Top 100 Switch Off Quotes
#1. Thanks for being the kind of person who likes to pick up a book. That's a genuinely great thing. I met a librarian recently who said she doesn't read because books are her job and when she goes home, she just wants to switch off. I think we can agree that that's creepy as hell.
Max Barry
#2. To get the adrenaline pumping between events - or to help me switch off, Jay Z, the Roots and Drake are on my playlist.
Jessica Ennis
#3. Some people can very easily switch off and be guilt free, not that what I'm doing is about guilt, but they can completely disconnect and not care because it doesn't affect them. I've always really cared about what happens and felt a certain responsibility.
Douglas Booth
#4. Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.
Richard Dawkins
#5. I'm always working. Like a lot of creative people I can't switch off. I can't disassociate work from pleasure. My job is my hobby.
Marc Newson
#6. When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
Christopher Hitchens
#7. If we could switch off the aging gene we would. There's no technology that we've had that we haven't used. We are in the capital of staying young forever.
Andrew Niccol
#8. We live a life of privilege. That doesn't mean we can literally switch off these women, whose only fault was being born in the Congo during civil war. We need to bear witness.
Maria Semple
#9. Discipline yourself to be a disciple of great works and to do that excellently, you have to wave "bye-bye" to some things and then switch off your inner person not to go near them again!
Israelmore Ayivor
#10. So you want a knife, a nice sharp knife. You hone that blade to its limits. It even cuts through stone when you want it to. It saves your life. And then you're outraged when it cuts you accidentally. You see, knives don't switch off. And neither do people, not when you hone them to a fine edge.
Karen Traviss
#11. I have no problem with commitment - you can't have a real relationship without it. I can flip on a switch in my brain, and even if the next Brad Pitt is standing next to me, I won't look at him. But I can also turn that switch off, and then I collect attractive boys.
Megan Fox
#12. When you're shooting, there's terrible pressure, and you never switch off. Every day is like the day before an exam; it's relentless.
Lenny Abrahamson
#13. Please. Don't switch off my mind by attempting to straighten me out. Listen and understand, and when you feel contempt don't express it, at least not verbally, at least not to me.
Sarah Kane
#14. I switch off lights like a maniac. I drive at reasonable speeds so that I don't waste petrol.
Joanna Lumley
#15. To increase our objectivity, we must learn to switch off the mini-movies. Objectivity requires us to be mindful, present in the moment, and experiencing what is happening without judgment.
Elizabeth Thornton
#16. Tell me what you can't forget, and I'll tell you who you are. I switch off my apartment light and she comes with the dark.
Julie Buntin
#18. My mind tends to operate a bit like a radar. I don't find it hard to switch off.
Lloyd Dorfman
#19. It's very easy to start a war but the muftah, as the Arabs say, the key to switch off a war, is very difficult to find.
Robert Fisk
#20. When I read, I'm either reading to learn, or I'm reading to switch off.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#21. My mind is never stopping. I think, if you stop, you die. Maybe it is a problem for me - I have to talk to myself and say, 'Please stop. Switch off.'
Domenico Dolce
#22. I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.
Matthew Macfadyen
#23. As a self-employed person, the idea of a break is completely foreign to me. If I completely switch off for any period of time, I know I'm going to pay for it several times over. For me, it's a lot better and easier to stay in touch and know what's going on seven days a week than to switch off.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#24. By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.
Amy Hoggart
#25. It's an academic book, and it's discussed under academic criteria. German historians cultivate so-called objectivity. They persuade themselves that they can switch off the subjective and therefore the unsettling.
Gotz Aly
#26. Obviously, I'm very happy when one of my films becomes a blockbuster. However, after a point, I want to switch off. I have learnt to just move on. Too much pressure can make you wrong.
Rohit Shetty
#27. I haven't got the kind of discipline where I can turn my emotion inside out and then just switch off. It affects me fairly profoundly and I don't like putting myself through that kind of mincer every day.
Jimmy Nail
#28. I particularly dislike the high-profile switch-off campaigns where whole cities are plunged into darkness for an hour as a supposedly symbolic gesture about energy use. So is the implication that we all need to live in constant gloom to reduce CO2 emissions?
Mark Lynas
#29. I'm a fucking razor-arsed starship, you maniac! I'm not male, female or anything else except stupendously smart and right now tuned to smite. I don't give a fuck about flattering you. The few and frankly not vitally important sentiments I have concerning you I can switch off like flicking a switch.
Iain M. Banks
#30. I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others' houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It's almost like our own little school - a really little school.
Willow Shields
#31. What's the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.
Will Hermes
#32. The trouble with addiction is that you can park the car but you can never switch off the engine or stop yourself from hearing the revs.
Simon Pegg
#33. Between takes I find it difficult to switch off and then try and re-emerge myself in the part, so I try to stay in that frame of mine all day. It can be exhausting and you lose a sense of self, but it is the method that works best for me.
