Go Off Quotes

#1. CUSTOMER (to their friend): God, the Famous Five titles realy were crap, weren't they? Five Go Camping. Five Go Off in a Caravan ... If it was Five Go Down To a Crack House it might be a bit more exciting.

Jen Campbell

#2. A stale article, if you did it in a good, warm, sunny smile will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#3. We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves.

Ram Dass

#4. I had a dream , okay, go do a swim off Antarctica, and I'd train in Gauteng and just dive into the sea off Antarctica ... You've really got to do a simulated test as best you can in South Africa before you go off.

Lewis Pugh

#5. I had to go off the circuit twice to avoid him. I don't know what Rene Arnoux is doing in Formula One racing. He should be on the beach.

Thierry Boutsen

#6. Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ... even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way ... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.

Goldie Hawn

#7. When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

Kylie Jenner

#8. If you go off the edge, it's not cooking anymore, so you have to push it to the limit ... What are the limits?

Ferran Adria

#9. Ever since I read 'Kitchen Confidential,' I saw a little light bulb go off. Being a chef is like being on a pirate ship; it's not like 'Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?' or whatever my impression was as I was growing up.

Jon Favreau

#10. When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much.

Adam Carolla

#11. Bea did not want a new mother. She'd hardly even seen the one she once had, except for glimpses out the window when her mother was climbing into a carriage to go off to a party. She'd been as beautiful as an angel, all sparkling and laughing in her lovely gowns, but not much use.

Amanda McCabe

#12. This is the problem when you create enemies, Erika. They go off and plot, and often flourish in the shade.

Robert Bryndza

#13. God, this is why I can never live with women. They go off into corners and think, maybe it's this, maybe it's that. Ask, woman. Ask.

Sophie Page

#14. Don't let me go off to the front without having touched you for the first time, without having heard your voice say my name. Don't let me go off to the front without a memory of you in my heart.

Jessica Brockmole

#15. But I'll tell you this, it started with my mother. I have to give her. God bless her and rest her soul. I had a good foundation at home, so when I was able to go off and do these things in baseball there was always support.

Dave Winfield

#16. My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.

Jacob Epstein

#17. I'm always trying new things and learning new things. If there isn't anything more you can learn - go off and die.

Morgan Freeman

#18. I watched, for the 17th and hopefully the last time, The 'Guns of Navarone' on New Year's Eve. I always watch just in case the explosives don't go off in the end. You have to watch the end, just to make sure it's OK.

David Cameron

#19. I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm afraid I go off like a bottle of warm beer.

George Orwell

#20. Bloody dogs," Dad said, kicking indiscriminately under the table. He put his revolver next to his side-plate. Mum put her Uzi on an empty chair beside her. "Safety on?" Dad always asked. "Those things are liable to go off at the touch of a gnat's testicle.

Alexandra Fuller

#21. When it's all over and the on the air signs go off there isn't a more lost feeling in the world. The wonderful, exciting, even glamorous, studio is now just a room dirty with coffee cartons and cigarette butts.

Gertrude Berg

#22. It's an odd feeling-farewell-there is some envy in it. Men go off to be tested for courage and if we're tested at all, it's for patience, for doing without, for how well we can endure loneliness.

Karen Blixen

#23. I do think you are supposed to go through wars with your child because otherwise the tearing apart that has to happen when they go off to lead their own life would be unbearable.

Dawn French

#24. The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.

Kate Winslet

#25. If the truth will come out only in the darkness, then let the lights go off!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#26. I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!

Michael Jordan

#27. A.J. nods out of politeness, but he doesn't believe in random acts. He is a reader, and what he believes in is narrative construction. If a gun appears in act one, that gun had better go off by act three.

Gabrielle Zevin

#28. There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

Adora Svitak

#29. The scheme had been, if I remember, that after lunch I should go off and caddy for Honoria on a shopping tour down Regent Street; but when she got up and started collecting me and the rest of her things, Aunt Agatha stopped her.

P.G. Wodehouse

#30. When I'm with you, bells go off in my head like a moving truck that's backing up.

Jodi Picoult

#31. I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story
so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is.

Tama Janowitz

#32. Years ago I realized that maybe I made mistake, politically, when I turned a lot of that stuff down. I would go off to obscure places and make movies that six people went to see.

Mickey Rourke

#33. If you don't know where you're going, it doesn't matter if your alarm doesn't go off in the morning.

