backward — there-is-no-global-warming — rube reality. Actual conservatives, let alone the educated classes, have long since fled.

    "Why Are the Republicans Such Anti-Obama Liars?". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 01, 2009.
  • A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.

    Memories   Past   Brain  
  • Yeah, like Bizarro Superman, Superman's exact opposite, who lives in the backwards Bizarro world. Up is down, down is up, he says hello when he leaves, goodbye when he arrives.

  • Write backwards. Start from the feeling you want the audience to have at the end and then ask "How might that happen?" continually, until you have a beginning.

    Writing   Feelings   Want  
    "Top artists reveal how to find creative inspiration" by Polly Stenham, Guy Garvey, Tamara Rojo, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Fyfe Dangerfield, Martha Wainright, Anthony Neilson, Rupert Goold, Isaac Julien, Lucy Prebble, Jasmin Vardimon, Sunand Prasad, Susan Philipsz, Akram Khan, Polly Morgan, Kate Royal, Ian Rickson, Olivia Williams, Martin Parr, Wayne McGregor, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2012.
  • The sky is falling. No, I'm tipping over backwards.

    Funny   Fall   Humor  
  • Life really went backwards. My parents lost everything, all their savings, because we had to run from the Nigerian side to the Biafran side. We were Igbos.

    Running   Parent   Saving  
  • Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.

  • It caused more problems as a young kid, because the simple process of perceiving words on a piece of paper was hard for me. Many people think dyslexic people see things backwards. They don't see things backwards.

    Kids   Simple   Thinking  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.
  • I think there is something about being described and having your abilities described as something definable. I was diagnosed at about six, when a teacher couldn't understand how I could be a bright girl and yet couldn't read yet. I did that whole backwards letters thing. I used to sit in the same place when I did homework because I remembered that B's went towards the window and D's went away from it.

    Girl   Teacher   Thinking  
    Source: therumpus.net
  • On top of all that, look at this guy? I mean he's a idiot, he's 7 feet of pure idiot. You put his brain in a parakeet... zing! It'll fly backwards.

    Mean   Wrestling   Feet  
  • It seems almost backwards to me that my music seems the more emotional outlet, and the art stuff seems more about ideas.

    Art   Emotional   Ideas  
    Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 5, 2001.
  • The only time I had what you would call life-threatening fear was when I was on the Moon. Towards the end of our stay, we got excited and we were going to do the high jump, and I jumped and fell over backwards. That was a scary time, because if the backpack got broken, I would have had it. But everything held together.

    Moon   Broken   Scary  
  • The first movie I saw - and I don't know if it influenced me - was Ben Hur. We watched it outside in a corn field, and it ran backwards. So the first movie I ever saw was Ben Hur, backwards.

    Corn   Fields   Saws  
    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • I feel like that when I read certain feminist blogs or feminist magazines, where it's not even so much we've gone backwards, it's that I'm bored. Or it's like, oh wow, kids today are still dealing with the same exact issues.

    Kids   Bored   Feminist  
    Source: www.elle.com
  • Right at the core, the mainstream has it backwards. Warren Buffett often quips that the first rule of investing is to not lose money, and the second rule is to not forget the first rule. Yet few investors approach the world with such a strict standard of risk avoidance.

    Risk   Investing   World  
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