Taking Off Quotes

#1. Taking your clothes off in front of strangers is something of a hobby in Germany, among both men and women, especially in the former communist East, where it was one of the few freedoms allowed.

Luke Harding

#2. It's always weird the thought of taking your clothes off in front of 20 people and then to have it projected in front of many more.

Lena Headey

#3. Why in the hell is she still taking off my clothes? Oh, my God! Maggie wants to rape me! I slap at her hand and she grips my wrist. "Sydney!" She laughs. "You're covered in puke. I'm trying to help you.

Colleen Hoover

#4. I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that was the only thing I wanted to do. And it had to be flying from sea carriers. Airfields were not enough.

Eugene Cernan

#5. I know the community mostly for its art and culture ... and of course its food, I eat at their restaurants." "They make you feel like taking off your shoes ... it feels like home.

Erykah Badu

#6. Did you ever hear him in Lohengrin?' demanded Pardoe, taking the ends of his own moustache with both hands, as if about to tear it off and reveal himself in a new identity.

Anthony Powell

#7. If women's choices - such as taking time off to rear children - make them less productive in the economy, does adolescent boys' behavior in school make them even less so, because they are missing the educational potential of their formative years?

Sendhil Mullainathan

#8. There's nothing like cataloguing books for taking your mind off things.

Mary Lou Kirwin

#9. Getting angry can sometimes be like leaping into a wonderfully responsive sports car, gunning the motor, taking off at high speed and then discovering the brakes are out of order.

Maggie Scarf

#10. Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.

George Osborne

#11. Shit. Well, maybe taking her jeans off would make him more inclined to say she could check out his tunnels.
Of course, he was pretty much guaranteed to say yes if she let him check out her tunnel again, but ... no.

Stacia Kane

#12. When I reached for the button on her jeans, she smacked my hands away. "I think I can do that," she said. "Are you sure?" I teased. "Because I'm here at your service and taking your jeans off is something I feel I'd be exceptionally wonderful at." Her lips twitched. "I'm sure you would be.

J. Lynn

#13. Instead of taking a year off, I started 'Dreamers of the Day' exactly 36 hours after I sent the manuscript for 'A Thread of Grace' to the publisher!

Mary Doria Russell

#14. Everyone has to act out of character sometimes. It's like taking your clothes off: you feel free without your character but very naked, unprotected. Unfinished. So you get dressed again- you put on yourself-and then you know who you are.

Jan Siegel

#15. Absorbing his words was like taking a drink of hot tea. They burned on the way down, but soothed my insides once they had time to cool off.

Tiffanie DeBartolo

#16. There's no self-expression or joy in these joints
no springboard to self-discovery, or adventure, like any decent night out involving men, women, alcohol, and taking your clothes off. Why do many people have a gut reaction to strip clubs? Because inside them, no one is having fun.

Caitlin Moran

#17. Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never met, you're pretty much going in and taking off your pants in front of strangers, so it's a really weird feeling.

Scotty McCreery

#18. I wanted the album to be aerodynamic, like an airplane taking off from a runway - all of a sudden you're in the air.

Jens Lekman

#19. Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.

Steven Tyler

#20. There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

Garrison Keillor

#21. Producers and studios know what sells. It's nice to be one of the guys that can help sell a movie by taking his shirt off.

Kellan Lutz

#22. The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

Bob Marley

#23. I've always negotiated the world very physically, from football to tussling at the playground to taking my clothes off.

Channing Tatum

#24. I was taking the bad boy off the market for good.

Abbi Glines

#25. When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult

Helen Mirren

#26. You need the money, the cash flow, but it's more than that, admit it. You love the game. The thrill, the taking off the bad guys, even the danger, the idea that you might get caught.

Don Winslow

#27. Yoga class is intimate even just from the standpoint of taking off your socks. Exposing your bare feet can be a big deal. You may be an African American next to a Caucasian or a Latino. But once practice begins and we drop in, separation dissolves.

James Fox

#28. And check this out: If every American had one meat-free day per week, it would be the same as taking eight million cars off American roads in a year.

Kathy Freston

#29. I confess that the idea of taking off one's boots in a howling squall to safeguard fossils that had survived since the Precambrian had its funny side.

Richard Fortey

#30. I'm definitely an advocate of the classic always taking your make-up off at night and always moisturising. I'll have a go at anyone that tells me they don't moisturise!

Ruta Gedmintas

#31. The basic thing is that I want to do the best work possible, and I can only do that if I'm relaxed and have a lot of energy. And that can only come from taking time off.

Jason Scott Lee

#32. I think everybody goes off and does their own vision. And I don't take responsibility for other people's work, frankly. It's bad enough taking responsibility for my own.

Wes Craven

#33. It's funny. We have all these ceremonies and traditions for putting rings on, but there's nothing for taking them off. But really, that's just as a big step. Letting go.

Thea Dawson

#34. When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around.

M.F. Moonzajer

#35. Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.

Mara Wilson

#36. She was the sexy librarian unpinning her hair and taking off her glasses for him.

