Offs Quotes

#1. Spin-offs were never really my thing.

Danny Masterson

#2. Our target is to get into the play-offs. If not, we want automatic promotion.

Dennis Oli

#3. When people think of performing they usually think of show-offs, but I think of it more that you disappear into somebody else.

Rachel Weisz

#4. Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK and I had hit records I would also have a high tax bill at the end of the year, and that would be the time to buy up all the technology - it was write offs.

Tony Visconti

#5. It takes real guts to ignore or even alienate 93% of customers, focusing instead on the 7% of the market that is fanatical about you and willing to put up with the trade-offs.

Verne Harnish

#6. It's in the past. I can't control what they did, only how I react to it. I'm not going to change who I am because of what some jack offs think of me.

Magan Vernon

#7. As best I can tell there was no advance warning of the attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, which was the first significant foreign terrorist activity in the U.S. No tip-offs that it was coming.

Bobby Ray Inman

#8. The myth is that women and their families don't have to make trade-offs to have an 'extreme career'; they absolutely do. How you prioritize your life and career is your choice. Once you make a decision, stick to it; don't always second-guess yourself.

Angela Braly

#9. Knock-offs may look good, but they never last as long as the real thing.

N.M. Silber

#10. Maybe I shouldn't and I should flip my middle finger up to the world. Hell, I should make all my fingers dance in a bouquet of fuck offs.

Tracy Krimmer

#11. And I have no intention of going out with him just because he's "in love" with me. Which he's probably not. Because why would he be? I'm not pretty, and I like to use words with a lot of letters in them - two big turn-offs for guys.

Louise Rozett

#12. Everything-everything-was communicated through the sound of the music. There were no other signals of any kind ever-no count-offs, head nods, spoken instructions ... nothing.

Chuck Israels

#13. When someone writes something dazzlingly brilliant, people want to imitate it. The result is a lot of less-than-brilliant knock-offs. Elves, Dwarves, Goblin army, cursed ring, evil sorcerer. Tolkien did it. It rocked. Let's move on. Let's do something new.

Patrick Rothfuss

#14. When you choose a language, you're choosing more than a set of technical trade-offs-you're choosing a community.

Joshua Bloch

#15. Just because everyone CAN publish a book these days, doesn't mean everyone SHOULD. The world doesn't need 1000 knock-offs of 50 Shades of Grey. I'm not so sure the world even needed ONE 50 Shades of Grey.

Oliver Gaspirtz

#16. I hate the technological rip-offs that pass for music formats these days, and go back to vinyl to hear a good record because the sound is always so much fuller. I don't even like listening to music in the car.

John Lydon

#17. Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living.

Peter Blair Henry

#18. The advent of AIDS circa 1980 has really forced medicine and biology to take enormous steps just for sheer survival. The same way war propels hard technology, AIDS has created wartime conditions in the field of biology that will have all sorts of spin-offs.

Paul Di Filippo

#19. When the weather is really hot, I tend to live in denim cut-offs.

Ashley Madekwe

#20. All experience has taught us that solving a complex problem uncovers hidden assumptions and ever more knowledge, trade-offs that we didn't anticipate but which can make the difference between meeting a deadline and going into research mode for a year, etc.

Erik Naggum

#21. You might be a redneck if you think people that send out graduation announcements are show-offs.

Jeff Foxworthy

#22. So the researchers concluded that being forced to confront trade-offs in making decisions makes people unhappy and indecisive.

Barry Schwartz

#23. I've loved the "Star Wars" movies for the ride and pure fun and found that it just didn't stand up when asked for more, particularly when it comes to back stories, prequels, spin-offs, encyclopedic scope, etc.

Hank Stuever

#24. Trade-offs require clear choices, yet in a world of powerful forces, it is often easier to compromise than to make difficult choices. By

Bharat Anand

#25. The goblins have been after me ever since I helped the Coven drive them out of Essex. (They were gobbling up drunk people in club bathrooms, and the Mage was worried about losing regional slang.) I think the goblin who successfully offs me gets to be king.

Rainbow Rowell

#26. Housework is a treadmill from futility to oblivion with stop-offs at tedium and counter productivity.

Erma Bombeck

#27. I'm not that afraid of heights. I've been 7,000 feet above sea level. Just so long as the land is flat, with no sudden drop-offs, I'm fine.

Jarod Kintz

#28. When you're building something, you know all of the trade-offs ...

