Top 100 Way Off Quotes
#1. Banquets are always pleasant things, consisting mostly, as they do, of eating and drinking; but the specially nice thing about a banquet is, that it comes when something's over, and there's nothing more to worry about, and to-morrow seems a long way off.
Kenneth Grahame
#2. Thinking of death
strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off
made me feel happier than ever.
Dodie Smith
#4. I keep telling myself that maybe, eventually, we'll get to know each other, and he might like me. A lot. But that's a long way off, and in the meantime, I already know I like him. A lot. And I don't know what to do with these feelings
Erin McCahan
#5. I might have become a minor celebrity but royalty checks were a long way off.
Charley Pride
#6. Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.
Anthony Jeselnik
#7. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.
Raymond Carver
#8. I've done festivals in the past where I'd be a guest, it was like, Wow, maybe someday I could play Town Hall - but that'll be a long way off. So it's very exciting.
John Mulaney
#9. They came and they went; they ached and pained. They laughed privately and cried to themselves as if heeding a way- off silent call. They were forever childish, sweet and convulsive. They heard sound the way dog heard sound. They were like the moon- they changed every eight days.
Robert Olmstead
#10. The library was like a stone quarry where no rain had fallen in ten thousand years. Way off in that direction: silence. Way off in that direction: hush. It was the time between things finished and things begun. Nobody died here. Nobody was born. The library, and all its books, just were. We
Ray Bradbury
#11. Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off.
George Eliot
#12. Poor control-freak Jeb. Your world's way off-kilter when little Alyssa's not tripping over her chastity belt. Is that it, bad boy?
A.G. Howard
#13. Remember where you're standing when the spotlight goes off," Lovell warned me once, when our book was a best-seller and the movie it spawned was in theatres. "You'll have to find your own way off the stage.
Jeffrey Kluger
#14. It's like having explosives on board 24/7, the way I feel. I can't believe when I touch things they don't blow to bits. I can't believe I was so way off.
I thought, I don't know, I thought wrong.
Jandy Nelson
#15. I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set in World War II, but that's a little way off yet.
Jeremy Bulloch
#16. I slowed my pace. Years of hauling water, wringing out clothes, scrubbing floors, emptying chamber pots, with no chance of beauty or color or light in my life, stretched before me like a landscape of flat land where, a long way off, the sea is visible but can never be reached.
Tracy Chevalier
#17. Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.
Winston Churchill
#18. When I was in college, I wanted to be editor of 'Reason' when I grew up. It was an impractical ambition, especially since the magazine was located in Santa Barbara, way off any journalist's normal career path.
Virginia Postrel
#19. You've got to admit it's a bit of a pantomime, though," said Crawly. "I mean, pointing out the Tree and saying 'Don't Touch' in big letters. Not very subtle, is it? I mean, why not put it on top of a high mountain or a long way off? Makes you wonder what He's really planning.
Neil Gaiman
#20. You're cramming a few chance data points into a story that has nothing to do with reality. You need to take a giant step back. Take a deep breath. You're way off the reservation." Nobody
Lev Grossman
#21. I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake looking. The cook books now look so much like magazines, you'll never make food that looks like that. I'd rather see it the ugly way than they way they do it now.
Amy Sedaris
#22. Condemnation is a trick of the enemy, not the language of the heavens. Shame is not God's tool, so if we are slaves to it, we're way off the beaten path. And
Jen Hatmaker
#23. Life's here to be lived, and if we're going to be in the soup next week - well, next week is a long way off.
George Orwell
#24. The moment a student blinks his eye, he's already way off. The moment he tries to think, he's already differed. The moment he arouses a thought, he's already deviated. But for the man who understands, it's always right there before his eyes.
Linji Yixuan
#25. The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.
Stevie Smith
#26. We seem to be a long way off from the kind of Fascism which we behold in Italy today, but we are not so far from the kind of Fascism which Mussolini preached in Italy before he assumed power, and we are slowly approaching the conditions which made Fascism there possible.
John T. Flynn
#27. Are you thankful for not being young?'
'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see? ...
Charles Dickens
#28. Long moment there was only the sound of rain banking off the roof, like a thousand fingers tapping way off somewhere.
Ransom Riggs
#29. Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#30. Starting a long way off the true point by loops and zigags, we now and then arrive just where we ought to be.
George Eliot
#31. As for becoming queen, it was never on the forefront of my mind when I married my husband. It was a long way off, that thought.