Lauren Blakely

#37. The last sort of really low-key race I ran, I realized with about a hundred metres to go, that my heart just wasn't in it. I wasn't trying my hardest, I didn't care to compete against the girls I was up against. That spoke a lot about where my heart was taking me-which was off the track.

Cathy Freeman

#38. If Anglo feels it hasn't done enough damage to me already by taking my money, my company, my reputation, if they want to finish it off by putting me in prison, then so be it - I'll accept that.

Sean Quinn

#39. There is no substitute for taking off in flight in front of a live audience.

Tempestt Bledsoe

#40. There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that ... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

Paul McCartney

#41. It takes one asshole to ruin the whole thing. That's it. One. The problem with the world is one asshole comes up with a really bad idea and now we're all taking our shoes off at the airport.

Steven Soderbergh

#42. Humans generally get out the gist of what they need to say right at the beginning, then spend forever qualifying, contradicting, burnishing or taking important things back. Yor rareley miss anything by cutting most people off after two sentences.

Richard Ford

#43. I've always loved stories of animals and birds that can appear to be human, just by taking off their skins or their feathers.

Delia Sherman

#44. My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.

Collette West

#45. In fact, just heading toward veganism lifts a not insignificant burden from the earth. According to food pundit Michael Pollan, who's not a vegetarian, if everybody did even "Meatless Monday," it would be the environmental equivalent of taking 20 million midsize cars off the road.

Victoria Moran

#46. Taking off Levi's shirt had been such an inspired idea, Cath was thinking about losing her own.

Rainbow Rowell

#47. Believing the world is calm because we have never seen it otherwise is like taking the attitude of a man who jumps off the top of a tall building and figures that, since 29 of the 30 floors have passed without incident, he is going to be okay.

Stephen Webb

#48. In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the ordinary objects in the room. Like taking the lid off a pot and finding a fanged viper instead of stew.

Suzanne Collins

#49. The Cat Dancer is a 30-inch piece of wire with some little cardboard cylinders on the end. My cats go crazy for it. I stuck it on the wall with the adhesive mount, but I ended up taking it off so I could hold it and play directly with my cats.

Mark Frauenfelder

#50. It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.

Jonah Lomu

#51. We Can Only Exist By Taking Our Minds Off The Fact That We Exist

Thomas Bernhard

#52. Lying is the most fun a woman can have without taking her clothes off.

Natalie Portman

#53. I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.

David Nicholls

#54. As a model, you're so used to taking your clothes off that you just don't care.

Tyra Banks

#55. I was looking for the meaning of life when I was in college. And my deal with my dad was as long as I was taking a full course load, then he would pay. And the times that I wasn't taking a full course load, then I was off the dole and I was working.

John Mackey

#56. I don't know if I would ever have costume changes - usually I just end up taking off my shoes, I get so sweaty, and ... I just need to be comfortable.

Grimes

#57. Better off dead than giving in; not taking what you want.

Carol Ann Duffy

#58. I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year, ... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.

Ann Robinson

#59. If the very thought of taking off all your clothes in the middle of the Washington Mall during a school holiday makes you blush, you haven't even begun to dream what it feels like to publish a book.

Nancy Mairs

#60. I stopped making movies because I don't like taking my clothes off. Maybe it's realism, but in my opinion, it's utter filth.

Debbie Reynolds

#61. What I find is that the taking, the stealing, the appropriation of images has to do with prior availability, and it sets up a degree where things can be shared ... It's like 50% off ... You can let something of another emotion or another personality sign on your work, or co-sign it.

Richard Prince

#62. I guess if you're not going to win the championship, you're better off taking the opportunity to win a Brickyard or a Daytona 500 than you are to make the Chase and then fizzle out.

Tony Stewart

#63. For once, fate us taking a problem off our hands gratis. Let's smile, say thank you and stay the hell out of it!

Karen Chance

#64. I don't think any actors love taking their clothes off on film, unless you're an exhibitionist, which I'm certainly not.

Tamsin Egerton

#65. My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he's fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we're taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don't you wish you were here?

Carl Hiaasen

#66. How could you possibly look ten women in the face and ask why they had gotten you drunk and made a game of taking your clothes off and putting you to bed?

Robert Jordan

#67. The longer I practise medicine, the more convinced I am there are only two types of cases: those that involve taking the trousers off and those that don't.

Alan Bennett

#68. She watched through a slight mist a party of people who had just come into the restaurant, the movements of arms taking off overcoats, of legs in light-coloured stockings and fee in low-heeled shoes walking over the wooden floor to hide themselves under the tablecloths.

Jean Rhys

#69. Why did you come after me? Why did you bring me this?" I thrust my hand in his face showcasing our ring.
"Yeah, I brought it to you. You're my wife. Why the hell do you keep taking it off?

Portia Moore

#70. I was sitting at a friend's place in Michigan on vacation, having a beer on the patio. I was a little hefty. I said to myself: "Okay, I'm going to finish this weekend off strong, then after that I'm going to shut her down. I'm going to start taking better care of myself."

