Off Quotes

When Culture Club broke up, I hadn't been going out a lot because we'd been working all the time, so I suddenly had this period of leisure. And it was just around the time that the whole acid house thing kicked off in London.

Now that I'm taking some time off from school, I've been reading a lot to make sure I don't forget everything. It's mostly classics and nonfiction accounts from actors, directors and writers from the '40s and '50s.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Experience, as a desire for experience, does not come off. We must not study ourselves while having an experience.

If you're going off a 90-foot jump, you can't say: 'Oh, I don't want to do this now.' You're going no matter what.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.

You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

I want to get off with the screenwriting.

Recently I've been participating in radio and television talk programs doing broadcasts and conferences, and shooting my mouth off and really going to town.

Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.

When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I wanted to write, and if 10 people wanted to hear it, that's fine.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.

This idea of holding the Defense Department hostage to the tax debate makes me sick to my stomach. Knock it off.

I don't normally look like a twig and I do eat like a pig but the weight has just dropped off me.

A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.

As a journalist, one tends to think there's nothing off limits.

Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.

If you told me I was going to live to 240, I would take 10 years off and try and act. I don't have that kind of time, so I'd much rather stick to playing guitar.

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.

One of the things I thought a lot about was how can we get the views, for instance, the main plaza, you look up to Telegraph Hill from there and therefore it would be a disaster to close that view off.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

Several tons of dynamite are set off in this picture - none of it under the right people.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.