Nolan Bushnell

#29. I saw her do 'Different Drum' and thought, that's what I'm gonna do. I don't look that good in cut-offs, but that's what I'm gonna do.

Stevie Nicks

#30. There have been trade-offs every day, every month, every year. There's a lot that I missed and I do have regrets in that area. But I have been able to bring to my family the richness of being a journalist.

Judy Woodruff

#31. The flash of rain, the shining rainbow riding completely around the plane, the lift over mountain ridges, the steady, pure air at dawn take-offs ... It was so alive and rich a life that any other conceivable choice seemed dull, prosaic, and humdrum.

Dean Smith

#32. Acting itself is quite scary. Some people say that actors are show-offs, very egotistical and all that kind of stuff, but it is quite scary.

Michael Sheen

#33. In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Ian Goldin

#34. May I just single out for salutations, on the 'anti-war' side: Pop Stars For Appeasement, Dancers Against Democracy, Actors For Apathy, Fashionistas For Fascism and Jugglers For Genocide. All of them united under that flaccid flag of convenience, Show-Offs For Saddam.

Julie Burchill

#35. Basically, I use hammer-ons and pull-offs.

Stanley Jordan

#36. Any business or industry that pays equal rewards to its goof-off and its eager beavers sooner or later will find itself with more goof-offs than eager beavers.

Mick Delaney

#37. I don't really like long flights any more - I find them too tiring. Flying always involves the same things these days - huge crowds at airports, waiting around, late take-offs, weather problems, and so on. I don't really enjoy travelling. I don't imagine anyone does except young children.

Christopher Lee

#38. Maybe the Truth of the Meaning of Life, Ancient and Arcane Knowledge of the Great Unknowable Universe is handed down only to persons presenting with the correct brand-name footwear. If you turn up wearing Shoe City knock-offs, you don't get to pass Go and collect Infinite Enlightenment.

Tracy Engelbrecht

#39. Clair watched the young man pour Paul's Scotch with a previously unseen professionalism. Her wedding ring, her gentle brush-offs, and her outright rejection had been minor obstacles compared to the big no of another man kissing her cheek.

Karin Slaughter

#40. No punching?" he asked.
"No."
"No kicking?"
"No."
"How about arm wrestling?"
"No. And before you ask, we've avoided Slug Bug, Slap Bets, and any and all Dance-Offs."
Fate Succumbs

Tammy Blackwell

#41. Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it's about deliberately choosing to be different.

Michael Porter

#42. Shorts are practically a uniform in every woman's closet. Tailored shorts are okay for running around, and if you're 18, you can get away with cut-offs. But it's very easy to make a mistake with shorts.

Trinny Woodall

#43. I'm tired of all these hippie jack-offs

Janis Joplin

#44. I think performers are all show-offs anyway, especially musicians. Unless you show off, you're not going to get noticed.

Elton John

#45. What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding? The

Atul Gawande

#46. Every country has it trade offs.

Peter Tork

#47. Moviemakers are rewarded with tax write-offs if, when seeking a location that looks like America, they seek it in America.

P. J. O'Rourke

#48. One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

Barack Obama

#49. emotional cost of potential trade-offs does more than just diminish our sense of satisfaction with a decision. It also interferes with the quality of decisions themselves.

Barry Schwartz

#50. I know people have very little control on an airplane, and that exacerbates the fear of flying. As you probably know, flying is a lot safer than driving. If you think of the thousands of take-offs and landings every day--and the miniscule amount of crashes--that has to put your mind at ease.

Wendy Sue Knecht

#51. Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

Joseph Stiglitz

#52. Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first the cover-up ...

Ken Kesey

#53. While in her heart Batty knew that Ginevra was a nice person, she sometimes couldn't help wondering if nice people could also be show-offs.

Jeanne Birdsall

#54. It's those difficult times that inform the next wonderful time, and it's a series of trade-offs, of events, of wins and losses.

Brad Pitt

#55. Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden.

Thomas Sowell

#56. Hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told.

Jeff Pinkner

#57. The art world has become the R&D department for so much fashion and music, so knock-offs are getting better and better.

Marco Brambilla

#58. This is the world we live in, isn't it? Tons of spin-offs; people reboot things very quickly. I was amazed how quickly they made a Wolverine movie, then, 'Let's do another origins Wolverine movie.'

