Every food I choose to eat helps me become more conscious of how it either moves me forward to my fab weight or backward to my flab weight.
During ‘Saturday Night Fever’ at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can’t do them so I ended up on my ass followed by the most unsightly backward roll out of it, followed by the cast falling over in laughter and a good portion of the audience too.
Your lower back contains numerous muscles. One group, called the erector spinae, attaches to your spinal column at different points along your back, allowing you to bend it forward and backward and from side to side. Toning these muscles helps prevent back pain, and it also tightens and firms your entire lower back.
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.
Winning times in the New York City Marathon have not dropped all that much over the years, but rather U.S. runners went backward. In 1983, there were 267 U.S. men who broke 2:20 in a marathon, and by 2000 that number was down to 27.
We are a heterogeneous society. We have to accept that. Growth has to be such that the most backward sections also benefit from it. Otherwise, it will be a very imbalanced growth.
Seeing outward is equivalent to looking backward in time because the telescope’s mirror is capturing primeval light… galaxies that existed before our time.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.
Technology does not run backward. Once a technical capability is out there, it is out there for good.
The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the ‘thinking men’ but among my simple ‘backward’ people.
Here’s an idea: How about just ‘Americans?’ That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our ‘separateness’ is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.
I’m not terribly technological. I’m awfully backward about iPads and BlackBerries and suchlike; I still have a great fondness for Teletext, and I clung onto my fax machine for as long as I could, but eventually you have to move with the times.
Of course the orders all converge backward in time, to different degrees.
You can’t look forward and backward at the same time.
When I was first learning songs, I’d have a favorite song, and I’d take the chords and twist them around. I’d learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song.
When I see the sort of mindless tax cuts for the wealthy, cuts to education, I just think we’ve got it exactly backward in this country.
Revolutions go not backward.
I can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you.
French courts are backward and politically correct, which is the height of stupidity.
You have to split, bend over backward, touch our toe to our heads to get recognized.
The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
I can’t stand people who are backward. I am honest, straightforward. I don’t like to pretend. And I will not change either.
I watch a little bit of tape to pick up small stuff, but I don’t try to pick apart my opponent’s game plan. I’m going to keep coming forward. I don’t ever take a step backward. I get hit, and I’m right back into range.
You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backward.
I feel that the law should ensure speedy justice to girls, be it from poor, rich or backward communities, and for this, the Modi government has made laws.
I’m always making Butcher Holler sound like the most backward part of the United States-and I think maybe it is.
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.
Life goes on, and one should look ahead and not backward.
We have a mantra at the Big Machine Label Group: Start with crazy and work backward.
In 2017, it’s discouraging that it seems like we’re going backward. And that’s not just because of Trump; that’s because we, as humans, condone discrimination; it’s a human issue. It’s part of something bigger.
Capitalism is a stupid system, a backward system.
I knew I was good because I was the only 14-year-old who could dunk backward.
Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
It’s weird, because American films in the 1930s and ’40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we’ve taken a step backward in this sense.
Why did Modi not declare his caste if he is from backward community? It makes clear that he is not from backward community.
I keep telling these millennials it’s all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don’t care about whether or not someone is gay. They don’t care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They’re going forward, not backward.
The real enemies of our life are the ‘oughts’ and the ‘ifs.’ They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious – You write backward Es!
I’m going to change my image – backward caps, the lot.
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
My fans are indulging in social welfare activities from time to time and have also been helping economically backward students.
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.
The surprise with which a detective novel concludes should set up tragic vibrations which run backward through the entire structure.
