Off Quotes

Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.

When you're writing about people that are not very well off, you seem to see the kitchen sink. So it was a bit of a sort of cosy phrase that got used a bit too much.

The really tough thing would have been to decide to take Woodward and Bernstein off the story. They were carrying the coal for us - in that their stories were right.

It started off at a club called Disobey, around the corner from where I live.

I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

Boxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do.

I would never walk off any show.

Anyone who knows me knows my mom, Dorcina, has to sign off on any decision and that she will play a major part in any decision.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

So right off, I'm going to have to say that a lot of people have been comparing Life Is Killing Me to World Coming Down, and I think a lot of those people equate art and sales figures, and I don't do that.

Sometimes dirty can come off really cute or come off 'I don't even want you to touch me.'

We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.

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.