Top 100 Going Back To Quotes
#1. There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for one founding book and, thereafter, no more books.
J.M. Coetzee
#2. How ironic that returning to a raw and ancient form of worship is now seen as new and even cutting edge. We are simply going back to a vintage form of worship which has been around for as long as the church has been in existence.
Dan Kimball
#3. What I learned was that the more you commit to the process and the more you trust God for increase in every area of your life, the more God allows the scales to tip in your favor until one day the momentum is so tremendous that there is no going back to the life you knew. You
John W. Gray III
#4. Whether you're a mafia guy or in advertising, you always end up going back to your family.
Jerry Della Femina
#5. I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
Hans Ulrich Obrist
#6. It was easy to understand why Sala didn't mind sharing; neither of us ever went there except to change clothes or sleep. Night after night I would sit uselessly at Al's, drinking myself into a stupor because I couldn't stand the idea of going back to the apartment.
Hunter S. Thompson
#7. The Feegles believe that they are dead. This world is so nice, they argue, that they must have been really good in a past life and then died and ended up here. Appearing to die here means merely going back to the Last World, which they believe is rather dull.
Terry Pratchett
#8. When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.
Marcus Aurelius
#9. I don't think there's any heroism anymore. The heroism has to be created out of the medium itself. Going back to the idea of television, all the current heros are sports heros because the medium creates the heros. There's nothing essentially heroic about being a good pitcher.
Robert Ashley
#10. The important thing for me as an artist is to keep going back to the page and doing what I do.
Matthew Quick
#11. So many people have said to me that when you become a school parent, it is like going back to school yourself. Some of those insecurities come out and are projected through your child.
Liane Moriarty
#12. Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
Angela Davis
#13. I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#14. Already we're seeing graduates of U.S. higher education going back to their home countries and contributing to societies there, where in the past they would have stayed in the U.S. and built new companies here. We have to have immigration reform that allows talented foreigners to become Americans.
David Malpass
#15. I have a sense of urgency, of time. I am a woman and am always running between work, doctors' appointments, school meetings, filling up the fridge, then going back to work. Like everyone who combines professional and family life, I am always doing several things at the same time.
Segolene Royal
#16. Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.
Stephen Richards
#17. With me, traveling for work is arriving at the airport, checking into the hotel, leaving the hotel the next morning at 4 or 5 to do something like 'The Jimmy and Jackie Captain Crazy Morning Zoo,' doing a bunch of those in a row, then going back to the hotel, and then finally going to the club.
Gilbert Gottfried
#18. My dad's side of the family ... they're a real bizarre bunch, going back to the original colonies. That side's got a real tough strain of alcoholism. It goes back generations and generations, so that you can't remember when there was a sober grandfather.
Sam Shepard
#19. In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.
Noam Chomsky
#20. Once you've grown up in space, moving on means moving out, not going back to Earth. Nobody wants to be a groundpounder.
Gregory Benford
#21. I'm considering going back to school to become a registered dance therapist.
Carrie Ann Inaba
#22. I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
Jack Wild
#23. Then there's going to be another project I am involved with, in fact, I'm going back to film it next week. It's a game for the Internet called Advance Warriors, and my character is Max, who is blind, but he has special powers. It will be a new game played on the Internet.
Jeremy Bulloch
#24. I looked at 73 climate models going back to 1979 and every single one predicted more warming than happened in the real world.
John Christy
#25. I came from God, and I'm going back to God, and I won't have any gaps of death in the middle of my life.
George MacDonald
#26. If you are making a script based on a book it can be frustrating going back to the source novel, because you're turning the story into a totally different thing; the narrative of film is different from that of a book.
Clive Owen
#27. The whole acting game can sometimes be a bit false, and you meet a lot of people in it for the fame - so there's nothing I love more than going back to Essex.
Michelle Dockery
#28. I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.
Keyshawn Johnson
#29. Even on the drum level, it's all about stating your theme, going back to certain things that need to be emphasized, not doing fills for the sake of doing fills.
John Otto
#30. Photoshop came out of painting, and now it's going back to painting.
David Hockney
#31. Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
Bill De Blasio
#32. Congressional mistakes have dramatically increased immigration through a series of what I believe were ill-advised actions going back to 1965 when the basic notions of our immigration laws were revised. In 1990, Congress opened the floodgates by passing a 35-percent increase in legal immigration.
Ronald Reagan
#33. She kept me from living in back alleys and going back to drugs. I paid her back, but I owed her a lot more than the money. Emily saved my life." Buck Jamison in Goodbye Emily
Michael Murphy
#35. I guess, on my list, going back to some old American stuff and British stuff that I used to love in the '80s, would be a British show called Dad's Army, which recently just turned into a movie.
Rhys Darby
#36. Women will be saved by going back to that role that God has chosen for them. Ladies, if the hair on the back of your neck stands up it is because you are fighting your role in the scripture.
