Off Quotes · Page 23

I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the…

— Talia Shire

I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to…

— Trieste Kelly Dunn

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas.

— Leo Burnett

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

— A. E. van Vogt

Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

— Anonymous

Offense cuts you off from God. We separate ourselves from the pipeline. I've never seen anything block blessings from Heaven except offense.

— John Bevere

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

— Jenny Eclair

I always switch off from the business when I go across the threshold. Home is home, and I try to keep it…

— John Caudwell

Unlike the Kennedy dynasty, who always knew how to pay off people who might make trouble, the Windsors can't bring themselves to…

— Tina Brown

There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of…

— Iris Chang

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people…

— Michael Schenker

Fall of the Berlin wall? Being there was fun. Nations that flaked off of the Soviet Union in southeastern Europe, Central Asia,…

— P. J. O'Rourke

One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one…

— Jacqueline Leo

Somebody described it to me the best as when you go in to write a song with two people that you've never…

— Scotty McCreery

In the Soyuz, the little Russian capsule, you can actually hear the banging of the big shield, the big heat shield on…

— Chris Hadfield

I don't want to impose rules on people, but you have only a short window, and you're sorely mistaken if you think…

— Mika Brzezinski

Film, for me, is in two stages. One is when I write the script more or less on my own - that's…

— Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them…

— John Ridley

I realised I'd been spoiled at Liverpool. We were used to winning. In Italy I grew up as a person. I didn't…

— Ian Rush

Well, I was always really mature for my age. I'm an above-age reader. I'm not trying to come off like, 'I have…

— Atticus Shaffer

I was talking on the phone in my trailer, and I looked in the mirror and I saw the badge clipped to…

— Michael Trucco

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why…

— Dave Brat

The best marriages are the ones where we can go out in the world and really put ourselves out there. A lot…

— Brene Brown

My dad was fine about me doing modelling at 16 because I always said school was important to me. I always chose…

— Georgia May Jagger

'Wiseguy' for its time was good. It was really good. And it holds up still. But a lot of the restraints have…

— Jonathan Banks

The great thing about performance capture is you can go off, and then, without changing costume, you can become another character.

— Andy Serkis

The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

— Anonymous

The novelist is the vestigial bone on the body cinema. We're like the little toe that can be cut off.

— Don Winslow

I'm off to race around the world - a race against time and two men. I know I can beat time. I…

— Dorothy Kilgallen

I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view…

— Gary Owens

I don't get recognised until I'm on stage, and then I can walk off and forget about it. It's great.

— Rick Astley

As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy…

— C. J. Box

There's the occasional script that just hammers you, that you can't shower off.

— Mariska Hargitay

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes…

— Domhnall Gleeson

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

— William Shatner

Most employees only want to know how much they get paid and how much time off they get - they probably don't…

— Robert Kiyosaki

So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.

— Witold Pilecki

I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off.

— Harvey Martin

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

— Nigel Barker

British actors are pretty good, by and large, at turning on at 'action' and off at 'cut.'

— James Purefoy