- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Back Quotes
Words about returning, backing up, and standing behind what matters.
This collection gathers lines built around the small word 'back' in surprisingly different contexts: political leverage handed back to Congress, actors returning from a shoot, and even a beauty routine built on backing up one step with another. See more reflective lines in our Always collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
The problem is Jewish-American fiction that always ends with assimilation back into the community.
- Sense
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- Nov 07, 2020
All technology does is give us back to ourselves. So to be anti-technology in a sense is to be anti-human.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
We went a few decades without a good mullet on TV, so I'm happy to bring it back.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.
- Real
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not scary to make a horror film because you get to pull back the curtain and see that none of it's real. When you're watching one, the terror bombards you.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to put the federal bureaucracy back on a leash is to make it obey the laws the people write.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator McCaskill - she's been in D.C. forever. She's turned her back on farmers. She's ignored working families.
- Think
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I learned years ago when I went to Hawaii that you don't bring puka shells back. You've got to be careful of your vacation purchases.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I feel confused or depressed, I remember back to junior high and I silently repeat, 'This, too, shall pass.'
- Nov 07, 2020
I have a long way to catch up. I have to start with the pros this year, about 20 seconds back.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
If manufacturing jobs do come back to the U.S., they will be done by robots in hi-tech parts of the country rather than the Rust Belt states.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
At graduation, I assumed I'd be in publishing, but first I went to England and got a master's degree in English Literature. And then I came back to New York and had a series of publishing jobs, the way one does.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020