Kept Quotes

2728 Kept quotes by 1970 unique authors

I was trying to daydream, but my mind kept wandering. — Steven Wright
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. — Steven Wright
I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it… — Steven Wright
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I was always afraid of dying. Always. It was my fear that made me learn everything I could about my airplane and my emergency equipment,… — Chuck Yeager
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. — Henny Youngman
Bakers get excited over aprons. I love the soft cotton ones with pockets like my gramma and mom wore. They always kept a hankie tucked… — Regina Brett
Every film has an origin. It is made under certain circumstances, and that is a very important point that should be kept in mind during… — Anurag Kashyap
Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit… — Anne Graham Lotz
The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world… — Emma Goldman
Whenever the horse stopped (which it did very often), he fell off in front; and, whenever it went on again (which it generally did rather… — Lewis Carroll
Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private… — Pablo Neruda
Life must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. — Robert Frost
To work and work and never mind why; if you kept looking for the why behind everything you might never work again, you might never… — Kathe Koja
Ónen i-estel edain, ú-chebin estel anim. (I gave Hope to the Dúnedain, I have kept none for myself.) (Gilraen's linnod) — J.R.R. Tolkien
Mother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising. — Haven Kimmel
I understand that fear is my friend, but not always. Never turn your back on Fear. It should always be in front of you, like… — Hunter S. Thompson
And if the man who once upon a time had been a boy who promised he'd never fall in love with another girl as long… — Nicole Krauss
You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or… — Douglas Coupland
The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure… — John Ashbery
It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented… — Ian Mcewan
That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact… — Joan Didion
Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way. — Ellen Gilchrist
A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages. — Tennessee Williams
There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved… — Henry Miller

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