Top 100 Back Door Sayings
#1. I do not eat breakfast. i never eat breakfast. I haven't eaten breakfast since I was able to walk out the back door without eating breakfast first.
David Levithan
#2. We are not the Church in failure, running out the back door while the devil kicks in the front door. We are the Church of Luke 10:19 that has authority over all the power of the enemy.
Harold R. Eberle
#3. In my day, when you called on a girl, her mother was always hollering down to see if she was still unraped, the maid would look in, her father would shuffle his feet in another room. Today the boy calls up, says, 'Meet you at the back door of Stern's.'
Frank Crowninshield
#4. They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together.
Lisa McMann
#5. One always needs an alternate plan, a back door, a saddled pony waiting in the alley for a quick escape, perhaps a friend to hold it, perhaps not." The
Thelma Adams
#6. I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
Luther Allison
#7. So the paradise is locked and bolted...
We should make a journey around the world to see if perhaps a back door has been left open.
Henrich Von Kleist
#8. 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
#9. I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.
Ted Cruz
#10. THE BACK DOOR, what was left of it, scraped open again, and they could hear boot steps on the stoop, and Lucas said, "This is it, Grace. Who's going after Bowden? Give me something that'll give you a break." She shook her head. "Fuck you.
John Sandford
#11. My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.
Mem Fox
#12. We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.
Russ Feingold
#13. 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
#14. Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window
Aesop
#15. There is nothing in back of this cafe. Since the place sits right on the margin between the edge of the world and infinite possibility, he back door opens out to a void. It takes courage to turn the knob and heart to leave the steps.
Gloria Naylor
#16. Evie " came his faint whisper "I'm going to your mother see ... she's got 'em to leave a back door open ... so I can steal into 'eaven.
Lisa Kleypas
#17. You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.
Tim Cook
#18. There was a time when actors went in at the back door. Most of them still should.
Raymond Chandler
#19. Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.
Mike Harding
#20. We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.
Ravi Zacharias
#21. Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.
Ana Gasteyer
#22. In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve them tea.
Shunryu Suzuki
#23. Yes, Seth, he took a nap and Perses snuck in the back door and let them out. Then they skipped through the Vale of Mourning, stopped to have a pic-a-nic and then decided to leave the Underworld all slow-like, and all the while Hades was chillin' and doing nothing.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#24. Women are being welcomed into science fiction, but it's through the back door.
Annalee Newitz
#25. Why should we allow international markets to erode domestic labor regulations through the back door when we do not allow domestic markets to do the same? The
Dani Rodrik
#26. 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
#27. If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
Bill Anderson
#29. It reminds me too much of how little life changes: how, without dramatic events or high resolves, without tragedy, without even pathos, a reasonably endowed, reasonable well-intentioned man can walk through the world's great kitchen from end to end and arrive at the back door hungry.
Wallace Stegner
#30. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. I was sure there were demons more dangerous than Minias, but his owing me a favor sounded like the back door into trouble, not the front door out of the same.
Kim Harrison
#32. I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.
Bob Dylan
#33. That is one of the tricks of opportunity. It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.
Napoleon Hill
#34. There can be no better place to begin your exploration of the world than by stepping our your own back door.
Cameron Dokey
#35. Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea.
Shunryu Suzuki
#37. The sun will shine in my back door one day..
Jerry Garcia
#38. If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.
Robert Stack
#39. The back door blew out from the limo, winging across the road at such a force that it ripped right through a Luxen in a police uniform. Like, one Luxen suddenly became two not-so-put-together Luxen.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#41. A door jumps
out from shadows,
then jumps away. This
is what I've come to find:
the back door, unlatched.
Tooled by insular wind, it
slams and slams
without meaning
to and without meaning.
Li-Young Lee
#42. The light that gleams at their back door
Will guide you from the lonely shore,
But dangers seek you as you go,
One from above, one from below.
One hides by night, one hides by day,
And hard and stony is your way.
Emily Rodda
#43. 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
#44. To fight oppression, and to work as best we can for a sane organization of society, we do not have to abandon the state of mind offreedom. If we do that we are letting the same thuggery in by the back door that we are fighting off in front of the house.
John Dos Passos
#45. In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.
Nellie L. McClung
#46. For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door
Jonathan Swift
#47. Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.
Jean Wilson
#48. No back doors! I had a back door, but every fucker who thought he was bad wouldn't use the front door because everyone knows that if you're bad, you slip out through the back. I boarded it up - use the front door like everybody else.
Jem Matzan
#49. You can't hack your destiny, brute force ... you need a back door, a side channel into Life.
Clyde DeSouza
#50. Clay pulled Lucas along and as they were approaching the back door, he called, "Madam Secretary . . . I need you to meet this guy." She stopped and turned and looked at Lucas and then Clay, did a quick price check on Lucas's suit, and asked, "How do you do?
John Sandford
#51. Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.
Brandon Boyd
#52. Nothing but rules. Rule the first: no callers at the front door. Rule the second: no callers at the back door. Rule the third: no going out after dark. The six dusters had to be washed each evening and accounted for.
Edna O'Brien
#53. 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
#54. Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.