Mark Driscoll
#37. When you're going back to school, you want something fresh and new, and perfume is the best way to do that.
Bethany Mota
#38. Could we betray our parents by going back to them?
Karen Russell
#39. No, my step-daughter just opened a theatre school for children, I have another daughter who works in the record industry and another who is going back to collage and I have two little ones at home.
Rosanne Cash
#40. She knew right then no one's mind would change. They were going back to Mars.
Andy Weir
#41. I'm always going back to New York for Broadway workshops or reading. So I always keep my foot in the door: I'm always on the lookout for the next Broadway show.
Katherine McNamara
#42. Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.
Julio Cortazar
#43. I've flown in space four times now, so it's going to be hard in that respect, but I certainly look forward to going back to Earth. I've been up here for a really long time and sometimes, when I think about it, I feel like I've lived my whole life up here.
Scott Kelly
#44. the past is a liar
full of promises it can't keep
but like a foolish first love
you keep going back to it
Jennifer Alex Oliveira
#45. If you decide to tell a kid that looks don't matter, she can prove you wrong every day. Because they see it everywhere. That is age-old, going back to the Greeks, but now we're bombarded nonstop.
Catherine Hardwicke
#46. I am the one who needs rescuing. Save me ( ... ) Save me from going back to being the man I was before I came here. Save me from all the years of loneliness I'll have to endure without you in my arms. Save me from spending the rest of my life longing for a woman I can never have.
Teresa Medeiros
#47. Are you really going to let a couple of stupid kids keep you from going back to school? I know you've been enjoying it. Don't give them that power over yot. Don't give them the satisfaction.
R.J. Palacio
#48. Road - tomorrow?" Myron asked. "Am I going back to the abbey?"
"Better - you're going to be a hero.
Michael J. Sullivan
#49. I don't think I'll ever escape the fact that I don't belong anywhere in particular. I've often dreamed about going back to Nigeria, but that's a very romantic notion. It's a hideous country to go to in reality.
Hugo Weaving
#50. There have always been hucksters, cranks and populists who see a brief rise in American politics, going back to William Jennings Bryan at the turn of the century. The body politic has a way of expelling these invaders.
Joseph Rago
#51. It's such a weird thing to try to plan a baby around a TV season. There's a three-month or four-month window in the summertime to have a baby and hang out with it a little bit before hopefully going back to work, so we were just very lucky.
Erinn Hayes
#52. In France, you have 900 years of romantic love going back to the troubadours and minstrels that wrote stories of Lancelot and Guinevere. You have gallantry at the highest level.
Marilyn Yalom
#53. I revise a lot while I'm drafting, often going back to the beginning again and again to revise because I've changed massive things about the story. By the time I get to the end of a first draft, I've been through the beginning lots of times.
Holly Black
#54. I will never be good at the oboe. No matter what happens, I will never be good at it because I just don't have that much time on my hands. I don't have the gift of going back to being a child and having my brain develop around this instrument.
Lola Kirke
#55. I'm getting fat ... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much ... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
Yao Ming
#56. I had a hard time going back to school after T2. I really didn't want to go to private school.
Edward Furlong
#57. The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.
Ray Stevenson
#58. Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.
Assata Shakur
#59. It's going back to old school, the way it was done and I'm finding out there is something different, a little interesting. There is something just a little fresh about it because I haven't seen it done like that in a little while. I'm embracing it, you know.
George Tillman Jr.
#60. And tell me you love me, come back and haunt me oh and I rush to the start..running in circles, chasing tails, and coming back as we are. Nobody said it was easy, it's such a shame for us to part.. no-one ever said it would be so hard, I'm going back to the start
Coldplay
#61. Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.
Ram Dass
#62. Going back to your ex is like taking back your spit from the ground.
M.F. Moonzajer
#63. There's sort of a progression going back to the fifties: Bubbles, Boom Boom, and Blaze begat Bambi, Candy, and Jewel, who begat Sunshine, Brandy, and Cinnamon, who begat Amber, Brittany, and Brie, who begat Reagan, Morgan, and Madison. Madison is a stripper name.
Christopher Moore
#64. I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.
Mark Oliver Everett
#65. I only had one thought as the blackness closed in, drawing me back to my beloved earth. I was going back to the life I'd known before, the life I'd missed and longed for ... but there in Xavier's arms, I was already home.
Alexandra Adornetto
#66. Karma, which originally meant "action" or "deed" in Sanskrit, is about this system of reviewing our previous deeds and choosing differently. Karma doesn't get back to us unexpectedly. We get back to karma for our highest good. It's like going back to where we bookmarked.
Akemi G
#67. Going back to legalistic roots contaminates the blood of Jesus.
Sherry K. White
#68. 'Rick' never really fit. I tried for 18 years to make it work, and no one wanted to call me Rick. It should always have been Ricky. That's what it always should have been, so I'm going back to it.
