Top 100 Off For Quotes
#1. A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke
#2. Voice-acting, on the fun meter, is off the scale. You show up, you don't have to be all primped up, or dressed up. And you get to work with some amazing people, and goof off for four hours.
Jason Marsden
#3. Not a very regal send-off for a prince." I laughed as the lions retreated into the bush again.
"That was me and Goma when I was little," said Jack, starting the car. "I was always chasing something, and she was always pulling me back.
Leylah Attar
#4. When you want a break from dogs, and you take them to the kennel to the stars, no one thinks you're a bad pet owner. But when you have kids, you can't drop them off for three weeks without someone calling Child Protective Services!
Gabrielle Union
#5. No one hit home runs the way Babe did. They were something special. They were like homing pigeons. The ball would leave the bat, pause briefly, suddenly gain its bearings, then take off for the stands.
Lefty Gomez
#6. Elvira cut her gaze back to her man, lifted a finger, and wagged it at him. That works for me but, for you, just sayin', you gettin' what you need to start your day just got cut off for an indefinite period of time.
Kristen Ashley
#7. Can't you ever get off for good behavior?"
"Sure, if I was ever good.
Richelle Mead
#8. What the fuck are you laughing at, Godfrey?" Johnson moved away from Day.
"You, daddy's boy."
"Fuck you. I know Day is just showing off for you." Johnson turned back to look at Day. "I'll be sure to catch you when you're alone."
"I'll be sure to have my rape whistle," Day retorted.
A.E. Via
#9. There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.
Max Tundra
#10. I have seen players sent off for far worse offences than that.
Alan Brazil
#11. I like my women in a few wisps of drapery: then I can hope for a chance to remove the wisps. If they start out with nothing I tend to get depressed because either they have just stripped off for someone else or, in my line of work, they are usually dead.
Lindsey Davis
#12. Imagine if we succeed in inspiring our audiences to reduce their own impacts on climate change by just one percent. That would be like turning the State of California off for almost two months.
Rupert Murdoch
#13. I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely.
Stephen Colbert
#14. It seems to me now that what I wanted when I set off for Europe was not so much adventure as deliverance.
Jan Ellison
#15. Oversoul Seven grimaced at Cyprus and began the examination. 'Let's see,' he said, 'In Earth terms, using an analogy, I'm a man on Wednesday and Friday, a woman on Sunday and Thursday, and have the rest of the time off for independent study.
Jane Roberts
#16. I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
Jerry B. Jenkins
#17. How pleasant to hold in mind, through the crevasses of our moods, at three in the afternoon when lassitude and despair threaten, that there is always a plane taking off for somewhere.
Alain De Botton
#18. Your best athletes might give basketball a try just when they think, geez, this might be something that pays off for me in the end.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
#19. So let your latest grand ideas cool off for a while first. By all means, have as many great ideas as you can. Get excited about them. Just don't act in the heat of the moment. Write them down and park them for a few days. Then, evaluate their actual priority with a calm mind.
Jason Fried
#20. He was guillotined in the French Revolution, and he said he'd keep blinking his eyes after his head was off, for as long as he had consciousness. He blinked seventeen times. That's a scientist, Gill said.
Jo Walton
#21. Don't say 'sorry' like that neither, like a dog that get tell off for messin' on the kitchen floor. Hold your head up. Look the world in the eye. You hear me?
Neil Gaiman
#22. Why not imagine a talk with a pumpkin? Why not imagine going off for a drive with a friendly pumpkin, a companion who would not, after all, answer back; who would agree with everything you said, and would at the end of the day appear on your plate as a final gesture of friendship?
Alexander McCall Smith
#23. 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
#24. But the trade-off for my self-respect was a cold bed and an over-used vibrator, and it was starting to wear thin.
Sierra Simone
#25. If people would turn their TVs off for half the time, study science and practice an instrument, they'd be virtuosos and have Ph.Ds!
Philippe Kahn
#26. What it was at the time was literally a plea for, to get the pressure off for a while, to give her space to breathe. She was very unhappy. She was feeling pretty claustrophobic.
Anthony Holden
#27. This is not the way this is supposed to work, you know. Once these stays come off, they're supposed to bloody remain off for at least a half hour, do you understand me? We should make this a rule from now on.
Erica Monroe
#28. I'm lucky in that I don't like sweet things at all. My father loved cakes to such a degree that he kept forcing them down my throat when I was little, and it put me off for life. He had terrible cholesterol, poor thing.
