Backroom Quotes

#1. Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

#2. My dad was born in Chicago in 1908 ... his parents came from Russia. They settled in Chicago, where they lived in a little tiny grocery store with eight or nine children - in the backroom all together - and my grandmother got the idea to go into the movie business.

Bob Balaban

#3. It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.

Russell T. Davies

#4. Going from playing a backroom of a bar to a show for 80,000 people ... that's pretty wild.

The Rev

#5. Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals.

Rebecca Solnit

#6. I firmly believe the Senate should see more voting and debate and less standing around and waiting for backroom deals.

James Lankford

#7. Montanans elected me to the Senate to do away with shady backroom deals and to make government work better.

Jon Tester

#8. Some girls talk to the boys in the chat room, my girls talk to the boys in the backroom.

RuPaul

#9. Diplomacy has always involved dinners with ruling elites, backroom deals and clandestine meetings. Now, in the digital age, the reports of all those parties and patrician chats can be collected in one enormous database. And once collected in digital form, it becomes very easy for them to be shared.

Heather Brooke

#10. While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.

Sherman Austin

#11. I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.

Justin Trudeau

#12. backroom boys = people whose work is important but who don't get much recognition

Clare Whitmell

#13. No pretense or wearing masks. No cliques. No hidden agendas, backroom deals, betrayals, secret ambitions, plots, or schemes.

Randy Alcorn

#14. I love all of the government conspiracy stuff. I love all of the shady backroom White House dealings that are going on, and all of the politics involved. That kind of stuff is just fascinating to me.

Michael Graziadei

#15. . . . private group prayers were the modern equivalent of a backroom cigar.

Jeff Sharlet

#16. Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA

Amit Ray

#18. I put a lot of pressure to keep working. And when I'm not working, my agent books three auditions a day. I'd rather go to the set and work.

Noureen DeWulf

#19. There's no choice that doesn't mean a loss.

Jeanette Winterson

#20. Begin your new year by making a commitment to yourself. Rediscover your passion. What sets your heart on fire? And do something about it. Take action. Today. Now.

Julie Connor