Off Topic Quotes

#1. (Off topic, but: What a slut time is. She screws everybody.)

John Green

#2. I like fiction that deals with matters that are of burning importance to us in our private lives. And not all short stories are like that. In general, short stories - and maybe this is a little bit off-topic - but I think short stories have this bad association with, like, waiting rooms.

Lorin Stein

#3. My ears were once pierced, but the tiny holes have since resealed through lack of penetration. And yes, there's another analogy in there, but let's not get off topic.

Virginia Franken

#4. Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. (Off topic, but: What a slut time is.

John Green

#5. I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

David Javerbaum

#6. Her mind whited out, and she coughed. It sounded suspiciously like a whimper. "Well, okay. I guess I blew that round again, didn't I?"
"I don't know," he whispered. "Did you? I found your choice of topic extremely interesting.

Thea Harrison

#7. Magnus's eyes went back to Alec. They were gold-green, as unreadable as the eyes of the cat he held on his lap. "Not my favorite topic, Smedley."
"Simon", said Simon. "If I'm going to die for you all, the least you could do is remember my name.

Cassandra Clare

#8. We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

Russ Feingold

#9. It occurred to him that he may have led them into a topic he had no intentions of exploring further. Fantasies, sure. Wishes, all the time. But reality? No - this was taboo. This would end in nothing good. She

Marissa Meyer

#10. Whatever my current beliefs are, on any topic, they're all open to being changed by the right facts and the right evidence.

Ramez Naam

#11. I once lost a bill betting on the Red Sox,
... But that's another topic.

Diamond D

#12. Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

John Millington Synge

#13. Think of color, pitch, loudness, heaviness, and hotness. Each is the topic of a branch of physics.

Benoit Mandelbrot

#14. Here's a Challenge: Study a complicated topic in such detail that anyone interested can nod their head and understand as you explain specific concepts within the topic.

Albert Einstein

#15. The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover.

Edgar Allan Poe

#16. Knowing whose advice to take and on what topic is the single most important decision an entrepreneur can make.

Vinod Khosla

#17. Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we are just going to live through a lot of these issues until we discover what social norms make sense.

Vint Cerf

#18. Rejection is a universally embarrassing topic and 'Electra Heart' is my response to that. It is a frank album.

Marina And The Diamonds

#19. His expression practically hung out a shingle announcing the topic was off-limits.

Myra McEntire

#20. There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn't bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.

David Bowie

#21. I think it's been the topic of conversation for every one ... If the U.S. is hit again, how are we going to handle it? Our troops are all over the place.

Holly Johnson

#22. There may be people in my audience who may not agree with me on some particular issue - you know, say, as a gun owner, they may not agree with me, or, you know, someone may not agree with me on a gay marriage topic. Any of those things. But those shouldn't be the reasons you listen to my music.

Brad Paisley

#23. The better proof of reverence for that holy name would be not to profane it by making it a topic of legislative discussion ...

James Madison

#24. When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

Clive Thompson

#25. You need to take some time off and delve into the study of the topic you are interested in

Sunday Adelaja

#26. This is fan fiction, but it's the fan fiction of a classical scholar who knows his stuff, even if he is a touch irreverent and unorthodox.

Sarah Warning Potentially Off-Topic

#27. The captain would ... turn off the conversation, like a consummate man of the world, to some topic of general interest, such as the Opera, the Prince's last ball at Carlton House, or the weather - that blessing to society.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#28. I'm pretty quick to delete something off of my phone if it's become obsolete. And things like RSS readers have made life easier - all of the headlines are going to be related to a topic I'm interested in.

Rich Sommer

#29. Art and money are closely related. Try sitting down with a group of artists and ask them what's on their mind. Very quickly the topic shifts to money. And it can be very hard to get them off that subject.

Dave Winer

#30. There was something so unutterably ridiculous about the sight of a US company deleting posts accusing it of censorship that many other people began to protest.

G.R. Reader

#31. Miko shared everything with him and Malachi had become her voice of reason. The only thing he was openly disgusted about was her relationship with the president and in return, it was the one topic that was off-limits. Somehow,

Nako

#32. Off fucking shitty mankind, you change the topic... you say something I say something against and immediately you change the topic, but why?
The soil is too hot?
The sand is too hot?
Why?

Deyth Banger

#33. She didn't even finish her last sentence; it just trailed off. I think the subject had changed in her head while her mouth had continued on the old topic, not realizing it was out of supplies.

