Top 100 Off Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Guido had lived as all Jews do, who, cut off from their people by accident or choice, find that they must inhabit a world whose constituents, being alien, force the mind to succumb to an imaginary populace.
Djuna Barnes
#3. A novice was trying to fix a broken Lisp machine by turning the power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing, spoke sternly: "You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding of what is going wrong." Knight turned the machine off and on. The machine worked.
Danny Hillis
#4. Bouncing ideas off people when you're thinking up comedy is great.
Casey Nicholaw
#5. Homeschooling allows you the freedom to step off the highway of learning and take a more scenic route along a dirt road.
Tamara L. Chilver
#6. The scare quotes burn off like fog.
Ben Lerner
#7. I started shedding friends like layers of winter clothing and found that even if I got cold, I would rather build my own damn fire. I was better off without them." I shrug, letting him know that's all there was to it.
Claire Contreras
#8. I'd like to start off by saying that every experience no matter what it is, good or bad, you'll learn from it. That's just life. But something I've done I've regretted is probably picking on my siblings growing up, because you appreciate them so much more as you grow older.
Olivia Culpo
#9. Beckett stood in his office dressed to the nines: his best suit, cufflinks, amazing shoes, and expensive sunglasses. Underneath he had so many weapons that a good speed bump would blow him off the face of the earth.
Debra Anastasia
#10. Who are Bella and Edward?" I shrug off the question and don't turn around as I ask, "What?" "Or Mac and Jericho? How about Jamie and Claire?
Rachel Hollis
#11. I try to take notes of things that happen that I think are important or interesting or just little tidbits here and there that happen in life. And some of it's even just one line or like a saying and I just go off that.
Courtney Barnett
#12. No performer should attempt to bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth.
Harry Houdini
#13. Nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother's machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a light and leaving a room.
Fannie Flagg
#14. Ronnie snarled and Brendon roared back.
Her eyes narrowed. "You roared at me?"
"And I'll do it again if you can't keep your paws off my Oreos.
Shelly Laurenston
#15. Caroline scrambled off his lap, gazing down at the Persian rug. "Is this thing Scotchgarded?
Cecilia London
#16. I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.
Clint Eastwood
#17. I like smoking at home. I like it to be one of the last things I do that day. I don't wake and bake at all; I couldn't do that. If I'm waking and baking, then I'm staying inside my place the rest of the day. I can't start my day off high.
Hannibal Buress
#18. So biggest pussies in METAL, I'd say a lot of these emo bands come off as pussies.They have those beards and tight jeans and to me they all look so fake.
Charlie Benante
#19. Certain actors wanna get paid, they think working in a low-budget movie is being ripped off. But for others it's like, 'Yes, let's do it.'
Abel Ferrara
#20. Many people come into company full of what they intend to say in it themselves, without the least regard to others; and thus charged up to the muzzle are resolved to let it off at any rate.
Lord Chesterfield
#21. Master Salamon usually set off a little later as neither he nor other male members of their community were in the habit of walking on the road alongside their wives.
Swarnakanthi Rajapakse
#22. I love working with other people and bouncing ideas off them.
Gia Coppola
#23. Things are bigger than you because God is bigger than you. When you see that God is guiding your life, you're better off.
Leigh Hershkovich
#24. Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.
Mary Roach
#25. 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
#26. I'm - sorry about being a lousy date," Alec muttered.
"What are you talking about?" Magnus asked. "You're a fantastic date. You've only been here ten minutes, and I already got half of your clothes off.
Cassandra Clare
#27. I did envisage being this successful as a player, but not all the hysteria around it off the golf course.
Tiger Woods
#28. All companies would be better off if they stopped trying to be amazing and just focused on being useful.
Jay Baer
#29. You wake in the morning, you're feeling fine, but all at once you think, "Something's not right. Something's off somewhere; what is it?" And then you remember that it's your child - whichever one is unhappy.
Anne Tyler
#30. If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.
Christian De Duve
#31. I wanted to try something different. Most people my age go off to college; I thought I'd try out New York.
Sky Ferreira
#32. For some strange reason, beans always fall off knives.
Basil Wolverton
#33. If every cigarette you smoke takes seven minutes off of your life, every game of Dungeons & Dragons you play delays the loss of your virginity by seven hours.
Marilyn Manson
#34. God will give us the strength to be able to handle things. I mean, you can try to do it on your own, and sometimes you can pull off some stuff, but in the long run, it's much easier with Him by our side.
