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My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my feet.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.

Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.

I was an unhappy child, and that puts me off having a child of my own.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

Acting with Denzel is like playing tennis with someone that's better than you. You either play better tennis or get blown off the court.

I think the level of devotion some sci-fi fans display turns other people off.

Many actors have protested about mobile phones going off in theatres, but the real menace now is people texting during a show. It may only disturb a few people around them, but for me, as an actor, when I spot them answering their emails, I am outraged.

I watched, for the 17th and hopefully the last time, The 'Guns of Navarone' on New Year's Eve. I always watch just in case the explosives don't go off in the end. You have to watch the end, just to make sure it's OK.

I never want to quit playing ball. They'll have to cut this uniform off of me to get me out of it.

All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.

A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.

I tried out for another show while I was in college so I could pay off my student loans, and it sort of led to The Real World. The same people that were casting that show were casting The Real World, so they asked me to do it.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.

On 'American Gladiators,' I got to pummel a lot of people off a pyramid with a giant Q-tip. It was so much fun to wrestle people with no risk of getting knocked out or choked out.

If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

When the show's in production, we work for three weeks at a time and then take a week off.

I had, before I went to college, I had taken a few years off after high school and really had, I guess in those days, I had no intentions of going to college.

I thought I would be an organic chemist. I went off to university, and when I couldn't understand the chemistry lectures I decided that I would be a zoologist, because zoologists seemed like life-loving people.

Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

I've been playing golf as long as I've been dancing, since I was 13 or 14. I play off six. I like to get out on a golf course as often as I can.

Turn off the sound in a movie, and if you can tell what's going on, the movie should work.

I'm a theatre person, that's who I am. I'm happy to make sojourns into the world of movies but I'm basically a theatre director that potters off and does a couple of movies.

I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

I'd get more applause than some because I was just seventeen. If they didn't clap at the end of my act I would limp off stage and boy would they feel guilty. They would all burst into tremendous applause as they saw this poor cripple kid walking off.

I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll come out of it refreshed and centered and that's how I'll feel and it'll carry through the day.

You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker.

You can create the perfect triceps by just pushing yourself off your wall.

There's not too many teams that can succeed on and off the field together.

What we really need is for me to get hot and stay hot. When I go, this team really takes off.

I was a window dresser for Burton's once. What really put me off was the area manager coming round and saying, Charles, I think you're a natch at this.

I think because I am as earnest as I am, people were accepting of my evolving into a certified, legitimate, and grown up and I did take three years off.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

I would sign on for projects that were meant to shoot in July, and then they would postponed and they would bleed into the following semester, and then I'd take a semester off, and then the movie would collapse.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.

I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm hoping that with the next book, when people pick it up and read it, it will scare the pants off of them.

I don't know what it is to love the way they love-they would jump off a bridge for me. I can't do that. I can only say, I owe you.

It happens to the best of them. You lay off singing and your throat gets out of practice. No excuses. I blew it.

It kills me when I see some metal band trying to pass themselves off as an 'alternative band.'

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

I have reservations about everything I do.

I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

Ray is very secretive about his ideas - why not, the times that the Kinks have been ripped off, especially in the early years, it makes you a little bit cautious about telling anybody what you're doing. And that's understandable.

When I was a student, the laws of physics were regarded as completely off limits. The job of the scientist, we were told, is to discover the laws and apply them, not inquire into their provenance.

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.

I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.

I used to lead off when I was a rookie. I've always been able to bunt.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

But you can't show some far off idyllic conception of behavior if you want the kids to come and see the picture. You've got to show what it's really like, and try to reach them on their own grounds.

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

I guess I'm attracted to these off beat roles because my life has been a bit abnormal. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Aim high, and you won't shoot your foot off.

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something.

I tasted huge success with my first album, and when it's happening it feels like a roller coaster you can't get off. You should be very careful about wishing for success on that scale.

Even people on the liberal side are starting to worry about going off a fiscal cliff.

If you look at the timing of many of the Greek dramas from the theatrical point of view, it's all off, and I think the reason for that is that music played a very important part.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

I think I might actually die of showing off. It'll be on my headstone - 'Cause of Death: Showing Off.'

If I do go to the beach there have to be certain rules: it can't be a pebbly beach, there has to be some shade and there has to be a beach bar. I don't want to go off the beaten track.

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

I am very short-sighted, and if I don't like a situation I take my glasses off.