Steve Martin

#34. He groaned to see that she was off on that topic. She rolled into it every few days like a train on an open track. He knew every stop, every junction, every swamp along the way, and knew the exact point at which her conclusion would roll majestically into the station

Flannery O'Connor

#35. The thing is, one in three women in the Western world will end up having an abortion, but they never talk about it. When you keep silent about that stuff, it is because you are embarrassed by the societal distaste of the topic.

Caitlin Moran

#36. Usually when we reason, our minds have a tendency to grab any information that seems to be related to the topic, in the process retrieving both relevant cues and those that seem somehow to be connected but may not actually matter

Anonymous

#37. Kids who grow up in radically different environments are always going to have different comfort levels with regard to a topic. If you don't live near a train track, it's hard to squash a penny that way, and if you live in an apartment in New York City, it may be difficult to get to drive a car.

Gever Tulley

#38. I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.

Donella Meadows

#39. Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

Criss Jami

#40. Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.

Michael J. Fox

#41. Now this brings me to my main topic - our military strength - more specifically, how to stay strong against threat from outside, without undermining the economic health that supports our security.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#42. I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.

Jami Attenberg

#43. Dave walked closer to me, his dark eyes combing my every move. "Do you always hold your guitar like that?"
I dropped my pick. "Do you always shop at Hot Topic?

Tara Kelly

#44. Mindgasm (noun) - An exhilarating neurostorm of intense intellectual pleasure. Fully revelatory understanding of a certain topic. Involuntary contractions of brain muscles usually accompanied by the overwhelming sensation of truth proximity. Visionarism. State of awe.

Jason Silva

#45. My father had bought him a shirt
that said Sure you can date my daughter. In a completely unrelated topic,
have you seen my shotgun?

Tara Sivec

#46. I like people who can keep the conversation going no matter how random the topic gets.

Turcois Ominek

#47. Editing is such a voyeuristic treat for me. I land on a theme and ask authors to pen works that fit the topic.

Alison Tyler

#48. Reevaluate your abilities each time when you have been offered to review
an article. And say no thanks if the topic doesn't belong to the field of your expertise.

Eraldo Banovac

#49. First there is the 10-second war: can you do something in your first moments on stage to ensure people's eager attention while you set up your talk topic? Second is the 1-minute war: can you then use that first minute to ensure that they're committed to coming on the full talk journey with you?

Chris J. Anderson

#50. As a homeschooling parent, I have often wondered who learns more in our family, the parent or the child. The topic I seem to be learning the most about is the nature of learning itself.

Jan Hunt

#51. My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first economist to try to rehabilitate Gordon Brown.

Simon Hoggart

#52. It makes sense that whatever the topic is, it's more compelling if you can provide the audience with a range of perspectives, and you can cross disciplines. And you don't have to control what people take out of it.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#53. In health we're doing the digestive system. We each got assigned a topic for an oral report. I got the small intestine. I swear to god I hate my life.

Lynda Barry

#54. Let's forget the reunification, let's just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.

Joschka Fischer

#55. Seventy wins don't mean a thing without the ring.' So it became a topic of discussion.

Sam Smith

#56. Some people believe linking to Wikipedia is bad practice, but I disagree. I'd rather link directly to a topic that is continuously being improved than referring to part of a dead tree that is hard to obtain because it is either expensive or out of stock.

Jurgen Appelo

#57. In Brooklyn, it was as though you were in your own little bubble. You were all part of one big, but very close family, and the Dodgers were the main topic of everybody's conversations and you could sense the affection people had for you. I don't know that such a thing exists anymore.

Don Drysdale

#58. 'Vanity pages,' is somewhat of a derogatory term; personal pages are still the heart of blogging, but now there are more topic-oriented blogs. It's really about personal expression, and that's just gotten bigger and broader.

Evan Williams

#59. I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

Ice Cube

#60. The choice of a topic which will bear analysis and support enthusiasm, is essential to the enjoyment of conversation.

Agnes Repplier

#61. If I say the truth in most cases you will get angry in the others you will just change the topic like nothing has ever happen.

Deyth Banger

#62. The measure of a work of art is how much art it has in it, not how much 'relevance'. Relevant to whom? Relevant to what? Nothing is more ephemeral than a hot topic.

Edward St. Aubyn

#63. I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.

Leslie Jamison

#64. He could be as memorable an orator as his father, particularly when he was speaking on that topic that had captured his imagination;

Robert A. Caro