Keel Quotes - Page 2

• I can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

  Johnny Carson

  Waiting Around, Guy, President

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

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• I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

  Rainn Wilson

  Kings, Age, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think there is something exhilarating in flying amongst clouds, and always get a feeling of wanting to pit my aeroplane against them, charge at them, climb over them to show them you have them beat, circle round them, and generally play with them; but clouds can on occasion hold their own against the aviator, and many a pilot has found himself emerging from a cloud not on a level keel.

  Charles Rumney Samson

  Thinking, Clouds, Play

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• Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air.

  George Chapman

  Life, Running, Wind

  George Chapman (1990). “The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles Duke of Byron”, p.35, Manchester University Press

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• A guy said to me one time, something really profound, and it's so simple. It's that depression lies. It's a liar and you have to shut it down. There is nothing that alleviates it more than going out and doing something for someone else. It's almost like instant healing. Get away from yourself. People can't even get out of bed and it gets really severe. I've never been at that stage. Everyone goes through low and high and low and high and some people are blessed to be created on an even keel all the way through - but not me.

  Mel Gibson

  Liars, Lying, Blessed

  "Exclusive: Mel Gibson Finally Talks". Interview with Allison Hope Weiner, deadline.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I try to keep an even keel.

  Dan Fouts

  Trying

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• Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

  Donny Osmond

  Knowing, Anxiety Disorder, Goes On

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• I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

  Jeff Daniels

  Life, Thinking, Snow

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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• Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

  Cyril Connolly

  Sadness, Reality, Wind

  "The Unquiet Grave". Book by Cyril Connolly, 1944.

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• Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one.

  Ila Borders

  Motivational, Softball, Sports

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• I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

  Denny Crum

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Player

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• Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

  William James

  Memories, Ships, Should

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.680, Courier Corporation

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• If one makes a mistake, then an apology is usually sufficient to get things back on an even keel. However-and this is a big ‘however’- most people do not ever know why their apology did not seem to have any effect. It is simply that they did not make a mistake; they made a choice…and never understood the difference between the two.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, Mistake, Apology

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• I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

  Tiger Woods

  Thinking, Knack, Tense

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• I'm probably my biggest critic. I worry that if you spend any quality time reveling in good things then karma will slap you upside the head, so I try to stay as even keel as I'm able.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Karma, Worry, Trying

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• Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

  Bruce Campbell

  Eye, Effort, Actors

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• Who hath seen the Phantom Ship,
  Her lordly rise and lowly dip,
  Careering o'er the lonesome main,
  No port shall know her keel again...
  Ah, woe is in the awful sight,
  The sailor finds there eternal night,
  'Neath the waters he shall ever sleep,
  And Ocean will the secret keep

  Albert Pinkham Ryder

  Ocean, Sleep, Night

  Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Albert Pinkham Ryder (1918). “Loan exhibition of the works of Albert P. Ryder”

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• It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Blue, Hands, Sea

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Complete Novels of Rudyard Kipling: The Light That Failed + Captain Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks + Kim + The Naulahka: A Story of West and East (Illustrated): Including his early autobiographical novel Stalky & Co.”, p.214, e-artnow

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• Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

  Johnny Depp

  Sailing, Black, Nautical

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• I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

  Andy Irons

  Surf, Oblivion

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• Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive.
  They are supersensitive.
  They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas,
  long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Artist, Long, Poison

  "Physicist, Purge Thyself". Chicago Tribune Magazine, June 22, 1969.

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• I try never to get too high when things are going well. I try never to get too low when things are going poorly. I try to keep an even keel.

  Barack Obama

  Motivation, Trying, Lows

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• The slave labors, but with no cheer - it is not the road to respectability, it will honor him with no citizens' trust, it brings no bread to his family, no grain to his garner, no leisure in after-days, no books or papers to his children. It opens no school-house door, builds no church, rears for him no factory, lays no keel, fills no bank, earns no acres. With sweat and toil and ignorance he consumes his life, to pour the earnings into channels from which he does no drink, into hands that never honor him. But perpetually rob and often torment.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Cheer, Children, Book

  "Modern Agitators: or, Pen Portraits of Living American Reformers". Book by David W. Bartlett, 1856.

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• I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at.

  Jenny Eclair

  Moderation, Lows, Highs And Lows

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. December 8, 2008.

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• I'm on a health kick! I'm drawn to cheeseburgers, so I've got to just try and keep it on an even keel.

  Emily Blunt

  Trying, Kicks, Cheeseburger

  "A spot of tea and bit of 'Sunshine' with Emily Blunt". Interview with Jenny Sundel, usatoday30.usatoday.com. April 1, 2009.

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