Turn Off Quotes - Page 3

• Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

  Timothy Leary

  Doubt, Mind, Relax

  Timothy Leary (1964). “The Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead”

  28 Copy quote

  Show source

• In a moment, when I'm ready, I will turn off this computer and that will be it. This letter will be finished. A part of me doesn't want to stop writing to you, but I need to. For both of us.

  Lucy Christopher

  Writing, Needs, Letters

  Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.255, Scholastic Inc.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

  Lynn Redgrave

  Sports, Fans, Television

  7 Copy quote

• The biggest turn-off for me is people who think the world of themselves. Arrogance is not a sexy quality, and it really gets on my nerves.

  Pixie Lott

  Sexy, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• Turn off the TV and start digging around for information that's not from a corporation trying to make money.

  Iris DeMent

  Trying, Digging, Corporations

  "The poor are treated like enemies". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. April 18, 1998.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.

  William Powell

  Eye, Night, Light

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, "Postscript", p. 157, 1971.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Kidd, turn off the light to spare my blushes.

  Henry James

  Light, Turns, Spares

  4 Copy quote

• I can't turn off the way I think, and that's essentially who I am, who anybody is.

  Marilyn Manson

  Thinking, Who I Am, Way

  "MARILYN MANSON: 'I Am Misanthropic And Self-Loathing, But Never Nihilistic'". The Miami Herald Interview, www.blabbermouth.net. January 20, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My ears sort of turn off when someone tells me that what my heart is saying isn’t a good idea.

  Chrisette Michele

  Heart, Ideas, Ears

  "Natural Hair Celebrity- Chrisette Michele". Curly Nikki Interview, www.curlynikki.com. April 12, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you make the decision to send your kid to public school don't even look at private schools. Just shut the door. Just turn off the TV. And then you don't even have to worry about preschool. You have to worry about what's good for your kid, but you don't have to worry about how to position yourself.

  Cynthia Nixon

  School, Kids, Doors

  4 Copy quote

• We [with husband] try and spend time alone, which is really hard to do. Of course, when you have kids they're like: "Why are you going out? You went out last night... you can't go out tonight!" so, you try to do that, and you try and ask somebody to please turn off the football game because you can't stand it any longer and you'd rather talk to them.You try to make time for each other where you can. You try to plan a trip away somewhere.

  Julianne Moore

  Football, Husband, Kids

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Willem Dafoe

  Sound, Should, Turns

  "Willem Dafoe: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 20, 2012.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know this is silly, it's shallow, it's bad, I wish I wasn't this way-but if I meet a girl with no teeth, I just don't want to date her. It's creepy of me, I wish I was a bigger person, but that's my real turn-off.

  Peter Farrelly

  Girl, Real, Silly

  7 Copy quote

• I never had a month or so go by where I haven't had a job, but you always worry that someone will turn off the tap.

  Dean Norris

  Jobs, Worry, Months

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I did TV shows and movies, the studios did demographic research. They were shocked to find that my audience isn't just men who are too drunk to turn off the TV after football. It's women, too. I don't know exactly why, other than that I've tried to remain true to myself for all these years. I have gone through a lot, and I've been open about it. Maybe they look at me and can see how you can grow up, have children, continue to be sexy, get married and divorced and, though you grew up poor, live the American dream. I'm very blessed. I'm happy for it all.

  Pamela Anderson

  Sexy, Football, Dream

  Playboy, May 2004.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not rude to turn off your telephone by switching it on to an answering machine, which is cheaper and less disruptive than ripping it out of the wall. Those who are offended because they cannot always get through when they seek, at their own convenience, to barge in on people are suffering from a rude expectation.

  Judith Martin

  Wall, People, Expectations

  Judith Martin (1990). “Miss Manners' Guide for the Turn-of-the-Millennium”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The study of how substances alter gene expression is part of the field of epigenetics. Some chemical exposures appear to turn on and turn off genes in ways that disregulate cell growth and predispose for cancer. From this perspective, our genes are less the command-and-control masters of our cells and more like the keys of piano, with the environment as the hands of the pianist.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Cancer, Piano, Keys

  Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.19, Da Capo Press

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you want to give birth to your true self, you are going to have to dig deep down into that body of yours and let your soul howl. Sometimes you have to take a leap of faith and trust that if you turn off your head, your feet will take you where you need to go.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Self, Feet, Giving

  257 Copy quote

• In your bed tonight, turn off all of the lights and make sure that there is no noise. There is something that you will hear. It is probably that branch slapping the window but you better believe that your mind is going to go to some sick individual tapping on the glass because he wants to get your attention to come to the window for when you do you will be grabbed through it and pulled outside. That happens to me all of the time.

  Marcus Dunstan

  Believe, Glasses, Light

  4 Copy quote

• While we can't turn off the aging gene, we do go to a lot of extremes to stay young, I've noticed.

  Andrew Niccol

  Aging, Genes, Young

  "Comic-Con 2011: Justin Timberlake, Amanda Seyfried and Andrew Niccol Interview IN TIME". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sometimes it's very hard to turn off my brain especially when I have an eighteen hour day. I try to stop working by 10 or 11pm but you know sometimes there is nothing I can do about it.

  Aaron Zigman

  Brain, Trying, Sometimes

  4 Copy quote

• Pickup lines are a major turn-off, they don't work on me and I tune them out. It's better to just be honest.

  Kim Smith

  Lines, Tunes, Honest

  4 Copy quote

• My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

  James Thurber

  Wall, Grandmother, Years

  7 Copy quote

• Unless you turn out to be a shining and ballistic genius, then, trust me, if you want to do this then you're going to be spending the next few years doing little else. This is a thing you do at a table with a notebook and a keyboard, and there's no getting away from it. Put in the hours. You don't get to turn off 'being a writer.'

  Warren Ellis

  Notebook, Years, Shining

  11 Copy quote

• I wanted to turn everything off, too. Just press a button - click - and shut myself down. Turn off my heart, turn off my mind, turn off my body - just lie there, senseless, like a dormant tree in winter, waiting for the spring to return.

  Kevin Brooks

  Spring, Lying, Heart

  6 Copy quote