Joan Connor
#55. As the crowd stomps the floor for a curtain call, we sneak through the back door and make off like superheroes.
Dave Eggers
#56. I sat with my toes buried in the warm yellow sand staring out towards the back door of The East. Pacific Ocean Blue was playing in the background and it had left me in a state of Bohemia as the waves crashed ashore; roaring as loud as lions.
David Louden
#57. The government does things like insisting that all encryption programs should have a back door. But surely no one is stupid enough to think the terrorists are going to use encryption systems with a back door. The terrorists will simply hire a programmer to come up with a secure encryption scheme.
Kevin Mitnick
#58. 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
#59. Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.
Edward Hoagland
#60. There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#61. I tired the back door
unlocked.
Truley the Man Upstairs was smiling down on me.
Maggie Stiefvater
#62. I did some plays in high school. Yes. Never took it that seriously. My parents, however, wanted me to go to college. My grades weren't exactly spectacular so they figured acting might be a necessary back door into some school.
Samuel Witwer
#63. Standing face to face with a still pissed Nox, I find myself getting pissed, too. Nox just has that effect on me. I swear this guy must've been conceived through back door action. There's no way being that much of an asshole is natural.
Belle Aurora
#64. When enthusiasm runs in the front door, worry runs out the back door.
Napoleon Hill
#65. Husbands were all too often the back door by which secrets escaped into the outside world.
Stephen King
#66. Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states ...
Tennessee Williams
#67. I come from Beverley in East Yorkshire, and no one there would step outside their front door, or even their back door, on a Saturday night - or any other time, for that matter - unless they were dressed to the nines.
Anna Maxwell Martin
#68. I was a good Indian girl, but naughty in that I would often sneak out of the back door and into the garden and go off with my friends when I should have been at home cooking or cleaning.
Gurinder Chadha
#69. Maybe you'll show up at my back door with your nuts again.
Alice Clayton
#70. Jan-Peter offered to teach me the language of Amsterdam's red light district ... But after his first phrase
'Using the back door will cost you double'
I withdrew my request.
Cristina Garcia
#71. 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
#72. It seemed to Jahan that, in truth, this world, too, was a spectacle. One way or another, everyone was parading. They performed their tricks, each of them, some staying longer, others shorter, but in the end they all left through the back door, similarly unfulfilled, similarly in need of applause.
Elif Shafak
#73. Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
Joseph Conrad
#74. Suddenly, Shelby started, at the same time that we heard Cole's voice across the backyard: "Clear off, you psychotic bitch!"
She slid off into the darkness as the back door slammed.
"Thanks, Cole," I said. "That was incredibly subtle."
"That," replied Cole, "is one of my finest traits.
Maggie Stiefvater
#75. Have you heard the old adage advising to always grow oleanders at your back door? Nicci asked.
Terry Goodkind
#76. I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door,
Tony Abbott
#77. With each book, you get better as a writer. There is no back door to the industry. Read in the genre you want to write, as the more you read, the better you will get as an author.
Michelle Moran
#78. We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
John Harrison
#79. 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
#80. You want to achieve your dreams early, right? I know of only one back door; that's HARDWORK. Only few people use that entrance so the advantage is that there is no or less traffic there!
Israelmore Ayivor
#81. Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."
Jodi Picoult
#82. Pigpen taught me how to upload code from the internet and how to get it on people's computers and phones so I have a back door to their network.
Katie McGarry
#83. Well helloooo, Big Ben," Tim purred, still holding Ben's hand in his. "It's mighty neighborly of you to drop by. If you're ever in need of some sugar, feel free to knock on my back door. I'd be happy to fit you in.
A.J. Ridges
#84. Seneca and stoicism as a back door to explain why everything antifragile has to have more upside than downside
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#85. 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
#86. I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door.
Grover Norquist
#87. What a world, thought Kugel; whoever you were, wherever you were, whatever time of the day or night, you could open your back door and call out I know you're out there motherfucker, and nine times out of ten you'd be right.
Shalom Auslander
#88. Another day the ladybugs arrive. Thousands of them, soaking up the sun on the back door. It's an Indian summer day, warm, with temperatures in the upper sixties and plentiful sun.
Mary Kubica
#89. The back door popped open, and Claire, fairy wings all a-flutter, pulled Miranda inside. It was like a military operation, only with one hundred percent less camouflage.
Rachel Caine
#90. As far as I'm concerned, collaboration is the essence of life. It's wonderful to be able to have talents, and, very often, we think that we know what our talents are, or we find out through a back door that we have a talent. I know that I found out I was a lyricist quite through a back door.
Lesley Gore
#91. But paradise is locked and bolted ...
We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.
Heinrich Von Kleist
#92. When I came back from death
it was morning,
the back door was open
and one of the buttons of my shirt had disappeared.
Derick S. Thomson
#94. I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.
Joanne Harris
#95. There must be no attempts to remain inside the E.U., no attempts to rejoin it through the back door, and no second referendum.
Theresa May
#96. 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
#98. And the moral for Dinosaurs is: Lock the Back Door!
Mo Willems
#99. Don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.
Tom Wolfe
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