Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
Aneurin Bevan

Since boredom advances and boredom is the root of all evil, no wonder, then, that the world goes backwards, that evil spreads. This can be traced back to the very beginning of the world. The gods were bored; therefore they created human beings.
Soren Kierkegaard

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.
Thom Mayne

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards.
Bill Lee

The Bishop moves diagonally forwards or backwards, to the extent of the Board.
Howard Staunton

The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
Anita Desai

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.
Roberto Benigni

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.
Thomas Huxley

The truth is everybody does it from time to time. People dial telephone numbers and they get a wrong number only to find that they've read the last two digits backwards. Everybody does it, but dyslexics have this tendency to a higher degree.
Bruce Jenner

To come up with the ending to a story and then work backwards is like tying your shoe with one hand only.
Donald McKay

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.
John Negroponte

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.
Bill Owens

We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.
Robert Mugabe

Well, I think he's right to notice that there is a difference in attitudes and even in the broadest sense of world view between Eastern Europe and Western Europe. Which is old and which is new is an interesting question, and I almost think that maybe he's got it backwards.
Robert Kagan

When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.
Bruce Jenner

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards.
Ryan Stiles

You might as well expect rivers to run backwards as any man born free to be contented penned up.
Chief Joseph