Keel Quotes

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business. (James Russell Lowell)
Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over. View quote
Brenda Blethyn
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction. View quote
Cyril Connolly
The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces. View quote
Abby Sunderland
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. View quote
George Chapman
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. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale. View quote
Matthew Green
I try to keep myself on an even keel by trying to be as critical of myself as I am of other people. I try to separate my performance from myself. View quote
Damon Hill
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. View quote
Jeff Daniels
I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned. View quote
Trisha Goddard
And see! she stirs! She starts,-she moves,-she seems to feel The thrill of life along her keel, And, spurning with her foot the ground, With one exulting, joyous bound, She leaps into the ocean's arms! (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
I guess I'll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die. View quote
Kristen Hersh
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. View quote
Neil Patrick Harris
The most useful thing I could do before this meeting is to keel over. On the other hand, artists are keeling over by the thousands every day and nobody seems to pay the least attention. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I have never worked as hard as now. I go for a brief walk in the morning. Then I come home and sit in my room without interruption until about three o'clock. My eyes can barely see. Then with my walking stick in hand I sneak off to the restaurant, but am so weak that I believe that if somebody were to call out my name, I would keel over and die. Then I go home and begin again. In my indolence during the past months I had pumped up a veritable shower bath, and now I have pulled the string and the ideas are cascading down upon me: healthy, happy, merry, gay, blessed children born with ease and yet all of them with the birthmark of my personality. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Hark, hark! the lark On windswept bark Freezes against a sky of lead! Now see him stop, Take one small hop, And suddenly keel over dead! View quote
Ogden Nash
In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel; the sea is both friend and enemy; and the seamanship consists in using the resources of a traditional manner of behaviour in order to make a friend of every hostile occasion. View quote
Michael Oakeshott
The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything. View quote
Agnes Martin
When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did. View quote
Al Hirt
I try to keep an even keel. View quote
Dan Fouts
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)
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. View quote
Emily Blunt
I used to break a lot of clubs. I probably was a little different than your average junior player. I did have a lot longer hair and a lot more brown hair. But my demeanor, you know, really from maybe my second, third year on Tour, has gotten a lot more even keel. View quote
Fred Couples
I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I've been good at. View quote
Jenny Eclair
Obama's even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold. View quote
Mara Liasson