Bethany Hamilton
#35. Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She has a philosophical and economical message that she is passing off as fiction, but it really isn't fiction at all.
Theodore Sturgeon
#36. Firstly, though we have to clean this blood up off the tiles before it dries. It is far easier to clean the blood up while it's still wet."
"How do you know this stuff?" Grace said completely baffled.
"Dexter," Angela said shrugging and thinking that was as good an explanation as any.
Patti Roberts
#37. Even though the museums guarding their precious property fence everything off, in my own studio, I made them so you and I could walk in and around, and among these sculptures.
George Segal
#38. Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#39. And so you ask a very good question. Why go on? Why even start off on such a path? What is to be gained from embarking on such a journey? Where is the incentive? What is the reason? The reason is ridiculously simple. There is nothing else to do.
Neale Donald Walsch
#40. Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time.
Toni Morrison
#41. To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping into the water off the concrete edge of the Fitzroy Baths.
Helen Garner
#42. I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#43. The system is in place whereby if an umpire cries off, or both as was the case here, those umpires are to be replaced.
Mark Webber
#44. A very different kind of place, was Blake's answer. He slammed his door shut, and Daemon about snapped his head off.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#45. Rock Hudson let his gay agent marry him off to his secretary because he didn't want people to get the right idea.
Anthony Perkins
#46. Where are the drug cartels getting their weapons? They are being provided by the United States. Cut off that flow of arms.
Noam Chomsky
#47. Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once? Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was.
Donna McDonald
#48. You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy.
Bob Geldof
#49. I have long begged off the question of my albums reflecting where I am 'at' personally. There is more inaccuracy in that approach than accuracy.
Bill Callahan
#50. I remember stepping off and thinking that it might not be a good idea to let anyone know that I'm a homosexual, which is hilarious because I'm probably the gayest man I know. I had these huge dreams and they came to fruition so quickly.
Leslie Jordan
#51. I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
Gary Neville
#52. Benedict Allen gives you the impression that he hasn't done any research at all, and I am sure he has. And when he is off doing his ice dogs and that sort of thing - and therefore its not only an exploration of the place but also his imagination in a sense. It's very successful as technique.
John Gimlette
#53. I talked to my agent and said that, basically, I'm the Taylor Lautner of TV. We both have our shirts off a lot. And we have the same agent, so we goof around about it. I'm waiting to open a script and see my shirt on.
Chord Overstreet
#54. Freedom just around the corner for you, but with the truth so far off, what good will it do?
Bob Dylan
#55. Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.
William Shatner
#56. When I was very small, the electricity was turned off because we didn't pay the bill. I remember sitting by the oil lamp listening to my mother playing 'Careless Love' on the piano.
Jools Holland
#57. I don't think it ever works to tell people what they can't eat. They can do it for so long, and then they fall off. You have to bring them into a new relationship with food.
Alice Waters
#58. Whatever I thought might hold me back, I avoided. I crossed girls off my list, except as tools for my sexual needs.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#59. Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage ... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.
Hunter S. Thompson
#60. They thought he was only what they could see. A nice boy but a bit of a goof, a bit of a show-off. Not the brightest star in the universe; not a numbers person, but you couldn't have everything you wanted and at least he wasn't a total washout.
Margaret Atwood
#61. Confucius say better to be pissed off than pissed on.
Confucius
#62. Daisy, you're too damned innocent to understand the danger you're in. It's taking all the self-control I've got to keep my hands off you. Don't play games with me, sweetheart. It's too easy for you to torture me, and I'm at my limit.
Lisa Kleypas
#63. The primary problem is to learn to be your own toughest critic. You have to pay attention to intelligent work, and to work at the same time. You see. I mean, you've got to bounce off better work. It's matter of working.
Garry Winogrand
#65. The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that.
Robin Williams
#66. I have 120 employees on the road every day, and about 30 other employees off the road.
Kenny Chesney
#67. If I'm exhausted and I just don't feel like it, then I don't do it. I am a human being, after all. But I also know I'm the kind of person who, if I take one day off, well, it's very easy for me to take the next day off and then quit exercising.
Kelly Ripa
#68. I might not say it, but I obviously show you how I feel," she says. "Why do the words have to be so important?"
"They just are," he says, standing up and brushing off the back of his jeans. "Not because you're saying them, but because you're not.
Jennifer E. Smith
#69. He walked backwards a few more steps and brought Brittany's hand to his lips without taking his eyes off me.
My hand tingled where he kissed her.
And the bastard knew it.
