Off Quotes · Page 24

If more people would try and reach up instead of going to the lowest common denominator, I think we'd be a lot…

— Mary Badham

I don't care where I live, so long as there's a roof to keep the rain off my books, and high-speed Internet…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else.

— George Weinberg

Many significant stock-price inefficiencies can occur when a company is spun off.

— Whitney Tilson

So many songwriters peak in their early 20s because they're living off their passions.

— Dan Hill

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in…

— Pat Brown

Extraneous violence is totally wrong. 'Robocop' was violence for violence's sake - you don't shoot somebody's arm off.

— Lee Rich

It's hard to act in a corset. Your breath gets cut off. You're squashed.

— Alison Elliott

I love playing with a full band, but there's just like a different feeling up on stage when you're playing with a…

— Kris Allen

I dress some of the most successful women in the world, and meeting these women rubs off on you. A few years…

— Jason Wu

I like having pairs of characters to play off each other. I love drawing Batman, but he's more fun with Robin. Batman…

— Jim Lee

I was shot when I think it was number one. That was the catalyst for the interest in the show. Certainly it…

— Larry Hagman

You want to know my real pleasure? Food. I love chocolate. I can't get enough chocolate. I can't help it. But my…

— Brian Wilson

Once I accidentally left my passport in Nice, France, when I was on my way to Prague. Upon arriving in Vienna, after…

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

As soon as you make mistakes, or you have an off year, even if it's not your fault as a quarterback... I've…

— Eli Manning

In the wake of 9/11, my wife Trish and I were stranded on the East Coast. We had planned a vacation to…

— Brad Thor

I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the…

— Laurie Graham

I remember in the first season going, 'This is retarded. I can't believe they're making chefs do this.' But then it actually…

— Tom Colicchio

The more consistent a father can be or a mentor can be in the person's life and teach them principles of real…

— Allan Houston

My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came…

— Omar Dorsey

I have been waiting around to get the right script and the right director. For example, in the past, if a Hollywood…

— Gong Li

The greatest promotion I ever had on a newspaper was when 'The Washington Post' suddenly promoted me from city-side general assignment reporter…

— Tom Wolfe

When we go out to the country and just sit there, what we're really doing is just switching off various kinds of…

— Brian Eno

I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night…

— David Quammen

Elliott Carter does not write the kind of music that the kids go off to school whistling.

— Andre Previn

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

— Dan Hawkins

Many people are turned off at eating vegetarian because of the misconception that all dishes are just an arrangement of bland vegetables.

— Marcus Samuelsson

I'm not the same person on the court. I'm different when I'm off the court. Off the court, I don't need to…

— Luol Deng

In 1993, I chased Cuban and Spanish drag trawlers off the Grand Banks off of Newfoundland. And it cost them $35 million in losses.

— Paul Watson

On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will…

— Philippe Petit

I worked a lot on my ball-handling and outside shooting during the off season.

— Reggie Lewis

A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.

— Dean Karnazes

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that…

— Brad Goreski

Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.

— Mark McKinney

I'm a really rotten liar. Generally, if I've tried to pull off a lie, it hasn't worked out to my advantage.

— Brittany Murphy

I have crazy eyebrows, so it's crucial to tame them. Just like your hair, they set off your features.

— Natalie Morales

I was always in plays at school and in school concerts - you could say I liked to show off.

— George Cole

I've spent three hours hanging upside down while fighting off dinosaur attacks. That was a lot of fun.

— Jason O'Mara

I'm in a very good place to make records. Needing to make money off music is very dangerous.

— Ice T

I'm so much better off when I trust my instincts. But they're not perfect.

— Phil Hellmuth