Top 33 Keel Quotes

I try to keep an even keel.

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.

I’ve often thought that Obama should come out in favor of oxygen, just to see how many right-wingers keel over from holding their breath for too long.

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.

I guess I’ll just slip into the studio after the next time with the Muses, and then just keel over and die.

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.

Thus, I steer my bark, and sail On even keel, with gentle gale.

Before every performance, I think I am about to keel over.

Leisure time is only leisure time when it is earned; otherwise, leisure time devolves into soul-killing lassitude. There’s a reason so many new retirees, freed from the treadmill of work, promptly keel over on the golf course: Work fulfills us. It keeps us going.

When you’re down, are you going to be mentally down and make it last longer, or are you going to stay positive, keep an even keel?

I’m a very normal person with a very even keel.

I think my ability to joke and laugh about things is because I’m forced to. I’ve been through a lot of things in my life that, if I didn’t make light of it, I would literally keel over.

You just have to stay the course, you can’t get too high or too low on yourself. There is always going to be those highs and those lows, but you have to stay even keel yourself.

There is a cliche that probably has some anecdotal evidence on the side that comedians are very depressed people, but that’s because no one is ever going to seem as funny in a normal conversation as compared to when they’re up there onstage in the spotlight making a huge audience keel over with laughter.

Of course I’m proud of what I’ve done, but I’m interested in what’s next. I want to be relevant now, in 2012. I’ve done my bit for the past. I’ve only ever been about what’s next, really, and I’ll be that way until I keel over.

When you succeed, you know, you can get swell-headed or you can be failing, and then you are all down in doldrums. So I try, as much as possible, to keep an even keel.

I prefer highs and lows to an even keel. Moderation is never something I’ve been good at.

There are always highs and lows in life, but if you maintain an even keel, then you can take the right decisions.

Looking back at those great singers like Gordon MacRae and Howard Keel – they have such a specific kind of style that it seems like we don’t really appreciate anymore.

I’m a very even keel guy.

You need to run the company on an even keel, and you need to be thinking about the company long-term and how to drive your next innovation.

I was born on an even keel. Family lore says I never cried, even at birth. I felt at ease on earth, in the right place. And like many children, I took comfort in life’s regularity: Every few days it rained, the school bus came and went, and my parents were rooted in their union.

I work very hard to keep on an even keel as far as alcohol is concerned.

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.

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.

The reason I still love performing is that people my age, a little younger and a little older, show up to relive that thing that made them so happy all those years ago. And as long as they show up, I’ll keep on keepin’ on till I keel over.

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn’t keel over and die before he did.

Steve Nash, Grant Hill, they were always preaching whether you win or lose. You have to keep an even keel, keep a level head.

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.

I’ve always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that’s just a knack that I’ve always had.

Raw foodists are kind of paddling upstream against evolution. The only reason they can do it, and they don’t all keel over, is that they are using blenders. They’re very Cuisinart-dependent.

The day I stop making music would be the day I keel over, really.

If I’m mad or showing my frustration, the whole team’s gonna be like that, techs, and people are going to go down. So I just try to keep the even keel. That’s why I don’t get too high or too low. I’ve been playing like that my whole life. It’s just natural for me.