Gwen Hayes
#70. If Stephen Harper took off his shirt in public, I'm not sure he'd raise any money for charity,
Margaret Trudeau
#71. Dove ripped her panties off her body like the Hulk and threw them in the corner.
Debra Anastasia
#72. Well, I think that Augusta is not the same golf course that I grew up on. Bobby Jones' philosophy was giving you space off the tee; if you put it in the right side of the fairway, you ended up getting the right angle to the green.
Jack Nicklaus
#73. I think there was a pretty smooth hand-off from the administration of President Clinton to the administration of President Bush, particularly in the counterterrorism area. The reason I say that is because there was, for transitions, I think a stunning continuity.
Richard Armitage
#74. Once you begin deliberating about where your fingers are jumping on the piano keyboard, you can no longer pull off the piece.
David Eagleman
#75. How's your head?" the larger man asked.
"Do me a favor and cut it off," Black muttered. "It's more pain than it's worth right
now.
Tricia Owens
#76. God, I wish, for the millionth time, that I could be like her and Nic, so sure of what they have, what they want. That I didn't always feel jangly, restless, primed to jump off a bridge and let the current carry me away.
Huntley Fitzpatrick
#77. Can I just say that I don't care if two planes or trains or whatever take off from different locations at different times and travel at different speeds. I am not traffic control, so why the hell would I care what time they'd pass each other?
Devon Ashley
#78. Are we just going to stand here taking pot shots at each other? Or can we focus our collective ADD on getting us off this shit hole? (Devyn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.
Dave Barry
#80. One who believes all of a book would be better off without books
Mencius
#82. Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet.
Anthony Liccione
#83. And the game of basketball, I play, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.
Kevin Durant
#84. The Baudelaire orphans looked worriedly out the window. They weren't very happy about just being dropped off in a strange place, as if they were a pizza being delivered instead of three children all alone in the world.
Lemony Snicket
#85. I felt an odd sense of protectiveness. It flaked off my skin, revealing a red-hot anger at the idea that someone would hurt him.
Lauren Nicolle Taylor
#86. Let us live for passion,/ for the taking off of clothes,/tossing them over our shoulder.
Susan Browne
#87. I dress some of the most successful women in the world, and meeting these women rubs off on you. A few years ago, the woman was someone I imagined in my head. Now they're real. It's important my work evolve along with me and that I show more facets of myself.
Jason Wu
#88. I'm trying to figure out if you know something that I don't, or if you're really this stupid. You might be older and therefore a lot stronger than I am, Sphinx, but I am a mother and a lot more pissed off than you.
S.R. Crawford
#89. Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.
Albert Camus
#90. Sometimes dirty can come off really cute or come off 'I don't even want you to touch me.'
Kelly Rowland
#91. In moments of unmet desire, heartbreak, or grief, Satan sends a poisonous arrow of doubt straight at your heart. This was his plan with Eve. He persuaded her to think God was "holding out on her" and that she would be better off not listening to Him.
Marian Jordan Ellis
#92. Imagine the awful satisfaction, to know that all those years of worry had paid off.
Gillian Flynn
#93. My goals have always been to inspire people to be the best they could be, on and off the field.
Tyrone Willingham
#94. Nice clothes fall apart. Nice clocks don't work. Bits fall off the nice cooker. It is hard to accept that pricing is unrelated to quality, but it's plainly true. Nowadays, we pay the price that satisfies our particular personality type; and then we live with the painful consequences.
Lynne Truss
#95. Really hairy backs on men turn me off. I'm not into the ape thing at all. Or beer bellies and flabby arms, either. Also, one random nose hair which is longer than the others ... that's gross.
Nadine Velazquez
#96. She rose. "I'll just go get the wine."
"I'm not interested in wine."
She walked away, tossed a glance over her shoulder. "You will be. When I start licking it off you.
J.D. Robb
#97. I am surprised you didn't whack your head on an overhanging branch back there. I have never seen anyone leap straight up off the ground the way you did when you saw that snake! It would make a good move for our next dance. Do you think you could teach the others? The snake jump?
Jennifer Frick-Ruppert
#98. My mind was blown by how much I felt I was like Peeta. We shot in the forest near Asheville, North Carolina-a lot of fight scenes, very physically demanding. Jennifer and I totally hit it off. We're both crazy people-we don't hold anything back.
Josh Hutcherson
#99. I don't know, people take chances on stage. It's a big free speech zone, a comedy show. So sometimes things happen, you say things that are a little bit off the edge.
Drew Carey
#100. Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.
Lee Child
