Top 100 Live Off Quotes
#1. When we moved to Australia in 2008, I decided to try to live off the writing.
Adrian McKinty
#2. I'd like my super power to be puns; I'd like to be great at puns: pun power. Then I could go on loads of panel shows and live off that forever.
Chris O'Dowd
#3. We all live off his generous bounty, gift after gift after gift. [ John 1:16 MSG ]
Max Lucado
#4. Make big pots of soups, stews and chilis - they stretch a buck, and you can live off them for days!
Rachael Ray
#5. Do you think you're invincible? That you live off nothing but fresh dew and cold fury?
Renee Ahdieh
#6. I have permission to live off campus. She didn't say from whom, because it was primarily herself.
Rachel Caine
#7. It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.
Chubby Checker
#8. If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
James O'Shaughnessy
#9. Fortunately, artists can live off their works, if you're creative at how you do it. If you just depend on the videos and the radio, you're at a loss.
Talib Kweli
#11. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
George Orwell
#12. Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.
Thom Yorke
#13. I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there.
Jesse Ventura
#14. It would be nice to live off the land and fix cars.
Anton Yelchin
#15. Marriage is a custom brought about by women who then proceed to live off men and destroy them, completely enveloping the man in a destructive cocoon or eating him away like a poisonous fungus on a tree.
Richard Harris
#16. I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#17. I cannot, in my old age, live off pieces of my youth.
Peter Biskind
#18. An extended stay in the wilderness inevitably directs one's attention outward as much as inward, and it is impossible to live off the land without developing both a subtle understanding of, and a strong emotional bond with, that land and all it holds.
Jon Krakauer
#19. It's not just the players, it's the culture. Sometimes it's the people around them; the people who are looking after them - the money they're given. Some of the families give up their jobs and live off their sons. That would never have happened 10 years ago.
Ryan Giggs
#20. Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.
Si Robertson
#21. If you live off a man's compliments, you'll die from his criticism.
Cornelius Lindsey
#22. You can't live off of just greasy fatty foods and stayin' up till six in the mornin' just partyin'. You gotta take care of yourself.
Questlove
#23. Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn't live off fame, but rather deeds.
Dejan Stojanovic
#24. They walked up the stone steps into the Entrance Hall, where the delicious smells of dinner wafted towards them from the Great Hall.
"Poor old Snuffles," said Ron, breathing deeply. "He must really like you, Harry... imagine having to live off rats.
J.K. Rowling
#25. We have a few young people who are very successful in it, and this gives us the wrong impression that the whole country can live off high tech.
Stef Wertheimer
#26. In order to live off a garden, you practically have to live in it.
Kin Hubbard
#27. As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
Jonathan Coe
#28. Once in Africa I lost the corkscrew and we were forced to live off food and water for weeks.
Ernest Hemingway,
#29. The goal of retirement is to live off your assets-not on them
Frank Eberhart
#30. The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.
Dana Spiotta
#31. When children are loved, they live off trust; their bides and hearts open up to those who respect and love them, who understand and listen to them.
Jean Vanier
#33. I have 120 people in my payroll without any government giving me any money. We live off the tickets and the records I sell. That is very unusual.
Andre Rieu
#34. The difference between a Republican and a Democrat is the Democrat is a cannibal they have to live off each other, while the Republicans, why, they live off the Democrats.
Will Rogers
#35. With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they're happy.
Fernando Pessoa
#36. Each of us must live off the fruit of his thoughts in the future, because what you think today and tomorrow, next month and next year, you will mold your life and determine your future. You are guided by your mind.
Earl Nightingale
#37. In my book, the media are a necessary evil: they live off the animal inside us, they bait the front pages with second-hand blood for the hyenas to snuffle up, but they come in useful enough that you want to stay on their good side.
Tana French
#38. Public officials are permitted to finance or subsidize their own activities through taxes. That is, they are permitted to engage in and live off, what in private dealings between private law subjects is prohibited and considered 'theft' and 'stolen loot.'
Hans-Hermann Hoppe
#39. Traditions are lovely thingsto create traditions, that is, not to live off them.
Franz Marc
#40. What I put in the stock market, I don't have to touch in my lifetime. I want to live off my bonds. I want to be that safe.
Monica Seles
#41. I live off a motto that says, 'yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery'. I have goals and agendas. Where ever I'll be tomorrow, that's where I'll be.
Vanilla Ice
#42. The dead season when wolves live off the wind.
Robert Lowell
#44. One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
G. Tyler Miller
#45. I don't fight like Mike Tyson. I'm nothing at all like Mike Tyson. I'm out to build my own legacy and not live off anyone else's name.
Tyson Fury
#46. So this is how they lived. For some time Theo, like a tree living in the shadow of taller trees, found a way to live off reflected light.
Dave Eggers
#47. You can't live off potential for the rest of your life. So get up, get out and go get you some!
Eric Thomas
#48. I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
Joe Meno
#49. Leena and Kelly Davidson have always lived a comfortable life. Neither girl has ever held a job nor did they intend to get one. All they wanted was to live off their parents' money for their rest of their lives. What could be better than that?
Valenciya Lyons
#50. You could say our new colonies live off the bodies of the dead. Only they're not really the bodies of the dead. They're just the cast-off bodies of the living.
John Scalzi
#51. Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war
Pope Francis
#52. That's how I'll score my Nobel: one girl's experiment to live off cereal in her room for an entire summer.
Harriet Reuter Hapgood
#53. It just doesn't seem fair, you know? I work my ass off and she gets to live off the ruination of my financial life
Kenneth Eade
#54. I have a big ego, but I don't buy into it. I can't live off the ego. It's an honor that I get to be that guy onstage. It's not something I earned.
