Back Doors Quotes - Page 4

• Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.

  Tennessee Williams

  America, Doors, Mexico

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I’d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind he’d take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.

  Janet Evanovich

  Taken, Doors, Two

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.669, Bantam

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• It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

  Gregory Corso

  Dream, Book, Beer

  Gregory Corso (1976). “Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8”, p.105, City Lights Books

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• Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

  Hilary Mantel

  Doors, Truth Is, Easy

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• What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Doors, Years, Long

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• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Doors, Choices, Secret

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• Take the back door," she said. "Claire, you and your strang friend-" "Eve," they both said simultaneously, and Eve held out her fst for a bump. "Or, you could call me Eve the Great, Mistress of All She Surveys. Eve for short.

  Rachel Caine

  Doors, Mistress, Bumps

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• He pushes his hair, soaked from the snow, out of his eyes. "So what are we going to do, break a window? Look for a back door?" "I'm just going to walk in," I say. "I'm her son." "You also betrayed her and left the city when she forbade anyone from doing that," he says, "and she sent people after you to stop you. People with guns." "You can stay here if you want," I say. "Where the serum goes, I go," he says. "But if you get shot at, I'm going to grab it and run." "I don't expect anything more." He is a strange sort of person.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Eye, Son

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• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Dance, Mother, Teaching

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• I'm also conscious of what this confidence that has been placed in me means. I'm going to the Games through the back door but I'm working everyday to exit through the main door!

  Benjamin Boukpeti

  Athlete, Mean, Doors

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• The time is past when Christians in America can take a long spoon and hand the gospel to the black man out the back door.

  Mordecai Wyatt Johnson

  Christian, Past, Men

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• We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Team, Intelligent

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• If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.

  Bill Anderson

  Doors, Lunch, Picnics

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• When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference?

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Country, Differences

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• If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.

  Guy Fieri

  Dog, Mistake, Safety Zone

  Interview with Rachael Ray, www.rachaelraymag.com. November 1, 2005.

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• Last night we had three small zucchini for dinner that were grown within fifty feet of our back door. I estimate they cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $371.49 each.

  Andy Rooney

  Night, Zucchini, Doors

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• I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: "When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  White, Doors, Judging

  Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1964). “A Martin Luther King Treasury”

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• The thing about that singles apartment is you never had to clean it up... until the day you got the security deposit back. You're arguing with the landlord... 'No sir, the back door was missing when we moved in here! The pizzas were always on the ceiling!'

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Funny, Humor, Doors

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• It is the human things that make life good, the unexpected kindness, the friendly note, the bracing word, the neighbour's extra loaf of bread she leaves at our back door.

  Stevie Ray Vaughan

  Kindness, Good Life, Doors

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• When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.

  Napoleon Hill

  Running, Doors, Worry

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• It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.

  Tori Amos

  Character, Thinking, Doors

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.144, Crown Archetype

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• From a policymaker's point of view, [the back door] must look like a perfect solution. "We'll hold onto a separate copy of the keys, and we'll try to keep them really, really safe so that only in an emergency and if it's authorized by a court will we bring out those keys and use them." And, from a policy point of view, when you describe it that way, who could be against that?

  Matt Blaze

  Keys, Doors, Views

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Well, I'm certainly glad that I was nominated for an Oscar. There is certainly a respect that comes with that nod. Also, a compliment that comes with it, too. Not that I really know what I'm doing. In a lot of ways I feel like some child on set, or like a kid that snuck in the back door.

  Gabourey Sidibe

  Children, Kids, Doors

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• We lived in a neighborhood that was too rich for us. When I was young, I had to deliver groceries to the homes of the kids I went to school with. I had to go to the back doors to make the deliveries. It was embarrassing. That was one thing out of a hundred.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Home, School, Kids

  "Rodney Dangerfield: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• We both [with Alixandra Kolesky MacKenzie] got into ceramics, you might say, by the back door. Looking back on it, I think this was a very good thing.

  Warren MacKenzie

  Thinking, Doors, Ceramics

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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