Hayden Christensen
#34. I kinda lose my mind in 'Fringe,' or at least my character does. Whenever I'm acting, I tend to accidentally become unable to switch off the character. I'm a little bit of a method actor, but without really wanting to be.
Natassia Malthe
#35. If one would cancel all traffic rules and switch off all traffic lights, watching city traffic on TV would be also awfully interesting!
Oleg Romanishin
#36. Pain observed is journalistic pain. It's diplomatic pain. It's television pain, over as soon as you switch off your beastly set.
John Le Carre
#37. When you've done something for more than a third of your life, your whole adult life, and then all of a sudden you're going to have to switch off and say, 'No more,' you want to grasp as much of it and enjoy the last few years of it as much as you can. Because you can't get those years back.
Brian O'Driscoll
#38. Use Cod Liver Oil According to studies, the fatty acids found abundantly in the oil can switch off enzymes that break down cartilage (the smooth protective coating in our bodies
C.D. Shelton
#39. There are good and bad movies, and long ones, and pretentious ones, and fun ones, and it's kind of healthy not just being able to switch off after ten minutes, but have patience.
Susanne Bier
#40. In order to terminate a pregnancy, you have to still a heartbeat, switch off a developing brain.
Christopher Hitchens
#41. During a movie, you lose all ability to focus on your own interests. Your life is in service. After that you just want to disappear, switch off the phone, and sleep and watch movies for a month.
Robert Richardson
#42. They say, 'TV is not a captive audience,' but it definitely is. You can easily switch off the bloody television.
Ridley Scott
#43. I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off.
Michael Morpurgo
#44. Work is a kind of vacuum, an emptiness, where I just switch off everything except the scant intelligence necessary to keep me going. God, the people are awful - great carved monstrosities from the sponge-stone of secondratedness. Hideous.
Philip Larkin
#45. I'm motivated every second by my work; it doesn't switch off. The pictures I make come from every blink of my lashes.
Sam Taylor-Wood
#46. We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.
Alistair Darling
#47. I can't relax when I'm watching a biographical drama, because it's so close to what it is that I do that I just long for more fiction - so that I can switch off.
Peter Morgan
#48. Switch off the mind and let the heart decide who you were meant to be Flick to remote and let the body glide There is no enemy! Etch out a future of your own design Well tailored to your needs Then fan the flame and keep the dream alive ... the future is roses! Roses!
Thomas Dolby
#49. In this twentieth century, to stop rushing around, to sit quietly on the grass, to switch off the world and come back to the earth, to allow the eye to see a willow, a bush, a cloud, a leaf, is an unforgettable experience.
Frederick Franck
#50. Switch off reality TV! I've only ever been able watch about 30 seconds of it.
Daphne Guinness
#51. You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.
Sophie Kinsella
#52. Win back two days of living? The sense of freedom is overwhelming! Switch off your mobile phone and consider your options.
Fennel Hudson
#53. Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere.
Carla H. Krueger
#54. Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off.
Dennis Bergkamp
#55. I think people often underestimate the power of consumers. But I equally say that consumers are like shock troops: You can't keep them agitated and motivated and committed and active forever. There are pulses where they switch on to a particular issue, and just inevitably they switch off.
John Elkington
#56. I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword - two jackets, one that's driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.
Gordon Ramsay
#57. I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.
Harriet Walter
#58. I take my mobile phone and iPad wherever I go. I like to switch off when I'm on holiday, but I always check emails in case someone at home is trying to get hold of me.
Olly Murs
#59. Your body can't switch off tired. People fall asleep behind the wheel all the time.
Shanola Hampton
#61. I turn you out of doors tenant desire you pay no rent I turn you out of doors all my best rooms are yours the brain and heart depart I turn you out of doors switch off the lights throw water on the fire I turn you out of doors stubborn desire.
Alain Chartier
#62. From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.
Frank Lowy
#63. I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it that way.
John Caudwell
#64. You cannot switch teachers on and off as if they were PowerPoint presentations.
Andy Hargreaves
#66. A change in those moments, some switch turned off forever, the end of trust or safety or love, and how do we ever find the switch again?
David Vann
#67. Creativity isn't a switch that's flicked on or off; it's a way of seeing, engaging and responding to the world around you.
Rod Judkins
#68. Being stress and anxiety free is a human preset, I just show you how to 'flick the switch' to off. Permanent stress and anxiety recovery is possible quickly and simply despite what many are told.
Charles Linden
#69. Like she said, love wasn't a switch that could be turned off. It was more like a battery, had to run until there was no more energy left.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#70. Friendliness, cheerfulness, and everything that a smile is supposed to express, become automatic responses which one turns on and off like an electric switch.
Erich Fromm
#71. The thing with love is, you cannot choose who you fall for. Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person. Just as much as you cannot stop growing feelings for a certain man, there's no switch to turn off your heart.
J.C. Reed
#72. Permanent weight loss doesn't come with an on and off switch. It is not something you do for a little while and think it is going to change your body.
