Quotes of: Better-off Keyword

A brick could be used to change the channel on a TV. Or at least turn it off—permanently. 

Brick and Blanket Test in Brick City (Ocala) Florida

The sounds she heard bouncing off the walls around her were those of defeat.

The Body Finder

... you’ll have to fall in love at least once in your life, or Paris has failed to rub off on you.

Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.

Bleak House

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do.

Big Machine

Today I fed him right off the bat, and only checked Facebook twice.

On Being a Rat and Other Observations

So easy to go sailing off this road. A wonder more folks didn't. All that space, waiting.

Black River

The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.

Big in Japan: A Ghost Story

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

City of Ashes

Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

Confucius

It's hard to say things without coming off in a certain way, but at a young age, I felt very driven. All I ever wanted to be is a soldier of cinema.

Harmony Korine

Too much money at a young age, it just takes your eye off the ball. And you're not as hungry as players used to be. You think you've made it before you've done anything.

Ryan Giggs

We do not get to this age to be written off. Older people can act as a support system, which is what happens more in Mediterranean countries. People become much wiser as they get older and we should value that.

Susan Hampshire

Jazz celebrates older generations and not just the youth movement. When you 'sell' only to people of a certain age, you get cut off from the main body of experience.

Wynton Marsalis

By shading off, as I have done, the portion of the area of the diagram according to the individual age, every one may see how much of life is consumed, and what is left.

Warren De la Rue

I knew early on that I was a nerd and that films were my refuge. Those first few minutes before the lights went off, and you're alone in the theater waiting, were really pleasurable.

Alfonso Cuaron

The only way to get gay issues off the front pages of Canadian newspapers is to grant gay and lesbian people our full civil equality and leave it alone.

Dan Savage

If you talk to geneticists they are constantly finding that your genes are being switched on and off because of the environment. Genes alone do not determine an exact path in your life.

Jeffrey Eugenides

You don't have to be long off the tee, and we know the amazing effect an Open crowd can have if you're on your game and how they can lift you.

Ernie Els

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.

Frank Abagnale

To be honest, everything in my life outside of tennis is great. I'm doing amazing projects that, if I didn't have time off, I wouldn't be able to focus on.

Maria Sharapova