Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.
During most of the Bush administration human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
I very much regret that our administration has pushed the whole issue of Kosovo to the back burner.
Making a movie takes a toll on your life because it's a commitment so you put a lot on the back burner.
With 'Suite Life ' I had three years to sit a little bit on the back burner and learn with less pressure.
I can talk to my dad like he's my manager and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.
Religion has for too long been placed on the back burner of history when it may be one of the driving forces in history.
There is never a time in a company's history when cost control can be relegated to the back burner but for a startup company keeping costs low is a vital necessity.
Every time I sat in a chemistry lesson I thought 'What am I doing this for? I don't ever want to be in a job that involves a Bunsen burner.'
My stand-up has a lot of performance in it and I loved doing it so much that after years I put the idea of having a show on the back burner.
I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30 and then for my first show in America I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner.
I got married very young and put my career on the back burner for the most part because that's what you did in those days. I've never been a pushy ambitious type of person anyway.
If a power station were to be built down the road I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.
When you have kids there's a tendency to put the marriage stew on the back burner and give it a quick stir now and then. But it's important to remember why you had children with this person.
I've always got to have one impossible dream on the back burner.
When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner.
Who the hell uses a burner cell phone when they're not trying to hide something? [..] Only dope dealers and Hell's Angels and Tony Soprano use burner cell phones.
Those 'back burner' thoughts the ones the brain isn't quite sure about yet may cook the slowest yet they often manage to be the tastiest when they come out.
I do not feel like writing verses; but as I light my perfume burner with myrrh and jasmine incense they suddenly burgeon from my heart like flowers in a garden.
I prefer to just jump into something instead of put it on the back burner and I suppose that's how I deal with most challenging things. I'd rather just attack it head-on.
[ Lady Susan novel by Jane Austen is] extremely difficult to adapt. I worked on it for years for like ten years before I started showing it to people. This was my back-burner project.
Anybody that I ever dealt with knows that I'm a very focused individual and when it comes to my work and what I do you might have to play the back burner to that.