Felicity Kendal
#29. Ties were always my thing. When I was 18, on Sunday, when everyone was taking off for a casual day, I'd wear a suit to go have brunch.
Albert Hammond Jr.
#30. Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.
Claire Danes
#31. I hope I'm still alive to see an expedition set off for Mars.
James Gunn
#32. How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?
Brian Urlacher
#33. He had the red serviette tucked into his t-shirt at the neck which made me laugh. He hadn't done this since our third date when I had told him off for his bad manners.
Kate Chisman
#34. Get on my back. My enchantments wont hold them off for long.
Candace Knoebel
#35. July is high burglary season because so many people leave town. To help avoid making that obvious, suspend your newspaper subscription and have your mail held. Another clear indication is if all your lights are off for an extended period. To fix that, you can buy a timer for about $30.
Jean Chatzky
#36. Turn your mobile phone off for a few hours each day. Having nothing to do while you're waiting for a bus can be boring, but it's only when you're bored that the scary thoughts come to the surface. Use a dumb phone on the weekends to prevent yourself from checking your messages.
Julien Smith
#37. Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.
Orson Scott Card
#38. The humanitarian developers behind World of Warcraft have also discovered a way to bribe gamers into turning off their computers and going outside. If you log off for a few days, your character will be more 'rested' when you resume playing, a mode that temporarily speeds up your leveling.
Clive Thompson
#39. We always knew that we wanted to keep Atlantis off for a while and when it did show up, to make it a big story. The goal for Aquaman was to position him as an A-list character; position him as an important member of the Justice League.
Geoff Johns
#40. The question should not be: Should I take a week off for my injury? The correct question is: How can I promote positive healing in the impaired tissue?
Jay Dicharry
#41. That probably wasn't the smartest thing you've ever done. Points for style, I guess. Points off for being too stupid to live.
Seanan McGuire
#42. My mum was no pushy parent. She would drop me off for auditions when I was in my teens at the Lyric Theatre, then give me my bus fare and say she would see me later at home. She wasn't hanging around in the wings geeing me on. I had to do it on my own; it was up to me.
Rachel Tucker
#43. Shay is always insecure and that was a big turn off for me.
Jessica M
#44. Another explained, I think I'd speak for any introvert when I say if you could hear all the thoughts running through an introvert's mind at any given moment - you'd feel like you'd just had your ear talked off for the last hour.
Sophia Dembling
#45. I don't like boys who are mean to their mommies. That's a real turn off for me. And I don't like boys who aren't chivalrous. To me, not being respectful is a big deal.
Megan Fox
#46. 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
#47. You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.
L. Ron Hubbard
#48. You could write your fingers off for 25 years ... and never get the kind of hearing you could get from shooting off your mouth on television for a half hour every week.
Jack Germond
#49. off for the highest pass on the Pamir Highway
Tom Bruce
#50. You're gonna have to explain all this shit to me, Frank. You don't just tell a guy he's dead and get him to throw a stiff into the river for you and then we fuck off for donuts.
Carsten Stroud
#51. I'm off for a quiet pint - followed by fifteen noisy ones.
Gareth Chilcott
#52. I am forced to conclude that God made Texas on his day off, for pure entertainment, just to prove that all that diversity could be crammed into one section of earth by a really top hand."
Mary Lasswell
Mary Lasswell
#53. I took my shirt off for you?" ... "Yes. Lovely moment.
J. Lynn
#55. Try, before taking off for distant hemispheres to notice what we have already seen.
Alain De Botton
#56. But one thing I have to say about Darcy and dating is this: she never blew us off for a guy. She always put her friends first- which is an amazing thing for a high school girl to do.
Emily Giffin
#57. Family drama is a trade off for having family.
C.C. Hunter
#58. Maybe I don't have enough to do. Maybe I have time to think too much. Why don't we shut the whole house off for a few days and take a vacation?
Ray Bradbury
#60. I, on the other hand, believe that books, maps, scissors, and Scotch tape dispensers are all unreliable vagrants, likely to take off for parts unknown unless strictly confined to quarters.
Anne Fadiman
#61. It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!
Chaske Spencer
#62. On the day of the party I walked down to Covent Garden at lunchtime to buy a dress, and on my way to Boules I thought I would just stop off for a moment at Books etc.
Helen DeWitt
#63. Unless they're utterly heartless, people put a certain value on human life. It keeps us from killing each other off for no reason. But for leaders like you and me, a moral high ground is too absolute. There are choices to be made.
