Quotes of: Better-off Keyword

If you play more than two chords, you're showing off.

Woody Guthrie

I desire to put off my trial as long as I can till I can get my evidence ready.

William Kidd

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

Willie Nelson

unsignificantly off the coast there was a splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning

William Carlos Williams

I'm always doing something musically - when I'm working or when I'm off.

Zooey Deschanel

I screwed my knee up once because I fell off the stage.

Zakk Wylde

Our whole wedding cost 180 bucks. Afterward, we re-heated lasagna for everyone and set off fireworks.

Larry the Cable Guy

If my assistant goes off and becomes successful, and people want to work with him, I'd take that as a compliment that I'd trained them well.

Brad Goreski

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

Jim Capaldi

It's a rare thing to find somebody you can work with, work off of, and have fun with.

Matthew Ashford

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

Willem Dafoe

Most women put off entertaining until the kids are grown.

Erma Bombeck

Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.

Sofia Vergara

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Kenny Rogers

Far from such din, when blessed silence returns, I can listen to the butterflies that flutter inside my head. To hear them, one must be calm and pay close attention, for their wingbeats are barely audible. Loud breathing is enough to drown them out. ...

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

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Dog Sense: How the New Science of Dog Behavior Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet

The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and drink vodka, and wear black furs, and slurp borscht by the pail, like blood. Children may wear through their socks marching...

Deathless

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability

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The Darkest Evening of the Year

There were some things it was better not to know. They caused "metaphysical" anguish, for which there was as yet no remedy. When it was worried, the Tribe was inhibited and unable to act. It was very bad for everyone. The Tribe started to produce tox...

Empire of the Ants

The first supermarket supposedly appeared on the American landscape in 1946. That is not very long ago. Until then, where was all the food? Dear folks, the food was in homes, gardens, local fields, and forests. It was near kitchens, near tables, near...

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