We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!
Dave Matthews

For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
David Foster Wallace

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I'm coming after you and taking back what's mine.
Billy Mays

The creative process is not controlled by a switch you can simply turn on or off; it's with you all the time.
Alvin Ailey

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.
Toni Morrison

I have my ideas, I have my music and I also just enjoy showing off, so that's a big part of it. Also, I like to get up onstage and behave insanely or express myself physically, and the band can get pretty silly.
Bruce Springsteen

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.
Zora Neale Hurston

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.
Zora Neale Hurston

We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
Vivienne Westwood

Like the Spitfire it was immensely strong: a pilot had no need to fear the danger of pulling the wings off, no matter how desperate the situation became.
Douglas Bader

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.
John Updike

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse.
Zhuangzi

Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction: absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.
Ovid

The really good idea is always traceable back quite a long way, often to a not very good idea which sparked off another idea that was only slightly better, which somebody else misunderstood in such a way that they then said something which was really rather interesting.
John Cleese

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.
John Cleese

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.
Dag Hammarskjold

So I wonder if anything should ever be off limits.
Kathy Griffin

The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set off a revolution.
Paul Cezanne

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits.
William S. Burroughs

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.
Steven Tyler