Chris Pronger

#71. Big Cliff Lazarenko's idea of exercise is sitting in a room with the windows open taking the lid off something cool and fizzy.

Sid Waddell

#72. What I personally knew about courting women could comfortably fit into a thimble without taking it off your finger first.

Patrick Rothfuss

#73. When I hug her, I notice she's still wearing yesterday's false eyelashes.
Mom? You know those come off with a little makeup remover and a cotton pad?"
I'm not taking them off."
Why not?"
I spent $180 on that makeup job and I refuse to wash my face until I get my money's worth.

Jen Lancaster

#74. I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things.

Al Roker

#75. Because," Mischa whispered, not taking her eyes off him. "After Tal found me, I couldn't let him go. I didn't want to be lost anymore.

Stylo Fantome

#76. I can count the number of great Cabernets I made at Beaulieu only by taking off my socks and shoes, but I can count the number of great Pinot Noirs on one hand with change left over.

Andre Tchelistcheff

#77. The inbox is always open in my brain, and anyone can get in any time and access me. Turning it off is taking back control. I decide who gets in. It's about emotional privacy, having a self.

Jill Soloway

#78. You should have seen his face when I started taking my clothes off. Priceless.

Stephenie Meyer

#79. I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I'm on my break.

Joyce Rachelle

#80. Many cities end up putting off things because they want to understand everything. They don't understand that innovating is about starting. Taking care of a city is a process that you start, and then give the population space to respond.

Jaime Lerner

#81. He was definitely taking his bodyguard duties seriously tonight. He gave off a take-one-step-closer-and-I-will-show-you-Armageddon vibe.

Christina Henry

#82. At Harvard I was taking an African-American studies class, and we were reading about the tragic mulatto. Invariably, the tragic mulatto can't fit in either world and flings herself off a bridge. So I'm reading, and I'm like, 'Oh, my God, I think I'm in literature,' but my life was never like that.

Soledad O'Brien

#83. I'm thrilled to be taking over Green Arrow. What I adore about the Arrow is his recklessness. He'll shoot off on an impulse, dispatch someone if they deserve it; his heroism is instinctive.

Ann Nocenti

#84. What am I sorry for? Taking off her shirt? Kissing her until I thought I was going to lose my mind? Touching her? Feeling her? Of all the things I may be sorry for in my life, I'm honestly not sorry for any of that.

Katie McGarry

#85. Hey, if you'd wanted to avoid 'this,' you shouldn't have lured me last night. Now it's too late. You might as well avoid the long, drawn-out pain and get it over with quickly. Sort of like taking off a Band-Aid. Or cutting off a limb."
"Wow, who says there's no romance left in the world?

Richelle Mead

#86. In New Orleans, bounce music was prevalent. That was all they wanted to hear. It was new and trendy, and it was hot, and it was taking off. Artists were coming out of everywhere. They did some great songs, some really catchy, fun songs. That was just the feel of New Orleans music.

Mystikal

#87. While we're looking up to see the rainbow - God's promises - we're ignoring floodwaters rising. While we're looking down to see how close we can get to the edge of the world without being trapped by Satan, we're taking our eyes off of Christ.

Billy Graham

#88. Switching to light-coloured roofs and roadways would have the equivalent effect on greenhouse gas emissions to taking one billion cars off the road for eleven years.

Steven Chu

#89. Are you taking me off to the woods where no one will see when you kill me?" Becky asked.

Kim Law

#90. You came into my life-not as one comes to visit (you know, "not taking one's hat off") but as one comes to a kingdom where all the rivers have been waiting for your reflection, all the roads, for your steps.

Vladimir Nabokov

#91. I love the leisurely amplitude, the spaciousness, of taking a walk, of heading somewhere, anywhere, on foot. I love the sheer adventure of it: setting out and taking off.

Edward Hirsch

#92. Joss Whedon said to me, 'If you think you are taking over the show, you have got another think coming.' He said, 'You are here only because I don't want to kill a villain off every week. I want my villains to be more interesting and multifaceted and then die.'

James Marsters

#93. You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.

Billy Mays

#94. Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after The Princess Diaries. It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.

Anne Hathaway

#95. People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.

Anthea Turner

#96. One of the key strategies of faith is to tackle fear not by belittling the fear or wishing it away but by taking our eyes off of that which makes us afraid and looking to God.

Anonymous

#97. And you know," Jeanne said, looking down at Sylvia with her hands on her hips, "that's how I want to go. Taking my own way out ... and totally pissing everybody off at the end.

L.J.Smith

#98. The sight of him swinging his leg over the back of the bike and taking his helmet off was akin to the hotness I would experience had someone struck a match and physically set my vagina alight.

K.M. Golland

#99. In any offense you put me in, when things break down, I'm going to get outside the pocket and move ... West Coast, East Coast. It doesn't matter. I'm taking off if I have to, to make things happen.

Michael Vick

#100. You know, Taylor Lautner, with a body like that, he should be taking his shirt off. For me, it's not so essential.

Max Irons