Denis Waitley

#34. There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

David Lynch

#35. In the U.S., it's like, you start with a great script, and then on set - not everybody, but definitely in the Apatow group - you go off, and you're improvising on camera. So while you're on camera, you're saying things that no one else has ever heard before during the actual take.

Bill Hader

#36. I like to tell people that I have the best job in the media. All I do is hang around with heroes. I do that every week for my 'War Stories' documentary series - and when FOX News wants - I go off and cover the young Americans we send to places like Afghanistan or Iraq.

Oliver North

#37. When my children were very young, I was slated to go on a business trip. When it was nearly canceled, I decided I wouldn't tell anyone and go off for a week's vacation anyway. In the end, the trip went off as planned. But I was intrigued by the idea of an illicit holiday.

Sophie Hannah

#38. Novelists tend to go off at 70, and I'm in a funk about it, I've got myself into a real paranoid funk about it, how the talent dies before the body.

Martin Amis

#39. When you shoot, that is opportunity number one to make a statement. When you edit, you have opportunity number two to make your statement. It could be an affirmation of your first choice or could go off in another direction.

Jay Maisel

#40. Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.

Chinua Achebe

#41. You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

Eliza Coupe

#42. When poets go off the boil, they sound like bumble bees; when critics do, they sound like sewing machines.

Mason Cooley

#43. We can become fearless as we let go off our grasp on the fear of failure, because failure too is a perception rather than a reality.

Gyalwa Dokhampa

#44. Cats ... are completely self-sufficient and can leave you at any time and go off and make a living. And yet cats can have warm and loving relationships with humans.

Jean Craighead George

#45. But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

Alan Watts

#46. To direct a genuinely animated film, you're really having meetings and discussing what you want with animators who then go off and produce one shot at a time that you look at and comment on.

Peter Jackson

#47. In this life, I've found my true treasure
that will never gonna let me go off hand.

Toba Beta

#48. Strong families use the word we a lot, but I is never forgotten. Family members know they have the freedom to go off on their own, even if the direction is one that we have never followed before. The family message is, We're behind you, so you can be you.

Joyce Brothers

#49. In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.

Peter Greenaway

#50. Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

Curtis Jackson

#51. 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

#52. For most of human history, we appear to have lived in tribes of seventy-five to 150 people. Those who could not handle the complexity of the relationships would go off on their own. Lions need to eat, after all. Today

Randy J. Paterson

#53. What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.

William, Saroyan

#54. I think it's too bad when teenagers become conformist in terms of fashion,because it's the ideal time to go off into your own crazy thing without looking completely idiotic.

Clemence Poesy

#55. Every morning, I go off to a small studio behind my house to write. I try to ignore all email and phone calls until lunchtime. Then I launch into the sometimes frantic busy-ness of a tightly scheduled day.

Daniel Goleman

#56. It's like trying to herd a flock of geese," said Orik. "They're always trying to go off on their own, they make an obnoxious noise, and they'll bite your hand first chance they get.

Christopher Paolini

#57. It's admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat.

J.M. Coetzee

#58. I'm not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it, and then go off and just have fun.

Hamdi Ulukaya

#59. If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

Alfred Hitchcock

#60. The band will be going along, and somebody or another will say, 'I want to go off and do a solo career.' ... They come back, and other people come in.

Chris Squire

#61. When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

Eugene H. Peterson

#62. You know, plenty of people headed off to Canada or America on the basis of government information, propaganda campaigns. Often you'd go off with a brochure in hand and you'd turn up and it wouldn't be like that at all.

Emma Donoghue

#63. There's an old rule of theater that goes, 'If there's a gun on the mantel in Act I, it must go off in Act III.' The reverse is also true.

Stephen King

#64. There was a lot of pressure on me when I was 18, 19 to move to America. I went out for a couple of weeks and hated it. I thought I could go out my mind. You could really see how people could go off the rails.

Martin Compston

#65. I felt that I had been influenced by being in the city enough and I wanted to go off by myself to see what was going on. I remember going out there and looking in the mirror and thinking I wasn't anything.

Roscoe Mitchell

#66. It's important to remember that people can go off the deep end; it doesn't mean they have to stay there. And when they come back, it's nice to have a friend waiting with a warm towel.

Julie Klam

#67. TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off

Sylvia Plath

#68. I stayed attached to baseball through the kids and through minor league baseball, and I'm very satisfied with the schedule it allows me to have, which means I'm home until my kids go off to college. I value that time.