Joel Edgerton

#59. Well, that's one of the paradoxes of life. You can't have it all. You can have some of this and some of that or all of this and none of that. We make the trade-offs we think are best at the time.

Lisa Wingate

#60. In a budget, how important is art versus music versus athletics versus computer programming? At the end of the day, some of those trade-offs will be made politically.

Bill Gates

#61. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

Richard Dawkins

#62. 'Revenge' is a shameless soap in the style of Eighties shoulder-pad slap-offs like 'Dallas,' 'Dynasty' and 'Falcon Crest.' Yet there's no wink-wink camp.

Rob Sheffield

#63. These are big trade-offs for a simple piece of cake - add five hundred calories, subtract well-being, allure, and self-esteem - and the feelings behind them are anything but vain or shallow.

Caroline Knapp

#64. On Dealing with Bullies "You're going to run into jerk-offs, but remember: It's not the size of the asshole you worry about, it's how much shit comes out of it." On

Justin Halpern

#65. Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

Nick Hornby

#66. I think in a couple of weeks, the question of all these bad write-offs will be behind us because everybody is going to throw in the towel on bad accounting.

Muriel Siebert

#67. Ancient wisdom collides with modern crises, equipping believers to image Christ in a world entranced with salvific knock-offs.

Owen Strachan

#68. You're going to run into jerk-offs, but remember: It's not the size of the asshole you worry about, it's how much shit comes out of it.

Justin Halpern

#69. We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.

Lakshmi Mittal

#70. Self-help books for those who believe You can have it all often advise, Follow your bliss and money will follow. With the collapse of the stock markets the reality of trade-offs is more like, When you follow your bliss, it's money you'll miss.

Warren Farrell

#71. When divorces meant marriage no longer provided security for a lifetime, women adjusted by focusing on careers as empowerment. But when the sacrifice of a career met the sacrifices in a career, the fantasy of a career became the reality of trade-offs. Women developed career ambivalence.

Warren Farrell

#72. As an economist, I'm aware that life is full of trade offs.

Peter Blair Henry

#73. What were her biggest fears and concerns? What goals were most important to her? What trade-offs was she willing to make, and what ones was she not? Not everyone is able to answer such questions,

Atul Gawande

#74. Work-family conflicts
the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child
would not be forced upon women with suchsanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#75. There was a time when idealistic folksingers such as myself believed that Reality TV was a programming vogue that would peak and recede, leaving only its hardiest show-offs. Instead, it has metastasized like toxic mold, filling every nook and opening new crannies.

James Wolcott

#76. Acting attracts shy people and show-offs.

Penelope Wilton

#77. There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.

John Petrucci

#78. The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.

Thomas Sowell

#79. Economists specialize in pointing out unpleasant trade-offs - a skill that is on full display in the health care debate. We want patients to receive the best care available. We also want consumers to pay less. And we don't want to bankrupt the government or private insurers. Something must give.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#80. I love Tom [Waits] for the same reason I love Leonard Cohen, which is that they are both one-offs, templates; they both seemed old, or at least dressed old when they were young; both kind of lived their careers backwards.

Sylvie Simmons

#81. Life is about trade-offs," said the lunatic ... "The difference between happy people and unhappy people is that happy people accept the trade-offs and unhappy people complain about them. Personally, I prefer to be happy.

Jacob M. Appel

#82. There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs.

Thomas Sowell

#83. Meanwhile, time is one of our most scarce resources. At the moment, you are reading instead of working, playing with the dog, applying to law school, shopping for groceries, or having sex. Life is about trade-offs, and so is economics.

Charles Wheelan

#84. We have been suckered into believing that, because there are more men at the top than women at the top, that this is a result of discrimination against women. That's been the misconception. It's all about trade-offs. You earn more money, you usually sacrifice something at home.

Warren Farrell

#85. NASA has spin-offs, and it's a huge and very impressive list, including accurate and affordable LASIK eye surgery.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#86. The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

Frank Hadden

#87. Gina Rodgers raised her hand, triggering a class-wide bristle. Everyone wanted to impress Mr. Tipton, but it was Gina who always raised her hand first, like he was going to fall in love with her for her 4.3 GPA or something.

Mira Jacob

#88. I'm not into caps with lots of diamonds on them, like KP.

James Anderson

#89. Special ops have earned the right to boast and don't; you're just a wannabee, which is why you do.

Donna Lynn Hope