Off Quotes

Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.

I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.

I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them.

Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?

In the developed world, technological progress means that you can have a situation where there's growth, where there's a way in which everybody can be better off over time.

Another time, we had three days off in Australia, so we went out of our way to fly to Ayres Rock.

I don't know if it's rare, but from my experience, I think Suits does a lot more casting off of auditions than other shows.

Don't expect too much from yourself. What I like to do when I have a day off is make various cookie doughs and freeze them. Then I always have that on hand if I need it.

Putting off a hard thing makes it impossible.

Obviously, I think this [162 games a year four times] caused my early retirement, but I couldn't do it any other way. Just for the record, I never asked for any of the days off in my career.

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

What fun is life without a bit of showing off?

Drill instructors worked seven days a week, fifteen to seventeen hours a day in many cases, with no time off in between platoons.

Society has definitely gotten to the point where everybody has to comment on anything, and if you want to stay sane as a performer, you're better off not reading that stuff.

In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.

It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

You build a successful career, regardless of your field of endeavor, by the dozens of little things you do on and off the job.

Tomorrow, the busiest day of the week. I'm a big believer in putting things off, In fact, I even put off procrastinating.

When Evanescence took time off, I bought a big concert harp and started taking lessons like I was in high school again, which was really, really fun. I felt like I was learning again.

I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long.

I’ve never taken time off from being an actor. This is the kind of career I’d be so happy to do until I die. I always joke to myself that I want to have a postmortem Academy Award Nomination.

I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination decides it needs to take a nap. maybe that's what it needs to do.

You're generally better off sticking with what you know.

I have always looked on my businesses not just as money-making machines, but as adventures that can, I hope, make people better off.

In that - and that is my personal view - Singapore delivers the most value, as they think about Formula One as a complete entertainment event, on and off track.

It's not a bad day at work when you just have to take your shirt off for a big franchise movie. There are worse jobs out there!

Men do not like to admit to even momentary imperfection. My husband forgot the code to turn off the alarm. When the police came, he wouldn't admit he'd forgotten the code... he turned himself in.

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.

Rather than strive to 'lose weight,' most people would be better off striving to lose only fat and to build or maintain muscle.

The Republicans may be better off without an agenda. They don't scare people.

When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

The employees of the year, yeah we back to work. I took time off, while other rappers got jerked.

I will always fight for my life for Liverpool, and that will be on and off the field.

I can't believe it! Reading and writing actually paid off!

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

In fact when I first got my Apple II the first thing I did was turn it on and off, on and off, just because I had the power to do so, which I'd never had on a computer before

Go that way, really fast. If something gets in your way, turn.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.

I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

I am not against Muslim schools. But as I believe in integration, I think we would be better off overall if we did not have denominational schools at all.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

The more cynical you become, the better off you'll be.

He'll go down as one of the guys who changed our sport in a lot of ways, not only the way he played the game, but also the way that he conducted himself on and off the court.

We should pass a flex time law that allows employees to take their overtime pay in money or in time off, depending on what's better for their family.

I'll never retire. The new millennium is the age of adventure as far as I am concerned. I'm going up a volcano and off into space.

This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all.