Cal Ripken Jr.

#69. And then the dreams break into a million tiny pieces. The dream dies. Which leaves you with a choice: you can settle for reality, or you can go off, like a fool, and dream another dream.

Nora Ephron

#70. When you can, avoid sitting, or even open up a direct attack. Set your phone or watch timer to go off every hour so that you get up out of your chair, mobilize for a minute or two, and then (if you have to go back to sitting) sit down with your butt and stomach muscles turned on and engaged.

Kelly Starrett

#71. It was not cool to be that fun, bubbly kid, so I would just go off on my own and sing and make up songs, and that's how I think I developed into the kind of artist and writer that I am.

Elle Varner

#72. The way to heal your relationship is to look for the underlying conditions in yourself and in your partner that have caused your relationship to go off track and then to seek out the guidance you need to heal yourself. The Laws of Love will give you that guidance.

Chris Prentiss

#73. The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.

Ernest Hemingway,

#74. There's something about the American people: They have such an innate sense of fairness that the red light goes on and the bells go off the second you approach that line. Any kind of personal attack is verboten. You shouldn't do it; it's not worth it.

Roger Ailes

#75. I am not good wife material because I'm fiercely independent and like to go off and do my own thing.

Amanda Harlech

#76. I'd go off alone,
because you can't trust those who want to break the rules and you certainly can't trust those who make the rules so you do the only thing possible,
you avoid the rules.

Steven Herrick

#77. I nod to a passing stranger, and the stranger nods back, and two human beings go off, feeling a little less anonymous.

Robert Breault

#78. The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.

George Harrison

#79. Has he not got a wife back wherever he comes from? Is there no wife to say, 'You must not go off and visit library ladies'?

Alexander McCall Smith

#80. I am blessed with a good metabolism, and as long as I work out, carbs don't add to my weight. If I need a leaner, meaner look for a film, I go off carbs for a bit.

Arjun Rampal

#81. The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

Eddie Van Halen

#82. When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.

Heinrich Heine

#83. The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cliff. You have to manage yourself. And make sure you do it in the right way so you are not making decisions in crisis.

Roger Goodell

#84. Go off-road ... Practice a little daring.

Tony Snow

#85. The moment we think we deserve mercy a little alarm bell should go off in our head because we are not talking about mercy anymore but justice.

R.C. Sproul

#86. The moment that you start to read a script, you're watching the movie in your mind, and that's the one moment that you have. Then, you go off to make the movie and you become so lost in it.

Michael Angarano

#87. I believe acting is very physical, and when you have to fight or do those kinds of things, it takes a lot of respect not to allow yourself to go off and hurt yourself or someone else.

Giancarlo Esposito

#88. There are so many people who want to get together to have a great prayer meeting or other great gatherings. Friend, have you ever tried being alone? That is where God will meet with you. Take the Word of God and go off alone with Him. It will do you a lot of good.

J. Vernon McGee

#89. Sometimes it's hard for us to believe, really believe, that God cares and wants good things for us and doesn't just want us to go off and give everything up and become missionaries in Burundi.

Bear Grylls

#90. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

#91. I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

Robert Littell

#92. I dress how I feel. I just go off emotion. I can't prepare my outfit a day before. Everything I wear is spontaneous.

ASAP Rocky

#93. Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#94. It is an old custom amongst Jewish children, to become war-like on the 'L'ag Beomer.' They arm themselves from head to foot with wooden swords, pop-guns and bows and arrows. They take food with them, and go off to wage war.

Sholom Aleichem

#95. There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Vash Young

#96. I used to teach at a private school, and the parents thought I loved their children. I did not love their children! I liked them well enough, but I was always delighted to see them go off for summer vacation.

Caitlin Flanagan

#97. We did 'The Simpsons Movie,' which took almost four years; it was the same people that do the TV show, and it just killed us. So that's why there hasn't been a second movie. But I imagine if the show ever does go off the air, they'll start doing movies.

Matt Groening

#98. When you meet someone
so different from yourself,
in a good way,
you don't even have to kiss
to have fireworks go off.

Lisa Schroeder

#99. With a chemical alarm, you're going to build one that is oversensitive because you would rather the alarm go off and give you a false alarm than to err on the other side.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#100. Most traditional Scottish food is designed to use things that are just about to go ... off.

Scott Hutchison