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Off Quotes by John Banville
- I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking…
- I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we…
- Fictional characters are made of words, not flesh; they do not have free will, they do not exercise volition. They are easily born, and as…
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- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country. — Chinua Achebe
- I'm not interested in cutting the feet off my characters or stretching them to make them fit my certain political view. — Margaret Atwood
- I think that more and more you're going to see people of good will on their side of the aisle say you… — David Axelrod
- Some people will go to the opening of an envelope. They live their lives in the public eye and get off on… — Jensen Ackles
- You can't take money from the taxpayers out of the treasury to give it to pay off your political donors. That's corruption… — Michele Bachmann
- Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him. — Kevin Bacon
- Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey