Keep Quotes

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

You gotta keep the funny intact.

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges.

Even when I begin with a situation that's basically funny or sad, I like to keep poking around in it. I like to get into the middle of a relationship, to explore the subtle places.

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Ah! yes, I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.

Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.

You know, we're very private, and I think that we really separate and try to keep our privacy to ourselves. There's things that people assume a lot of times, and we understand that people are interested, but we really try to keep our family life private as much as we can.

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I am a morning writer; I am writing at eight-thirty in longhand and I keep at it until twelve-thirty, when I go for a swim. Then I come back, have lunch, and read in the afternoon until I take my walk for the next day's writing.

The point is, the political reporters are the ones who no longer understand the ritual they are covering. They keep searching for political meanings in the tepid events when a convention is now essentially a human drama and only that.

I have brought a PS2 on set with me before. But games can be really addicting, and that's dangerous. So I tend to keep it fairly limited on a certain level.

If we're so cruel to minorities, why do they keep coming here? Why aren't they sneaking across the Mexican border to make their way to the Taliban?

I've been employed by the University of Helsinki, and they've been perfectly happy to keep me employed and doing Linux.

I don't talk to anybody about my personal life, and maybe that perpetuates it, too. But it's really important to own what you want to own and keep it to yourself.

I have always had a tendency to keep enlarging problems which I personally think is the way the world works... that seeing anything one dimensionally on the kinds of political, sort of big issues of human progress is going to be a distorted view of things, which is why over my career I have gone seemingly from subject to subject to subject.

Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.

But deluded people don't realize that their own mind is the Buddha. They keep searching outside.

This campaign was special because we always kept the challenger mentality we had from the start. We managed to keep the against-all-odds, can-do spirit that kept us going when no one thought we could win.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

You can't seperate modern jazz from rock or from rhythm and blues - you can't seperate it. Because that's where it all started, and that's where it all come from - that's where I learned to keep rhythm - in church.

I feel like I want to keep moving toward idiosyncracy. Personal, personal, personal.

Differences are scarier now. The dollar isn't so guaranteed if you don't follow what they see as the norm. But I don't moan about it. I just keep working.

Keep your enemies in front of you.