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«A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.»
Author: Anna Mary Robertson Moses
| About:
Hope,
Mankind,
Memory
| Keywords:
backward, backward and forward, look backward, painter, paints, paint a picture, pictures, recorded
«At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.»
«Commissions suit me. They set limits. Jean Marais dared me to write play in which he would not speak in the first act, would weep for joy in the second and in the last would fall backward down a flight of stairs.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Expectation,
Writers
| Keywords:
backward, Commissions, dared, down the stairs, first flight, flight, flight of stairs, jean, stairs, suit
«Diaper backward spells repaid. Think about it.»
«Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.»
«Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work of such sophistication, wit, and beauty that it increasingly seems to me that cartoon evolution is working backward. Comic strips are moving toward a primordial goo rather than away from it . . . Not only can comics be more than we're getting today. but the comics already have been more than we're getting today.»
Author: Bill Watterson
(Author)
| Keywords:
amazingly, backward, cartoon, cartoonist, cartoonists, cartoons, comic, comics, comic strip, Comic strips, early on, goo, increasingly, medium, primordial, sophistication
«Baseball is the only major sport that appears backward in a mirror»
«Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean, backward, crab, crabbed, crabs, crawling, In Search Of, operates, watched
«A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
across, acrostic, Alexandrian, Alexandrians, backward, backward and forward, forward, spells
«And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.»
Author: Robert Frost
| Keywords:
backward, backward and forward, forward, look backward, pride, Pride and, with pride
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