Keen Quotes

330 Keen quotes by 284 unique authors

While at Oxford in 1999, I met Jonathan Fortier, who is a Montreal-born Canadian. Despite the challenges of a transatlantic relationship, we remained keen on… — Anne Fortier
Never at any point did I feel like missing a training session. I was very keen on improving as a cricketer and as an international… — Virat Kohli
I am a keen observer of my own films; I also try to discover myself through the movies I make. — Imtiaz Ali
It is a keen measure of the fall of American influence in the region when a Palestinian leader responds to intense American pressure to go… — Elliott Abrams
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I… — J. G. Ballard
There are many Israelis who are not keen on Barack Obama - they did not want to see him elected. — Richard Engel
My parents brought us up in a very clever way, which was that they saw what we were interested in naturally, and then they encouraged… — Kit Harington
My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is… — Maeve Binchy
My mother was a waitress in a Lyons Corner House, but she married up. She was keen on bettering herself. She taught me how to… — Charles Dance
My dad was a keen actor when he was young; my auntie is heavily involved in amateur dramatics back in Northern Ireland, and my great… — Jamie Dornan
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no… — Bob Considine
Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time,… — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
He is a very positive captain; he is proactive as well as reactive. He is keen to read the game, to get in there, and… — David Gower
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… — Keith Emerson
It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our… — Mary Wesley
People were so keen to get investment. In those days, there was quite significant unemployment in Northern Ireland, and that had been the general pattern… — John Hume
I said, look, do you think you could bring Gerry through, and they said yeah, absolutely, they thought that. Joel was very keen to cast… — Andrew Lloyd Webber
We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here.… — Ann Macbeth
The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and… — Josiah Stamp
This bored fantastic woman, with her animal nature, giving herself the pleasure of seeing her enemy struck down, not a particularly keen one for her… — Gustave Moreau
It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was… — Marcus Allen
The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate… — John Millington Synge
I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy. — Emma Watson
No one is more keen than me to see the Hunting Act repealed, because I believe in the management of wildlife. — Owen Paterson

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