Famous Quotes & Sayings

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Clint Hurdle

The bigger issue is the first-pitch fastballs they are squaring up. He might have to start pitching backwards (by starting batters with breaking pitches) and doing some things different off the mound.

The NHL on OLN is a marquee property, ... We wanted someone who knew the game backwards and forwards, and Mike stood out as the man for the job. His experience and his passion for the game are going to be key as we present this new-generation hockey season on OLN.

Winston Churchill

The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

This is a very long way from a consensus document. It's a giant step backwards and ignores all the negative lessons of the 1970s oil shocks.

Ron Clarke

This is a very important project for us. We spent a heck of a lot of money. . . . My client has bent over backwards to do everything that the staff has requested, Vote Yes on Preservation Pointe.

I want to see the openness of county government become institutionalized. If it is institutionalized, it is very difficult to take backwards steps. Open government extends beyond the concept of letting the public know what is going on. It will result in better decisions.

It's still the right thing to do because you don't want to be going backwards (on a handoff) to go forward, that's why you use the quarterback sneak and they did a nice job of stopping us,

Kenny Rogers

It's so funny what this song did, ... I went to a movie the other night and when we came out there were a bunch of kids -- around 14 or 15 years old -- with their hats on backwards and sloppy clothes. They were so excited to see Kenny Rogers. They had heard the music before but it wasn't cool until now.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We will bend over backwards for our customers. We want people to come to Forest Hills and have reason to come back. That's just good business sense.

Billy Gillispie

We got a good whipping tonight. They played harder than us. They played much, much, much smarter than us. Give them all the credit. We took a step backwards tonight.