Off Quotes

Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

The most important thing of all is my parents were able to leave all four of their children better off than themselves. That story has a name, it’s called the American dream.

I began to write when I was seven, and I have been writing off and on ever since. It is still off and on. You can say that when I am on, when I know I have a book which I am going to write, then I write two thousand words a day. That’s so many pages longhand.

There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

I personally believe patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions.

I don’t like people’s table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

We need to find ways to elevate the expectations, particularly of those individuals who may start off on a lower socioeconomic rung, who might be seen as disadvantaged. But, you know, the reason I say be seen as disadvantaged, it’s because life is so short, and there’s so much that can change.

Just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn’t really get to see – my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It’s just me.