Backrooms Quotes & Sayings

My daddy was a carpenter that worked with the Jones boys, who are the most notorious in America. The black gangsters, you know, they were no joke. And he was their master carpenter. He used to build their homes, and all I saw when I was 11 years old were dead bodies and tommy guns and stogies, and backrooms, you know, Drexel Wine and Liquor, with the big piles of money underneath. — Quincy Jones

The people who pretend that dying is rather like strolling into the next room always leave me unconvinced. Death, like birth, must be a tremendous event. — J.B. Priestley

In a certain sense, it's harder for men to say no to sex than it is for women. When a woman says no, nobody's feelings are hurt. Men expect to be shot down. But when a man says no, the woman feels as if he's just said she's fat and undesirable. That makes him feel like a jerk. — Adelle Waldman

Success is no proof of virtue. In the case of a book, quick acclaim is presumptive evidence of a lack of substance and originality. — Walter Kaufmann

Music is what life sounds like. — Eric Olson

You can't help being young, but it's past time that you stopped being stupid. — Scott Lynch

Love me, even if it's a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye. — Faraaz Kazi

Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many. — James McGreevey

That's it," she said, balling her hands in fists. "I'm not letting you out of it this time. I insist that you take me to Scotland. I demand you ruin me. As a point of honor. — Tessa Dare

On a personal level, I think the political situation in Sri Lanka is very much on the mind of Sri Lankans in Canada. They have family here and family back home, and it's possible they've lost members in any one of those tremendous, unbearable events there. — Shyam Selvadurai

I don't care if we're on our way to look at the dismembered corpse of the pope, I want coffee. — D.D. Barant

I try to learn from every experience, good or bad. — Tim Tebow

Gennie, let me tell you something." In an uncharacteristic gesture, he stroked his knuckles gently over her cheek. "I wouldn't be here right now if I could stay away from you.Is that enough for you? — Nora Roberts

The Negro loves America enough to criticize her fundamentally. Most white Americans simply can't be bothered. — John Oliver Killens

The unknown is always interesting. — Michael Ovitz

A clear passion, a resolute determination, a can-do spirit; these are the rods for creating a great mark! — Israelmore Ayivor