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Off The Hook Quotes

The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.
- Sean Astin

Gary Oldman is impossible to steal a movie from. He's such a great actor, he's off the hook. I love him.
- Kevin Bacon

If there were any clear investigation of 9/11, they wouldn't let Louie Freeh off the hook.
- Sidney Blumenthal

When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions - completely off the hook. - Scott Turner Schofield
- Kate Bornstein

I'm just looking for someone," I hedge.
"Aren't we all?" Infinite Darlene vamps ruefully. I think I'm off the hook, but then she adds,
"Is it someone special?"
"It's nothing," I say, crossing my fingers. I pray that it's not nothing.
- David Levithan

My phone has been ringing off the hook. I have like 17 cell phones and pagers.
- Steven Cojocaru

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook?
- Ellen Goodman

What now?"
Conrad didn't let me off the hook that easy. He said, "What now with you and Jeremiah or with you and me?
- Jenny Han

I kept asking God for help, and after a while I realized something -- that Josh was not enjoying this either. He was just trying to take care of himself, and I made the radical decision to let him off the hook.
- Anne Lamott

With comedy, you have no place to go but more comedy, so you're never off the hook.
- Steve Martin

I'm going to let myself off the hook, because if there's one thing that is not my focus at the moment, it's how much I weigh.
- Emily Procter

I thought that if I accomplished enough, that somehow I would be let off the hook in the future. Like I didn't have to keep striving and achieving because I had done that already, and it would add up to being enough.
- Portia De Rossi

We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt servicing in the early days until they ran out of reserves. There was no real aid program, just a fictional aid program.
- Jeffrey Sachs

I don't like telling people where I stand on this, although I'm surprised anybody wonders. I suppose if I say I'm pro-choice, if I make that clear, it let's the audience off the hook, then they can sort of relax. Okay, it's alright he's pro-choice then I can enjoy this.
- Todd Solondz

Pushing Carson back out of the door, I grabbed my jacket off the hook and shoved my feet into the great old clogs that my poor podiatrist father wants outlawed.
"Don't you want to change or something?" Mom called after me.
"She'll never change," Carson answered, and followed me down the steps.
I settled myself into the passenger seat and buckled up as he back out of the driveway. "Your arches are falling?"
"Turns out I am deeply flawed," I admitted.
- Rachel Vail

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