Backflash Quotes & Sayings

At the start of each new day, remind yourself: "I am talented. I am creative. I am greatly favored by God. I am equipped. I am well able. I will see my dreams come to pass." Declare those statements by faith and before long, you will begin to see them in reality. — Joel Osteen

Do not allow the anxiety on how you will achieve your goals stop you from dreaming. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Psychological complexity, character development, the killer line to end a scene, villains blotched with virtue, heroic characters speckled with villainy, foreshadow and backflash, artful misdirection. — David Mitchell

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. - Benjamin Franklin — Bryant McGill

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer. — Robert Bresson

Believing without acting is nothing. Nothing at all. — David Matheny

In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Every difficult problem is easy if you know how to. — Debasish Mridha

My only wish is that we leave room for hope. There is good and bad in all things. We find what we expect to find. We see what we expect to see. I have learned that if I tilt my head just right and squint, the world outside is beautiful. The future is bright. There are good things to come. — Hugh Howey

Do you understand economics? I mean big-time, prewar, global capitalism. Do you get how it worked? I don't, and anyone who says they do is full of shit. — Max Brooks

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people. — Tammy Baldwin

I can see how I could write a bold account of myself as a passionate man who rose from humble beginnings to cut a wide swath in the world, whose crimes along the way might be written off to extravagance and love and art, and could even almost believe some of it myself on certain days after the sun went down if I'd had a snort or two and was in Los Angeles and it was February and I was twenty-four, but I find a truer account in the Herald-Star, where it says: "Mr. Gary Keillor visited at the home of Al and Florence Crandall on Monday and after lunch returned to St. Paul, where he is currently employed in the radio show business ... Lunch was fried chicken with gravy and creamed peas". — Garrison Keillor

I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable. — John Lithgow

I think girls who looked like me or were from the poorer area where I'm from in Australia, like you don't think "Oh, I'm going to be a movie star." You just didn't think that would happen to girls like me where I'm from. — Rebel Wilson

He wasn't clean lines and perfect symmetries, and I found him even more interesting for it. — Becca Fitzpatrick