Off Quotes · Page 31

If you put a purchase on a charge card, you're paying it off forever. You have to know how to pay it…

— Gregory Meeks

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

— Jorge Paulo Lemann

I love musical theater. That's what I started off to do when I was 7, and my first show was 'Peter Pan.'

— David Hasselhoff

Living off the grid and being kind of an outlaw brings a dangerous reality.

— Ron Perlman

I do think non-linearly. So I think that comes off as nervousness or anxiety in a person.

— Michaela Watkins

The amount of energy saved by switching off the phone charger is exactly the same as the energy used by driving an…

— David J. C. MacKay

Yes, I do sew. I started when I was around 8 or 9 and have been doing it off and on since then.

— Ann Packer

I can't even touch another conductor's baton. The center of gravity, the feel of the handle, puts me totally off.

— Jeffrey Tate

In the same way that I'm open when I speak, I'm that open on stage. I feed off the energy of the…

— Tove Lo

At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen…

— Drew Busby

I lose my temper at home. I try to control my temper at work. Sometimes, if you are under a lot of…

— Mohamed ElBaradei

There's this thin line between knowing something is going to be really hard and saying, 'Yeah, you know, but I still gotta…

— Michael Keaton

I like the city. I like the concrete. I like big business. I like being a CEO of my own company and…

— Matthew McConaughey

What it comes down to is, Kiss has always been a beast that has this tendency to run wild, and it needs…

— Paul Stanley

Hats off to starting a franchise younger than we all did in 'Twilight' and keeping your cool. The 'Harry Potter' men and…

— Kellan Lutz

I think I just pick really smart and motivated people to work with - people who are probably going to do great…

— Tucker Max

But nothing is better than the market, where the customer and the business deal directly with each other, because if you rip…

— John Stossel

Soaps have a schedule where you have to be done in 15 minutes. With an hour show, there's no way to get…

— Lucy Deakins

The more I can make a person comfortable in their environment by taking my ego's hat off and leaving it at the…

— Pharrell Williams

Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity.…

— Mildred S. Dresselhaus

I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed…

— Shashi Tharoor

All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was…

— Lucas Till

I was conscious of being wordy as a child. I was a terrible talker. I memorised the Latin names of flowers at…

— Simon Schama

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite…

— Tess Gerritsen

I can always tell when a filmmaker doesn't care about his or her characters; they just care about setting them up to…

— Drew Goddard

It's far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

— Jennifer Armintrout

A man who reads effeminate may well be consistently heterosexual, and another one might be gay. We can't read sexuality off of…

— Judith Butler

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

— David Nicholls

I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.

— Garry Trudeau

I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me.

— Phil Daniels

In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.

— Louis Susman

The design of 'Love Actually,' the typeface, the basic line of that poster and that DVD cover has been ripped off so…

— Martin Freeman

If you get asked a really tough question and you give a really good answer, you come off looking really good.

— Bob Schieffer

Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while…

— Freddie Prinze, Jr

We've all been tired and thought we wanted a long vacation when all we needed was a few days off, but didn't…

— George Cukor

As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.

— Damien Chazelle

I've now met, I would say, almost every single one of my rock idols. I feel like I should just drive off…

— Tim Schafer

There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when…

— Reza Aslan

It's shown and proved that hard work pays off. Make goals, achieve them and replace them with new goals.

— Lance Gross

You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.

— Natalie Massenet