- 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
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Women must not shout back when their husbands come home and shout at them for any reason.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2004 in England, there was one catch that was very special to me. I was bowling in a league match, and the batsman hit the ball over my head. I had to run back to between mid-off and mid-on to take the catch, and I did.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
- Drop-Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and get someone to play it, I could just type it into the computer and hear it back.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm quite nostalgic. I like looking back over the papers and watching videos.
- Push
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- Nov 07, 2020
When there's no push back against Islamophobic rhetoric, people see that as tacit endorsement of anti-Islamic rhetoric.
- Nov 07, 2020
The best way to listen to the album is to put it on, get some Moet, lay back with your boys, and kick it.
- Pool
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started this I wanted to get back in the pool, I wanted to race and I wanted to go to the Olympics. I still want to do all of those things.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.
- Great One
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- Nov 07, 2020