Off Quotes
15597 quotes by 7877 authors
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In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because…
— Andy Hertzfeld
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So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for…
— Lucretius
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I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
— James Ellroy
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I always tried to learn about the hitters. Anytime someone got a hit off me, I made a mental note of the pitch. He'd never…
— Christy Mathewson
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Shadow boxes become poetic theater or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more…
— Joseph Cornell
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That's no good, I can't steal from the fairly well off and give to the moderately impoverished! That's not gonna swing, is it?
— Eddie Izzard
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Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia.
— Eddie Izzard
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I was a university professor, I could talk on and on and on. Give me a podium and you have to drag me off with…
— Kathy Reichs
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I’m pleased with how ridiculous I am. I like me. Though I’m not a huge fan. I know when to switch me off.
— Robert Plant
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It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be…
— David Allen
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How many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for 9/10th of the people to…
— Huey Long
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It's lacrosse that helped teach me to spin off checks, take shots and protect the puck under pressure. My stick skills, the way to read…
— John Tavares
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As far as my street cred goes, I'll always have that, because I always hang with the kids. I'll jump right off the stage and…
— Kid Rock
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The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
— Walker Percy
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It's a good thing to get poetry off the shelves and more into public life.
— Billy Collins
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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation, by the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started.…
— Billy Collins
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The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!
— Shulamith Firestone
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I still play that guitar. It's a Martin D-18 with a clear pick guard. I've played that guitar on and off my TV shows for…
— Andy Griffith
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I have never been a different person onstage than I am off.
— Gloria Gaynor
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Posterity does not pay off anything of the national debt. Each administration adds to the debt left to it, and the promise of liquidation implied…
— Frank Chodorov
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