Steven Tyler
#55. Those who live off of the donations of capitalism are often its greatest critics.
James Cook
#57. That should be our test regarding immigrants. Those who come to America to tear it down or live off of others should not be welcomed.
Marvin Olasky
#58. I can't believe I spent 13 years at school and never got taught cooking, gardening, conversation, massage, Latin, or philosophy. What were they thinking? That I would somehow live off inorganic chemistry?
Neel Burton
#59. I eat an egg every morning, and when I'm done, I almost always have the thought: 'There. Now even if I'm captured and starved, I'll be able to live off the protein of that egg for a while.'
Miranda July
#60. In a time where everyone is searching for success, it's easy for other so called entrepreneurs to live off them because they haven't learned patience when it comes to money.
James Jean-Pierre
#61. Happy are they who can please and delight their senses with things insensate - and who can live off their death.
Michel De Montaigne
#62. A celebrity is a person known for his well-knownness. Celebrities intensify their celebrity images simply by being well known for relations among themselves. By a kind of symbiosis, celebrities live off each other.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#63. three hundred trout are required to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, which must consume 27 million grasshoppers, which live off of 1,000 tons of grass."10
Jeremy Rifkin
#64. Man was not designed to eat pills and powders and all the other chemicals they pump you full of. We were meant to live off the land in harmony with it. Not in some safety bubble.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#65. I'd like to live off the band, but if not, I'll just retire to Mexico or Yugoslavia with a few hundred dollars, grow potatoes, and learn the history of rock through back issues of Creem magazine.
Kurt Cobain
#66. Your fans, they love you erratic, charmingly gut-shot.
They place the rose in your teeth, and you live off the thorns.
Shay Caroline
#67. A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.
James Lovelock
#68. To this day, I still haven't touched one dime of my signing bonus or NFL contract money. I live off my marketing money and haven't blown it on any big-money expensive cars, expensive jewelry, or tattoos and still wear my favorite pair of jeans from high school.
Rob Gronkowski
#70. I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.
Juice Newton
#71. It's funny because unlike back in the seventies when I made hardly any money, today I could just live off the past if I wanted to. I have no interest in that.
Mick Rock
#72. I considered going off grid, but where was "off grid" anymore that didn't require me to know how to kill an elephant seal and live off its blubber?
Jeremy Robert Johnson
#73. Voters who live off taxpayers are the Democrats' ace in the hole. The Democrats created big programs and never let the recipients forget it. This gives them an initial advantage of tens of millions of votes in any presidential election.
Joseph Sobran
#74. The strong live off the weak and the clever live off the strong.
Neil Strauss
#75. Only a teaspoon of self-pity, girl. Every day give yourself a teaspoonful, but only a teaspoonful. Fill it up full, but only once! Don't let yourself have more. You can't live off it. But just a bit of it is like a tonic.
Breena Clarke
#76. We bought an apartment building and were going to live off the rent money. We rented to people who were on welfare and a lot of times they couldn't pay the rent. We wouldn't throw them out so we lost the building.
Dick York
#78. How can anyone live off of minimum wage?
Tom Douglas
#79. A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.
Jonah Goldberg
#80. Hatred can become like food, it gives you this energy that you can, like, live off ...
Claire Danes
#81. Hate could do that, too - live off nothing but itself - but not forever.
Laini Taylor
#82. We killed our own hogs, we killed our own beef, we raised our own vegetables, which Mama canned. We did live off the land.
Si Robertson
#83. No matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be.
Ron Currie Jr.
#84. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.
Cameron West
#85. I am nothing if not rational about what is worthy of my anxiety and what is not, and I refuse to live my life as if a giant bus is just around the corner, waiting to crush me the minute I step off the curb.
Deborah Copaken Kogan
#86. I don't want to live life too cautiously. I mean, you can step off a curb and twist your ankle.
Rickie Fowler
#87. There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.
Tempestt Bledsoe
#88. I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember ... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
Randy Pausch
#89. He smiles and the world is okay. It feels like it grew a tiny bit. Like I let him into the small corner where I live. He grabs my hand, squeezing it and kisses the top of it, Now stop trying to scare me off with talks of having kids and area rugs and shit. I'm not going anywhere.
Tara Brown
#90. If we hope to live in victory, we must keep our eyes off of the world and on the One who perfects us through grace.
Darlene Schacht
#91. You needed a vision of the future in order to get anywhere; you couldn't live life thinking you were always about to fall off a cliff.
Alexandra Kleeman
#92. We groove off of everything, any sort of live show. The inner dialogue you're having with yourself, between you and the music, is for me the search for God.
Tina Weymouth
#93. I'm horrible to live with. I don't clean. My clothes end up wherever I take them off. I forget to flush the toilet.
Megan Fox
#94. The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.
John F. Kennedy
#95. Dates only make us aware of how numbered our days are, how much closer to death we are for each one we cross off. From now on, Punzel, we're going to live by the sun and the seasons.' He picked me up and spun me around, laughing.'Our days will be endless.
Claire Fuller
#96. Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it'll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.
Kevin Hart
#97. Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is an ancient lifeline by which we are awakened time and again. Once reawakened, we more easily find our way to each other, and so help each other live.
Mark Nepo
#98. World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me live, then I will die. But you won't succeed in that. Chop my head off, and it won't harm me. I have a God who will give me a new one.
Martin Luther
#99. Her country crumbling to dust, and with broken men all around, Queen Shuri went off to her doom. I could have gone with her. But someone had to fight and someone had to live. And after we parted, I wondered- still wonder- how a man walks away and leaves his only sister to die.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#100. I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
Patricia Norris
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