Quotes with off-the-hook

Quotes 601 till 620 of 620.

  • Bruno Mars You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère You may drive a dog off the King's armchair, and it will climb into the preacher's pulpit; he views the world unmoved, unembarrassed, unabashed.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Barbara Corcoran You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's demanded by the market. You need to show it off. You don't have to rip out the kitchen and bathroom. But maybe replace the tiles or the countertops. Get professional advice.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Ben Folds You nodded off in my arms watching tv
    I won't move you an inch
    Even though my arm's asleep.
    Lyrics Gracie, Songs for Silverman (2005)
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Billy Tauzin You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
    Billy Tauzin
    American lobbyist and politician (1943 - )
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  • Anne Perry You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
    Anne Perry
    English author (1938 - )
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  • David Herbert Lawrence You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Betty Grable You're better off betting on a horse than betting on a man. A horse may not be able to hold you tight, but he doesn't wanna wander from the stable at night.
    Betty Grable
    American actress, model, and singer (1916 - 1973)
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  • Ray Bradbury You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.
    Ray Bradbury
    American science-fiction writer (1920 - 2012)
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  • Elias Canetti 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.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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  • Brendan Behan A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
    Brendan Behan
    Irish poet, short story writer, novelist and playwright (1923 - 1964)
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  • Sacha Guitry A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands.
    Sacha Guitry
    French playwright, actor and director (ps. of Alexandre Georges- (1885 - 1957)
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
    Animal Dreams
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Denis Diderot I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison I start where the last man left off.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Andre Breton Leave everything. Leave Dada. Leave your wife. Leave your mistress. Leave your hopes and fears. Leave your children in the woods. Leave the substance for the shadow. Leave your easy life, leave what you are given for the future. Set off on the roads.
    Andre Breton
    French writer (1896 - 1966)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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