Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 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.

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.

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.'

He's anxious, he's straining to get out there, and we think if he gets out there he's going to go backwards and hurt himself. We're just trying to give him a little more work and see how he responds.

George Bush has just taken a giant 30-year step backwards in terms of fuel economy for vehicles. He's actually loosened up the rules under the guise of tightening them. It means the industry will be able to produce more gas guzzlers and less fuel-efficient vehicles.

Erich Honecker

Always forwards, never backwards.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bruno Mars

You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.

He pitched backwards to me: first the sliders, then the fastball.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.