Princess Diana
#32. Sometimes you can see car crashes from a long way off, if the road is straight and both vehicles are heading towards each other in the same lane.
Nick Hornby
#34. I know you're really shy, and you've been through some shit, but please tell me if I'm way off the mark.
Ker Dukey
#35. I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
William Faulkner
#36. I'm a long way off finishing the LP, but I've got an idea in my head of exactly how I want it to look and sound.
Gold Panda
#37. [David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.
David Hare
#38. It is a long way off, sir"
"From what Jane?"
"From England and from Thornfield: and _"
"Well?"
"From you, sir
Charlotte Bronte
#39. Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.
Brian Froud
#40. Coldness in everything. It comes from a long way off; it gets into everything. One must get out of the way before it reaches the core. If it does that, one won't feel even the coldness any more. Do you see what I mean?
Christa Wolf
#41. I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright
#42. Look in Kego's defense he was only Nine and a half when he took command of the ship and she had been put way off course by her captain and you lot would all be dead if it wasn't for him.
Jenny Smith In The Navigator by Steve Merrick
Steve Merrick
#43. Youth, however, can afford to enjoy even its melancholy; for the ultimate fact of which that melancholy is a prophecy is a long way off.
Richard Le Gallienne
#44. We are quite a way off before people travel around the world without cash in their pockets. The growth of plastic and electronic transactions have tended to impact traveller's cheques rather than cash.
Lloyd Dorfman
#45. Providing accurate portrayals of characters is something I want to pay ample attention to. If I don't stick to that thought, then we'd have to lower the quality or break the balance of the game. Something that goes way off spec could break the entire game.
Masahiro Sakurai
#46. That excitement on the court, I'm the same way off the court. I like to have fun, meet people; I like to give high-fives to the kids courtside. Just have fun. That's kind of my personality, that's how I've been.
James Harden
#47. I am running away. They beat and ill-use me, Dick; and I am going to seek my fortune, some long way off. I don't know where.
Charles Dickens
#48. And I watch my words from a long way off.
They are more yours than mine.
They climb on my old suffering like ivy.
Pablo Neruda
#49. I still believe the Lewinsky investigation was way off from the focus of what Whitewater was, which turned out to be nothing at the end of the process. And I think that there were people who were determined as political opponents to not allow his presidency to succeed.
Rahm Emanuel
#50. Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof
Look! there - before you, a little way off
There is an empty space
Between truth and falsehood.
Amrita Pritam
#51. You have to turn over a lot of rocks to find those little anomalies. You have to find the companies that are off the map - way off the map.
Warren Buffett
#52. Here is the blackness of space, the myriad stars gleaming like diamond dust or, as some people would say, like great balls of exploding hydrogen a very long way off. But then, some people would say anything. A
Terry Pratchett
#53. Many great people had been considered to be boring, like Nigel Mansell, but anyone who had read the racing driver's autobiography, "Clutch Down, Dick Out", would know that perception was way off the mark.
Mark Jackman
#54. Honey, de white man is de ruler of everything as fur as Ah been able tuh find out. Maybe it's some place way off in de ocean where de black man is in power, but we don't know nothin' but what we see.
Zora Neale Hurston
#55. There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule.
Abraham Lincoln
#56. Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.
Robert Frost
#57. There is a sort of convergence starting to happen between the computer and musical instruments, but it's still quite a long way off.
Brian Eno
#58. The Stars are a long way off, and their words get somewhat dulled in the message.
Bram Stoker
#59. It was chosen by the archer and though it is a long way off, we cannot blame it when we fail to hit it. In this lies the beauty of the way of the bow: you can never excuse yourself by saying that your opponent was stronger than you.
Paulo Coelho
#60. Death seems to be a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream. It will not do to think in such a way and be negligent. Insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#61. Give me another chance. Earlier tonight, you hoped I would be your first. I really did feel honored. I was just caught way off guard, so I fronted a little and rushed upstairs. But when I got to the top, I leaned back against my door and had to catch my breath. I couldn't fucking believe it.
Kenya Wright
#62. In the first place, you're way off when you start railing at things and people instead of at yourself.
J.D. Salinger
#63. Actually, you're way off."
"Oh?" the guard asked.
"Yup. She's not a werewolf, she's a chupacabra. Have you noticed a lot of missing goats lately?
