Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. Votes: 1
Henry FordLove takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. Votes: 1
James A. BaldwinOne day between takes on the 'Oz' set, I went into one of the cells and laid down and dozed off. When I woke up, I thought I was back in a federal pen. But I did my time, and today no one is more of a free man than Chuck Zito. Votes: 1 Chuck Zito
This so-called fame or being better off doesn't really attract me at all. Votes: 3 Ai Weiwei
I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off. Votes: 1 Mary Lambert
Not being secure affects us as humans. It throws us off our balance. It puts us in disarray. Votes: 1 Sonequa Martin-Green
Schools must stop being holding pens to keep energetic young people off the job market and off the streets. We stretch puberty out a long, long time. Votes: 1 Toni Morrison
Sometimes I just want to paint the words "It's my fault" across my forehead to save people the time of being pissed off at me. Votes: 3 Christina Westover
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. Votes: 1 James Herriot
Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing. Votes: 4 Audrey Niffenegger
Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. Votes: 3 Aristotle
What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned. Votes: 1 Laverne Cox
On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops. Votes: 4 Kat Graham
I like to have my hair grow, because I need to have hair for different roles. But I'm a woman, so I'm always cutting my hair off and wishing that I hadn't. Votes: 1 Debi Mazar
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched. Votes: 1 Caleb Cushing
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off. Votes: 3 Abe Lemons
Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you - you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside. Votes: 4 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Pick yourself up, dust yourself off, start all over again. Votes: 3 Dorothy Fields
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still. Votes: 2 Calvin Trillin
I want to help you "fly right" in the gathering storms of the last days. You are the pilots. You are responsible to think about the consequences of every choice you make. Your righteous choices will keep you from getting off course. Votes: 3 Robert D. Hales
Just start thinking about all the different services in your life. Like getting your dry cleaning picked up and dropped off. Nobody has done the Uber of that yet. But that will be Uberfied. You will arrange your dry cleaning via your phone. Votes: 1 Jason Calacanis
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. Votes: 2 Sarah Vowell
I think you translate emotion better when you take your hands off. Votes: 4 Alison Krauss
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it. Votes: 2 Ray Bradbury
Getting high off life is more than enough, and peer pressure ain't peer pressure when a boy is tough. Votes: 3 Kool Moe Dee
It was wonderful, a stunning happy ending to what began as another tragic rock & roll story, as if Bob Dylan had been arrested in Miami for jacking off in a seedy little XXX theater while stroking the spine of a fat young boy. Votes: 2 Hunter S. Thompson
What Strauss is going through drives you nuts. If you care about your batting - which I'm sure he does - he will feel like jumping off a bridge and committing suicide Votes: 3 Bill Vaughan
I have the flying dream a lot where I'm jumping off a building and just flying around. Votes: 3 Channing Tatum
Love's like a junkie, addiction's a fact. Passion's a monkey, you can't keep off your back. Votes: 3 Elton John
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something. Votes: 2 Daymond John
The lights are off and the sun if finally setting, the night sky is changing overhead Votes: 3 Tegan Quin
I'm born and raised in Mexico. I only spent eight months in the States, but definitely English is a really big part of my life, and I love it. Thank God my mom put me in American school because I'm able to be working in the States, and it opens a lot more doors being half and not being only one. It's cool because I get to turn it on and off. Votes: 3 Eiza Gonzalez
There are no days off in our division. Even a team like Tampa Bay can beat you up. Votes: 3 Josh Beckett
Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent. Votes: 3 Fran Lebowitz
I went to Boston University and got my BFA, and performed Off Broadway. Votes: 3 Jenn Proske
I grew up racing off-road trucks. They were on road courses with jumps. I made a name for myself in that style of racing. Votes: 1 Jimmie Johnson
My humor is a lot like Kristen Wiig's from 'Saturday Night Live' or 'Bridesmaids.' Quirky, off the beaten path. Votes: 3 Nicole Ari Parker
I live in Mexico in the wintertime, and I live off the grid down there. Votes: 3 Jesse Ventura
At an incredibly divisive point in pop history, Donna Summer managed to create an undeniable across-the-board experience of mass pleasure - after 'Bad Girls,' nobody ever tried claiming disco sucked again. It set the template for what Michael Jackson would do a few months later with 'Off The Wall.' Votes: 3 Rob Sheffield
College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. Votes: 2 George Gobel
Republicans went off track. We were spending too much money. Votes: 3 Steve Chabot
I think the real reason for my improvement is because I had such a long period in the off-season just working as hard as I could on all my new dives; making sure I did lots of repetition to get them consistent. Votes: 1 Tom Daley
A man's got two shots for jewelry: a wedding ring and a watch. The watch is a lot easier to get on and off than a wedding ring. Votes: 1 John Mayer
Being unemployed is even more disastrous for individuals than you'd expect. Aside from the obvious harm - poverty, difficulty paying off debts - it seems to directly affect people's health, particularly that of older workers. Votes: 3 James Surowiecki
If you're going to live in the house make it your goal to just pay off your mortgage. Votes: 1 Suze Orman
I like extreme situations: people pushed out of their comfort zones; the civil veneer stripped off. Votes: 1 Sarah Hall
Scrabble was invented by Nazis to piss off kids with dyslexia. Votes: 3 Eddie Izzard
We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off. Votes: 2 Chuck Palahniuk
If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it. Votes: 3 Olin Miller
I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow! Votes: 2 Sam Levenson
As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites. Votes: 1 Camille Paglia
We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need. Votes: 4 Brantley Gilbert
Don't show off every day, or you'll stop surprising people. There must always be some novelty left over. The person who displays a little more of it each day keeps up expectations, and no one ever discovers the limits of his talent. Votes: 2 Baltasar Gracian
Telling lies and showing off to get attention are mistakes I made that I don't want my kids to make. Votes: 7 Jane Fonda
We won't be signing off until the world ends. We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event . . . we'll play 'Nearer, My God, to Thee' before we sign off. Votes: 4 Ted Turner
The outlook on practice is we really have to prepare harder. We really have to focus harder on everything - we can't slack off. Any slacking off is going to put us behind. Votes: 3 Darrion Scott
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. Votes: 1 Clarence Day
When a woman gives birth to a child, the child needs to be able to digest the mother's milk; but when this child is old enough to begin to eat other foods, there is some switching off of this ability to consume milk. Votes: 4 Marvin Harris
My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship. Votes: 1 Omar Dorsey
Appearing in 'Legally Blonde' has helped me find my inner girl, although at the beginning the director was constantly telling me off for sitting like a boy, with my legs apart, while wearing a cocktail dress and heels! Votes: 1 Sheridan Smith
At the risk of sounding like that old guy in 'Gran Torino' telling those 'young punks' to 'get off my lawn,' it's gotten to the point that whenever I hear somebody talking about Twitter or twittering or tweeting, it just makes my little tummy want to hurl. Votes: 1 John Ridley
Sugar does make people happy, but then you fall off the edge after a few minutes, so I've really pretty much cut it out of my diet. Except for cupcakes. I like those. Votes: 1 David Lynch
No one is right when it comes to destination weddings. It's a big ask, requesting people take time off work and fly off to take a cruise just to see you get married. Votes: 3 Mallory Ortberg
Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they're making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that's the difference. Votes: 2 Lou Holtz
There's nothing cure or funny or lovable about being cheap. It's a total turn-off. Votes: 2 Douglas Coupland
Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light. Votes: 4 Joyce Carol Oates
Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly. Votes: 3 Harvey Mackay