Quotes About Keen

But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.

A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience.

This anger in your eyes, is it because you are hunting the Windigo?". "I don't know what it is I'm hunting, Henry." Meloux nodded thoughtfully, still looking keenly at Cork. "The Windigo was a man once. His heart was not always ice. What makes a man's heart turn to ice? I would think bout that, and I would think about how to fight the Windigo.

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 he never stops thinking about the game, the situation, and trying to turn it to his advantage. He has been very good for the game.

I've always had a keen sense of history. My father was an antiques dealer and he used to bring home boxes full of treasures, and each item always had a tale attached.

To feel sabi is to feel keenly one's own sharp and particular existence amid its own impermanence, and to value the singular moment as William Blake did "infinity in the palm of your hand"—to feel it precise and almost-weightless as a sand grain, yet also vast.

I was very keen. I was super-eager to please and be good. And I was always kind of bossy.

Ive met people of all abilities and all ages. The groups are split accordingly; advanced groups are made up of swimmers keen on longer distances, intermediates who use swimming as part of their exercise routine, while many of the beginners havent even tried front crawl before.

Miss Emily had an intellect you could slice logs with.

If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make.

Who riseth from a feastWith that keen appetite that he sits down?

To the latter end of a fray and the beginning of a feastFits a dull fighter and a keen guest.

The Brethren? Whatever for? Do they wash a lot? Baptisms, wet clothes, that sort of thing?' 'Of course not. It was a museum piece; they took it off to sell it. They're very keen on money. I think they're dishonest, too.

There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile mind, and no scruples whatsoever.

I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.

I got roles from good production houses, though I wasn't keen on them, as I was asked to - and I won't - wear a bikini in a film. I'm not conservative, as I'd wear it on holidays, but definitely not in front of the camera. I have to think of my family.

It's a cat. Boy, you couldn't slip anything past me tonight.

It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.

Many (Christians) have zeal without knowledge, enthusiasm without enlightenment. In more modern jargon, they are keen but clueless.

My grandfather is my biggest fashion critic. He takes a keen interest in the millennial fashion, most of which he disapproves of, but he is a very practical fashion critic.

Nigeria is a great footballing nation and deserves to assume her rightful place in Africa and world football and I am keen to be part of a team that achieves this goal.

who no doubt honored a keen memory as a sign—bogus though it was in and of itself—of intelligence:

Never was there a dogma more calculated to foster indolence, and to blunt the keen edge of curiosity, than the assumption of the discordance between the former and the existing causes of change.