Amanda Bouchet
#64. It is worth noticing that those who assume an imposing demeanor and seek to pass themselves off for something beyond what they are, are not unfrequently as much underrated by some as overrated by others.
Richard Whately
#65. When I meet a new person, something has to be a little off for me to consider them beautiful. It could be crooked teeth, or veins in their skin that are a little too visible, or a really dramatic lazy eye. The first guy I ever kissed had a water head.
Amy Sedaris
#66. Charmed is fun and light, one of those shows that let you turn your brain off for an hour.
Shannen Doherty
#67. My position in the army is as sport instructor. This allows me generous time off for travel and competition. I also receive a monthly salary from the army.
Roman Sebrle
#68. Neil Lennon wasn't sent off for scoring a goal, and that's what annoys me
Martin O'Neill
#69. I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy ... and then I did Spain and France by myself.
Michael Fassbender
#70. That's the thing about Lionsgate. They are fearless. No other studio would have made 'Hunger Games' the way they did. They're being fearless in the way they make decisions, and it's paying off for them.
Drew Goddard
#71. I don't know how you can do comedy once every two weeks. Ever since I started, if I'm off for three days, I got to learn how to do comedy again.
Michael Che
#72. When you're that No. 1 seed, teams are gunning for you, everybody wants to be that team to knock you off. For us, we get a chance to face the No. 1 team for a second time this year, so let's see what happens.
Hines Ward
#73. Yeah, I played video games on and off for quite a few years. I played Doom and was a fan of the game and that was my prime reason for doing the film.
Karl Urban
#74. I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary Clinton
#75. Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety.
Dorothea Brande
#76. The expensive-looking thing in her hand resembled a cross between a miniature oar and an orthopedic brace. She was off for a fast game of something, but Case had no idea what.
William Gibson
#77. I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.
Chelsea Cain
#78. Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years with time off for good behavior?
James B. Donovan
#79. Psychological horror I've always appreciated, like 'Rosemary's Baby.' The slasher movies and the grotesque movies are the ones that I've really been off for a while.
John Carroll Lynch
#80. In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.
Haruki Murakami
#81. I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.
Georgann Low
#82. Owning a business is NOT about working your ass off for the sake of trying to squeeze out a living. It is NOT about making tons of money at the expense of losing tons of life. It IS about maximizing life, bettering your life and the lives of others, which, not so ironically, fattens your purse.
Mike Michalowicz
#83. In hospitals there is no time off for good behavior.
Josephine Tey
#84. When we left school, it was the early eighties. This country was on its knees. There were no jobs, none. If you couldn't go into Daddy's business, you emigrated or went on the dole. Even if you had the money and the points for college - and we didn't - that just put it off for a few years.
Tana French
#85. You have to protect the integrity of the show, your health, the character, all those things. So it's just about finding the right moments for everything. And if you're too stressed or tired, you to just back off for a little bit.
Dianna Agron
#86. I've worked in network and cable on and off for a number of years, and you just understand what your parameters are. A lot of times, I think the best work that my team has come up with comes from having to deal with certain boundaries.
Shawn Ryan
#87. I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
Reggie Jackson
#88. When they set off for their first day at their new school, I will never forget that winter morning as I watched our girls, just 7 and 10 years old, pile into those black SUVs with all those big men with guns.
Michelle Obama
#89. I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Ezra Pound
#90. Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.
Anthony Burgess
#91. Golf tip: Lay off for three weeks and then quit for good.
Sam Snead
#92. I left with my canvas bag in which a few fundamental things were packed and took off for the Pacific Ocean with the fifty dollars in my pocket.
Jack Kerouac
#93. When I was a kid, I got sent off for head-butting a referee: I ran 50m to argue a decision, I was shown a red card, and I head-butted him. I'm really not proud of that.
Luis Suarez
#94. On Christmas Day I'll head off for a couple of laps around the Serpentine, or a trek around the whole of Hyde Park. Or I'll walk right across town, with Curtis, my son Jamie's bull mastiff
Stella Vine
#95. I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
Caitlyn Jenner
#96. I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
Terence Stamp
#97. This was a smokescreen. Morrie made that obvious. Mitch, if you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down at you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere.
Anonymous
#98. To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.
Edna Buchanan
#99. Sometimes I don't even pull my shoes off for six weeks at a time, except, you know, just to take a shower. I just take breaks between 24 hours a day, just a break now and then, it don't take me long to rest; maybe 20 to30 minutes sometime, or maybe an hour.
Howard Finster
#100. I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.
Tina Fey
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