Off Quotes
15597 quotes by 8408 authors
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Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone.…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I wanted to go higher than Rockefeller Center, which was being erected across the street from Saks Fifth Avenue and was going to cut off…
— Jacqueline Cochran
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Though, as he was torn into a pink upper air, she was a good craft to ride in, for her belly was firm and her…
— Thomas Keneally
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And in that narrow cockpit I wept, as I shall never weep again, when I felt the concrete brush against his wheels and, with a…
— Pierre Clostermann
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Now shut the engines off. Come down and flatten out, feel the long float, and at the given moment pull the stick right home. She's…
— Cecil Arthur Lewis
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If you strike upon a thought that baffles you, break off from that entanglement and try another, so shall your wits be fresh to start…
— Aristophanes
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Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.
— Richard Schiff
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I was sleeping in the woods one night after a gig we'd played somewhere, when I saw this girl appear before me. That girl was…
— Syd Barrett
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I had more verses . Owen Bradley said, 'Loretta, there's already been one El Paso and we'll never have another one. Get in that room…
— Loretta Lynn
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An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.
— Reid Hoffman
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Newspapers . . . serve as chimnies to carry off noxious vapors and smoke.
— Thomas Jefferson
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In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to…
— Karl Marx
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He comes into the world God knows how, walks on the water, gets out of his grave and goes up off the Hill of Howth.…
— James Joyce
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We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering of moss and…
— Adam Sedgwick
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You fall off the horse and you get back on.
— Bethany Hamilton
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Miranda Lambert is actually mixing the singer-songwriter philosophy with the commercial country [mindset]. And I find it just inspiring. My hat's off completely, because she's…
— Allison Moorer
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I just feel like it's easier to co-write sometimes, especially if you have chemistry with somebody. It kind of takes all the pressure off of…
— Miranda Lambert
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Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely…
— Jimmy Webb
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Night and gin and music-the right setting for peeling off the thin clinging layers of bullshit and finding one's way down closer to the essential…
— John D. MacDonald
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It was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to…
— Naomi Ragen
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