Jennifer Hudson
#73. Humour is our 'default mode', if you like: we do not have to switch it on deliberately, and we cannot switch it off.
Kate Fox
#74. Keep in mind that if you take a tour through a hospital and look at every machine with on and off switch that is brought into the service of diagnosing the human condition, that machine is based on principles of physics discovered by a physicist in a machine designed by an engineer.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#75. If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.
Ann Patchett
#76. You can't be passionate when you feel like it. You have to be passionate about your job, product or cause all the time. There's no off switch on a tiger.
Harvey MacKay
#77. I wish I could read minds. It's a dangerous superpower, so I'd wish for it to come with a switch where I could turn it off if I wanted to. You'd learn a lot about people, that's for sure!
Kelsey Chow
#78. The armored vehicle manufacturing base is not a light switch that can be turned on and off at will. If we mothball production of systems like the Abrams tank, it will take time and money to get this capability back.
Sander Levin
#79. Well", Fang said, mimicking a thick Southern drawl. "I must say its mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them" He held his hands up to them. "Look Ma, no mess."
"Does Fang have an off switch?" Talon asked Vane.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#80. But I guess these things can't be controlled. You fall in love when it's right, not necessarily when you want to. It isn't a magic switch you can turn on and off. It just...happens. Sometimes it takes time, and sometimes it happens over night.
Micalea Smeltzer
#81. Those men who on the off-chance happened to be taller than her often had some genetic species-survival switch tripped in their brain that made them crave women on the opposite end of the height spectrum, to balance out the gene pool.
Sara King
#82. He fell silent for a very long time. "But on the other hand, perhaps it's like an on-off switch," he said. "Click! And you're gone." Then he paused again and smiled slightly. "Maybe that's why I never liked to put on-off switches on Apple devices.
Walter Isaacson
#83. Whatever you do, it will be a path. Life does not work like a light switch - on/off, fat/skinny, miserable/happy, crazy/sane. All things take time, patience, and practice. Anyone who tells you different is profiting off your fearful ignorance of the truth.
Vironika Tugaleva
#84. Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. If only men were like New York taxi-cabs and had a light that they can switch on when they're interested and off when they're not available. Then you'd know exactly where you were and you wouldn't have to worry about getting it wrong and being horribly embarrassed.
Lucy
Alexandra Potter
#86. The media's power is frail. Without the people's support, it can be shut off with the ease of turning a light switch.
Corazon Aquino
#87. You can't turn love off like a light switch. If you could it wouldn't be love. It is something that you keep on, until the bulb burns out or someone replaces it.
Shannon L. Alder
#88. I'm a big fan; I like all sorts of genres. I do like an occasion to just switch my brain off and enjoy some mindless carnage.
Edgar Wright
#89. Well, I have to say it's mighty nice of them Daimons to clean up after themselves when you kill them. It's much better than slaying an Arcadian. (He held his hands up to them.) Look, Ma, no mess. (Fang)
Does Fang have an off switch? (Talon)
(Looking a bit apologetic, Vane shook his head no.)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. Any kind of food you eat is going to have an impact on the world. If you switch to tofu and get off meat, the soy bean is doing enormous damage in the Amazon and all throughout South America.
Michael Pollan
#91. Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.
Martina Boone
#92. The way some women change fashion regularly, I change personalities. What persona feels good, what's coveted, what's au courant? I think most people do this, they just don't admit it, or else they settle on one persona because they're too lazy or stupid to pull off a switch.
Gillian Flynn
#93. You couldn't just pick and choose at will when someone depended on you, or loved you. It wasn't like a light switch, easy to turn on or off. If you were in, you were in. Out, you were out.
Sarah Dessen
#94. You have a Happiness Switch in you that you can switch on at any time. All you have to do is stop switching it off in order to blackmail yourself or others.
Robert Young
#95. Mother wasn't afraid of the sky in the day so much, but it was the night stars that she wanted to turn off, and sometimes I could almost see her reaching for a switch in her mind, but never finding it.
Ray Bradbury
#96. Before the next minute had passed, they had all fallen to the ground. Just like that. As though someone had reached inside and turned off a switch.
"What happened?" Matt asked, gasping.
I went from one person to the next, trying to wake them up, but they were all dead, wrote Daft Donald.
Nancy Farmer
#97. The single most important change you can make in your working habits is to switch to creative work first, reactive work second. This means blocking off a large chunk of time every day for creative work on your own priorities, with the phone and e-mail off.
Jocelyn K. Glei
#98. We turned the switch, saw the flashes, watched for ten minutes, then switched everything off and went home. That night I knew the world was headed for sorrow.
Leo Szilard
#99. knew I was being too talky. I could hear it. I felt around for the off switch but never found it. Not that I think he cared. I was being too talky for me.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#100. I wish my brain had an off switch. Maybe that way I could get some sleep.
Christy Hall
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