Read It Backwards Quotes

#1. When once the gate is opened to self-torture, the whole army of fiends files in.

Henry James

#2. Some providences, like Hebrew letters, must be read backwards.

John Flavel

#3. Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

Eminem

#4. You don't want to jump in on your first day on a show and start improv-ing and changing the show.

Geoff Stults

#5. Who is she, why is she still here and when can I see her naked? Paris asked with an eyebrow wiggle

Gena Showalter

#6. The word devil is very beautiful, if you read it backwards it becomes lived.

Rajneesh

#7. Did you ever think that maybe what you see isn't really what's true?

Jodi Picoult

#8. If we had these rockets in 1939, we should never have had this war.

Adolf Hitler

#9. If I read our story backwards, it's about how I un-broke your heart, and then we were happy until one day, you forgot about me forever.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#10. The world is a funny paper read backwards. And that way it isn't so funny.

Tennessee Williams

#11. it's
spring
and
the
goat-footed

balloonMan whistles
far
and
wee

E. E. Cummings

#12. Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

Arthur Smith

#13. Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you can't fake. I'm not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense.

Wale

#14. That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. No one had ever told her about the ingredients of life, only of biscuits.

Jonathan Odell

#16. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible.) There

Stephen Hawking

#17. Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom.

Coventry Patmore

#18. As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.

Anna Quindlen

#19. The person who doesn't read lives only one life. The reader lives 5,000. Reading is immortality backwards.

Umberto Eco

#20. Evil" read backwards is "live." Demon est deus inversus.

Alan W. Watts

#21. I find it interesting to see people - mostly people who are younger than I am - going to considerable trouble to try to reproduce things from an era that was far more physical, from a less virtual day.

William Gibson

#22. Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that was probably one of the ones that left an opening for it. The song's all right, I wouldn't choose to sing it now.

Roy Wood

#23. But I'm not one to read a book backwards.

Barbra Annino

#24. I love the way a story's ending can force you to read backwards. It's as if you are slowly adjusting a kaleidoscope until a random scattering of colored crystals suddenly falls into a beautiful symmetrical pattern.

Catherine Brady

#25. 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.

Caitlyn Jenner

#26. This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.

Anonymous

#27. The Providence of God is like Hebrew words - it can be read only backwards.

John Flavel

#28. It wasn't just that I saw in his book, reflected backwards and dimly, my own retreat into wildness. It was this: of all the books I read as a child, his was the only one I remembered where the animal didn't die.

Helen Macdonald

#29. When you read, I'm sure you don't realize that your eyes are going backwards and forwards and to this place and that place. Mine don't do that.

Terry Pratchett