Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good looking. You can realize that I… — Franz Schubert
My mother's a genius. She just kept feeding me art on whatever we had; paper plates, silver platter, didn't matter. You know, she just kept… — Jill Scott
I was already on pole, then by half a second and then one second and I just kept going. Suddenly I was nearly two seconds… — Ayrton Senna
I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept… — Shakira
My parents had a normal life in Russia and they could have easily kept living a normal life, working and raising a child in Russia. — Maria Sharapova
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. — George Bernard Shaw
Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever. — Charlie Sheen
When people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. — Sidney Sheldon
The Pentagon said that these prisoners were kept in accordance with the Geneva Convention, and of course I was not reassured by that, but I… — Peter Singer
I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a… — Anna Deavere Smith
To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying… — Tom Stoppard
I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA… — Ellen Tauscher
'Long Black Train' was inspired by a vision that I had of a long, black train running down this track way out in the middle… — Josh Turner
I'm grateful for doing those drugs, because they kept me from getting laid and I would have gotten AIDS. — Steven Tyler
The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where… — Gore Vidal
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities. — Mia Wasikowska
I was an adventurer, and I got married a few times. I kept trying to find a relationship as good as my parents'. — Jacki Weaver
A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is… — Jessamyn West
His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork. — Mae West
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with… — Barry White
With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl… — Esther Williams
When I was younger I probably didn't understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm's distance and that's not… — Debra Winger
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit… — James Wolcott

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