Looking Back Quotes

Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.
Ron Perlman

Life, Age, Time

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.
Junior Seau

Life, Time, Excuses

I'm not a great one for looking back.
Ian Botham

Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
Wade Boggs

Moving, Baseball, Through

I've always been very impatient. At age 10 I frankly found life boring, and I can remember age 9 having the awful thought, as it seems now looking back on it, A war! That should liven things up a bit!
Roger Bannister

It's so funny looking back, but my so-called overnight success actually took 15 years. I remember when I didn't have any money, and my only car was mom's Hyundai.
Criss Angel

Funny, Success, Money

The Princess's so-called 'time and space speech' at the end of '93 about a year after the formal separation, looking back on it it's called her retirement from public life but we've seen in fact it's nothing of the kind.
Anthony Holden

Life, Time, End

Looking back, I imagine I was always writing. Twaddle it was too. But better far write twaddle or anything, anything, than nothing at all.
Katherine Mansfield

Nothing, Writing, Far

Looking back, I think that's why I did music. I'd get home from school and the house would be so quiet.
Dido Armstrong

Music, Home, School

But looking back, the fact was that I had a couple of big hits too quickly and it was simply too much for an introvert like me to handle.
Paula Cole

Big, Fact, Looking

Looking back, there is nothing wrong with that peace, love and equality that the hippies espoused. In many ways, we have regressed because they were into organic food, back to nature, make love not war, be good to all men, share and share alike - which is what many are talking about now.
Imelda Staunton

Love, Peace, Nature

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
John C. Calhoun

Nothing, Regret, Looking

I don't like looking back.
Tommy Shaw

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
Luke Ford

Looking, Opinions, Careless

When I stopped touring in the early '80s for a few years, it was a mistake looking back. I lost touch with my audience in a way and I think that was a bad career move.
Bryan Ferry

Bad, Lost, Career

I have to tell everyone that when I finish a film and it goes out and is released, I never look at my films again. I don't like looking back. I don't even like talking about 'em! So I'm really digging back in my memory because I don't like to sit and look at my films again.
Jim Jarmusch

Tell, Everyone, Again

The first time I made myself up, I was looking at my reflection in the mirror and it wasn't me looking back. It allowed me to do things I couldn't do as myself. I found out how powerful that was and how much that can mean to an actor.
Rick Baker

Time, Powerful, Mean

I was never looking back in regret. I never thought, Oh, why didn't I become an actress? or Why did I just go paddling along after John? I've always walked along right by his side, and he's always supported everything I do.
June Carter Cash

Everything, Regret, Thought

The way I am, I like to look forward instead of looking back.
Jamie Redknapp

Forward, Looking, Instead

Looking back on those games, I probably hustled out of position as much as I hustled into position since I really never had any real training. I was working on instincts alone.
Jim Evans

Alone, Real, Working

Looking back now at my first World Cup experience, I didn't know what was going on. I was a newbie and I had no idea what to expect.
Cobi Jones

Experience, Idea, Looking

No, I tell you what I like is having the play close after a decent run and looking back on it and saying, yes, I did that, and wasn't it wonderful? Because while you're doing it, it is really tough. It is so hard.
Mary Tyler Moore

Saying, Hard, Play

And whenever I'm in a situation where I'm wearing the same as 600 other people and doing the same thing as 600 other people, looking back, I always found ways to make myself different, whether it be having a red lining inside of my jacket, having red shoes, it hasn't changed.
Jeremy Irons

Different, Same, Looking

As years passed away I have formed the habit of looking back upon that former self as upon another person, the remembrance of whose emotions has been a solace in adversity and added zest to the enjoyment of prosperity.
Simon Newcomb

Self, Person, Adversity

When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.
Kirk Douglas

After, Start, Looking

I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
Zachary Quinto

Find, Said, Looking

Looking back, I understand that I was teaching myself to write.
Mary Wesley

Understand, Write, Looking

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
Bill Griffith

Time, Character, Thought

Even if a minefield or the abyss should lie before me, I will march straight ahead without looking back.
Zhu Rongji

Lie, Before, Looking

When I was a child, I had posters of James Dean in my room. I was a big admirer of his work and was fascinated by him living on the edge. Looking back, my life was kind of the same.
Boris Becker

Life, Work, Him

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