I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. Sting (musician)
"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself. Epictetus
When you have just been told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon. P. G. Wodehouse
I have metal in my body, so every time I go to an airport, the metal detector goes off. Jesse Ventura
There are people who have the ability to wake up a minute or even seconds before their alarm goes off or to know what time they've woken up without even looking at a clock. Now, thank God, I don't have to get up in the mornings but the potential of the body to keep such accurate time is remarkable. Derren Brown
It goes off as when the blind fight. Swedish Proverb