Quotes of: Keen Keyword

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

Judi Dench

Husband at Tube Station: [after Bond has leapt onto a moving underground train] He's keen to get home.

Skyfall

Claire Keen: Knowing that you don't know is the first and most essential step to knowing, you know?

Synecdoche, New York

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

Deborah Bull

I was always keen to get involved in the school drama productions and was a member of the school choir. I was lucky to have attended schools that took music and drama very seriously and the teachers were just brilliant.

Bronagh Gallagher

Sam Lowry: Mr. Helpmann, I'm keen to get into Information Retrieval. Mr. Helpmann, I'm dying to get at this woman... no, no, no.

Brazil

...empathy is the driving force behind the experience of emotions in narratives (Keen, 2006; Mar et al., 2006; Oatley, 2011).

Life

As my blog editor knows all too well, I wasn't all that keen to enter the blogosphere world.

Warren Bennis

Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.

Winston Churchill

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return.

The Art of War

There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I think that my whole career as a writer has been the substitute work of an unfulfilled painter.

J. G. Ballard

A man who offers to cook after he's seen you trying to freeze a dead dog has to be at least a little bit keen.

London, the Doggy and Me

How keen everyone is to make this world their home forgetting its impermanence It's like trying to see and name constellations in a fireworks display.

The Wasted Vigil

My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best...

Kate Bush

A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.

The Art of War

Keen winter stabs the breasts of May Whose crimson roses burst his frost, Ships tempest-tossed Will find a harbour in some bay, And so may.

Oscar Wilde

The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.

Thomas Merton

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

Keith Emerson

I don't like dirt. Cleanliness is high on my agenda, but I don't have a phobia of dirt. I'm just not keen on it. I don't really like dirty people or houses or smelly things.

Keeley Hawes

To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.

Mahatma Gandhi

Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach

Napoleon Hill