Kiersten White
#64. I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
Sally Pearson
#65. True gender equality in Scotland - and elsewhere - is still some way off.
Nicola Sturgeon
#66. I consider myself a synthetic thinker in a virtual domain therefore if I'm way off there is no solid foundation or reference for authentic stupidity.
Carl Henegan
#67. Tonight, I feel small. An entire night in the city seems to be too much for me, too immense for me to get lost in. By now it's past one, the after-hours city is in full swing, and morning is a long way off.
Charles Yu
#68. And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.
Roger Penrose
#69. If you simply write him off as the god of sacrifice and nothing more, then you are way off the mark. He's got more courage, integrity, and heart than anyone I've ever met.
Lisa Kessler
#70. A few days back someone sent me two feathers. Two bird's feathers in a sheet of note-paper with a coronet, and fastened with a seal. Sent from a place a long way off; from one who need not have sent them back at all. That amused me too, those devilish green feathers.
Knut Hamsun
#72. On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have.
Chris Matakas
#73. I'm guessing you thought I was way off on your political philosophy but right on the button about the other two. Just think about that for a while.
John Scalzi
#74. Faith may have removed mountains way off somewhere, a long time ago, but it won't remove a wart at home this week.
E.W. Howe
#75. Mother," said little Pearl, "the sunshine does not love you. It runs away and hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now, see! There it is, playing a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#76. Home, he murmured. It's always the hardest to leave ... because it gives you the biggest punch in the gut as you're on your way off. All the memories come flooding in ... and you're left with a feeling of emptiness. You're homesick before you're even gone.
Zechariah Barrett
#77. I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off ... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.
Georges Braque
#78. And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body")
Cornell Woolrich
#79. Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere.
Strive Masiyiwa
#80. Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go all the goddamn way with what matters.
Ernest Hemingway,
#81. Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.
Richard Schiff
#82. The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.
Anne Frank
#83. I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
Victoria Wood
#84. No matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be.
Ron Currie Jr.
#85. As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.
Gerard Way
#86. I'm not very good at picking stuff up off the radio. It takes me way too long to learn other people's music.
R. Kelly
#87. Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.
Lord Byron
#88. Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.
Dan Hill
#89. The ultimate act of heroism shouldn't be death. You're always saying you want to give Baz the stories he deserves ... So you're going to kill him off? Isn't the best revenge supposed to be a life well-lived? The punk-rock way to end it would be to let them live happily ever after.
Rainbow Rowell
#90. If you look at groups in the Palestine region, Hamas and the Palestine Islamic jihad, more often than not in their first operations they would accidentally blow themselves up on the way to the target or the bomb wouldn't go off.
Michael Scheuer
#91. It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stomach is in knots, I'm the most excited I've ever been in my life. I'm totally enthralled by him. I want him, every part of him, and I desperately want him to feel the same way about me.
Serena Grey
#92. I do not make love, Miss Bennet," he had told her."I bonk. I have it off. I get my end way, I rodger, I boff.
William Codpiece Thwackery
#93. He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for.
Douglas Adams
#94. It's not that he doesn't appreciate beauty, he just appreciates it in his own way. I mean, if a poet sees a daffodil he stares at it and writes a long poem about it, but Twoflower wanders off to find a book on botany.
Terry Pratchett
#95. He rolled the other way and watched the digital display of his alarm ticking seconds off he'd never get back. This is the life we're given. One life. One opportunity to be happy, to make others happy, and I'm letting it slip through my fingers because I'm afraid.
Barbara Elsborg
#96. What's even more unsettling is the way these people hide what they're doing from the public. They strip the labels off miracle wheat when they ship it, for instance, and say, 'Watch out. Don't plant too much and don't depend on it too much.'
David R. Brower
#97. In most groups the craziest person is in control. It starts because no one wants the problems that come from pissing off a crazy person. It's just smarter and easier sometimes to let the crazy person have his or her way.
Scott Adams
#98. We're going all the way 'til the wheels fall off and burn.
Bob Dylan
#99. Think about my invitation. It's not a bad way to start off the year - on the arm of the most eligible bachelor in
school . . . See you tomorrow, Goldilocks." Trent winked and,
finally releasing my captive hand, walked away.
Anastasia Hopcus
#100. The first thing I do after work is take off my TV makeup with a gentle cleanser. I also try to exfoliate twice a week. Waking up with dull, flaky skin is no way to start the day.
Natalie Morales