Ricky Schroder
#69. The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
Vin Diesel
#70. Americans - not just starting thirty years ago but going back to the beginning, when we were rebelling against King George - we've always been of two minds about the government, which is why the framers wrote the Constitution the way they did.
William J. Clinton
#71. When someone dies, it feels like the hole in your gum when a tooth falls out. You can chew, you can eat, you
have plenty of other teeth, but your tongue keeps going back to that empty place, where all the nerves are still a little raw.
Jodi Picoult
#72. No cardinal or essential doctrine is altered by any textual variant that has plausibility of going back to the original. The evidence for that has not changed to this day.
Lee Strobel
#73. Especially on television, it's not so much a patriarchy; it always seems that there's a smart, strong woman calling the shots, and her doofus husband. In the sitcom world, it's almost a cliche that the women have the common sense, going back to 'The Honeymooners.'
Jake Weber
#74. I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
Michael Connelly
#75. In other words, musicians know that going back to the Spoonful, what we were doing was not copying.
John Sebastian
#76. We are in a very strange way going back to the mentality of the time when Americans went in covered wagons. I imagine they had a piece of cloth, and the piece of furniture they carried with them meant to be a good piece of wood, and sturdy. We're going back to that.
Emilio Pucci
#77. When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show.
Angus Young
#78. Sunny - If you can explain yourself before someone kicks your ass, count your blessings and give some thought to going back to the priesthood.
Nick - I would, but now-a-days that vow of chastity might be a problem.
J.A. Dennam
#79. I really love going back home. I think going back to a nice, relaxed little town is the best way to do it.
Shawn Mendes
#80. Women were going back to work, they were assuming their own power. They didn't have time to sit under the dryer.
Vidal Sassoon
#81. I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.
Alberto Manguel
#82. I'm going back to Russia. That's where the money is, and the power. And, of course, the ladies.
Dorothy Dunnett
#83. I have had this longstanding interest in going back to school to get a Ph.D. in art history. I was especially interested in exploring this idea of the ecstatic impulse in an artist.
Jandy Nelson
#84. Apart from Arsenal and Barcelona, I don't see myself playing anywhere else. I will definitely be going back (to Arsenal) whenever I have time to watch games and to see the guys ... and if there is one place to go back to (to play), it is Arsenal for sure.
Cesc Fabregas
#85. I don't know why I just remembered this, and I haven't told anybody this, but we were shooting in Canyon de Chelly and we were so far up the canyon. Once we were up there, we were up there. There was no going back to your trailers.
James Badge Dale
#86. It took me five months to lose twenty pounds and it took me hours to gain it back. I mean it was magical how quickly it all happened. Going back to my poor eating habits after having really good eating habits my stomach was a little unsettled.
Mila Kunis
#87. The history of screenwriting - of what we do - is more than 100 years old. It's thousands of years old, going back to Sophocles and Euripedes. I believe the only - the only - separation for being a dramatist is reading drama.
John Logan
#88. That's a part of me going back to what I used to do.
Janet Jackson
#89. I'm always going back to one thing - my family ... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.
Lou Duva
#90. I was always playing the Hammond Organ back to front even during the days of the Nice, going back to 1968. Really what I was doing there, was choosing notes at random and trying to make some sense of them, improvising back to front.
Keith Emerson
#91. The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.
Martin McGuinness
#92. But all over Ohio - all over America - men and women are going back to work with the pride of building something stamped 'Made in America.'
Ted Strickland
#93. We always have dinner together as a family - even when our schedules are totally hectic. I inherited that from my mom, who would come home from her ad agency job to eat with us before going back to work.
Kim Raver
#94. Certainly going back to Sherlock Holmes we have a tradition of forensic science featured in detective stories.
Jeffery Deaver
#95. I've been a big believer in musicians turned actor, going back to Sinatra winning the Oscar for 'From Here To Eternity.' David Bowie in 'Man Who Fell to Earth,' Kris Kristofferson's been great in a bunch of films. Liza Minnelli, Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, I thought was great in 'Precious.'
Peter Berg
#96. I know that I wouldn't mind going back to work if I could find the right script and the right crew to work with.
Mary Badham
#97. Today is a brand new day. A day of change, of promise, of creativity, of kindness, and of love. I'm going back to bed.
Bob Saget
#98. Every year I just kept going back to gymnastics, but I didn't start out training 10 hours a day. When I turned 10 or 11, I got more serious and I focused a lot on making it to the elite level, and from there I just kept going.
Shawn Johnson
#99. I'm just looking for things to steal [on working with great actors]. It's like going back to acting school. When you're around people that do it well and you get your head out of your ass, you can really learn something.
Benjamin Walker
#100. I've always been a fan of 3D, going back to movies in the '50s. I was part of the early '80s 3D craze, which was coming at you in Jaws 3D, so I've always wanted to make a 3D film.
Eli Roth
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