- 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
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love to play basketball, but I haven't played in awhile. But if I could get back on the court and play, I definitely would.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do tend to miss that repetition of day in and day out in a restaurant. I would like to open someplace where I can get back in touch with that side of my restaurant background. It is something we have plans to do and not sure how or when, but it is not too far away.
- Step
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you can't go one way, there's many ways to get where you're going. So you just take a step back and see beyond the wall.
- Nov 07, 2020
Summer in Seoul is full of thick heat that clings to your neck, the back of your knees.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to tell stories. Well, at least, I always came back to the notion of storytelling when the glitz and glamour of being a special effects designer or a fighter pilot or a DEA agent wore off.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nothing's holding me back. If I'm held back, the only thing holding me back was me.
- Miles
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came back after my surgery, throwing four to six miles harder than I did before.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I've been back to Atlanta a couple of times, I can't remember what for. One for a big conference, a radio conference. I feel like it's a vibrant place. It has a vibrant music scene.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad is from Panama; he came to the U.S. in 1971. He came to study chemical engineering at the University of Delaware. He thought he would go back, and then he met my mom here. I was born and mostly raised in Delaware.
- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was exploring, collecting, making observations. It wasn't until he got back and went through the samples that he noticed the differences among them and put them in context.
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.
- Dinner Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somewhere in the back of their minds, hosts and guests alike know that the dinner party is a source of untold irritation, and that even the dullest evening spent watching television is preferable.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020