Quotes About Keen

Wicked, and — of course, perceptive.

I have always been a very visual person and a keen observer.

We certainly do need a foundation in critical thinking and in analytical and deductive reasoning in order to understand the world and not be totally lost or overwhelmed by it. So thinking — precise, keen, critical thinking — is an extremely important faculty we need to develop, refine, and

My dear Watson," he said, "you aren't supposed to be as clever as this.

I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.

I overthink everything. I'm very keen there should be a positive outcome. I like to control outcomes. But you can't. That's what is nice about being an actor, that you work really hard and it pays off. But at the end of the day, for it to be any good, you have to let go. I'd like to be better at this in life.

A falcon is the perfect hunter.

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

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

We, hurt by ourselves, keen to be hurters and keen to be hurt back deep inside. We, like weapons laid beside anger asleep.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

I have keen insight and a clear understanding of God's Word. I am a discerner of the signs of the times and know exactly what to do as God's prophecies are fulfilled before me.

The stories had, of course, been offensive and callously insensitive and had largely been ignored by everybody in the country except for those very few millions who were keen on offensive and callously insensitive things.

When it's fall in New York, the air smells as if someone's been frying goats in it, and if you are keen to breathe, the best plan is to open a window and stick your head in a building.

The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Everybody in St. Mary Mead knew Miss Marple; fluffy and dithery in appearance, but inwardly as sharp and as shrewd as they make them.

He notices a good deal. Those quiet people often do.

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.

In 2007, I was living in San Francisco. I came out of business school, and I was very keen on doing something with a small company. I felt that the market, in general, in mobile phones was just going to explode.

A keen wit stabs harder than a finely honed argument.

You know why I've survived in this job, year after year, lousy assignment after lousy assignment, with no counseling whatsoever? Because I have a keen appreciation of the ludicrous. Also because I have no choice.

She was so quiet, but she noticed everything. Her eyes tracked the world like it was a book written in a language she could not understand

He had been very keen on Esperanto, which had seemed an absurd eccentricity at the time but now Ursula thought it might be a good thing to have a universal language, as Latin had once been. Oh, yes, Miss Woolf said, a common language was a wonderful idea, but utterly utopian. All good ideas were, she said sadly.