Top 590 Keeps Quotes

The good thing about acting is that it always keeps you on your toes… It’s not like any other job where you can go in and do the same thing as yesterday.
Leonardo DiCaprio
A company is only as good as the people it keeps.
Mary Kay Ash
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Phyllis McGinley
What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.
Dennis Miller
Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what’s going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.
Martin Scorsese
I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.
Glen Campbell
Shouting at people keeps you alive, healthy, young, fresh.
Peter Capaldi
But you know you haven’t done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.
Conrad Hall
Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert.
John Stossel
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one’s own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.
Seamus Heaney
As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.
Alex Shoumatoff
Proprietary software keeps users divided and helpless. Divided because each user is forbidden to redistribute it to others, and helpless because the users can’t change it since they don’t have the source code. They can’t study what it really does. So the proprietary program is a system of unjust power.
Richard Stallman
It is a light thing for whoever keeps his foot outside trouble to advise and counsel him that suffers.
Aeschylus
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
Benjamin Franklin
I’ve been encouraging documentary filmmakers to use more and more humor, and they’re loath to do that because they think if it’s a documentary it has to be deadly serious – it has to be like medicine that you’re supposed to take. And I think it’s what keeps the mass audience from going to documentaries.
Michael Moore
Find a type of exercise that you love – whether it’s dance, soccer, softball, anything – just as long as it keeps you active. If you love it, you’ll dedicate yourself to it and stay involved.
Francia Raisa
Not truth, but faith, it is that keeps the world alive.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
If you are not bored by life, and your primary motto is enthusiasm and if you like your friends, family around you, it all translates into your designs. That’s what keeps the creativity alive.
Christian Louboutin
I always have a guitar or ukulele in the trailer, and I write songs. That keeps me in an artistic mind-set.
Billy Bob Thornton
The long irons are the nemesis of the average golfer. I’m convinced that the underlying reason for this is that he keeps hearing how hard they are to handle. They’re not that difficult, truly.
Jack Nicklaus
What keeps me going is my children.
Louis de Bernieres
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don’t have to work hard.
Jack Welch
I do think about aging. I have those moments of panic and vanity, but life keeps getting better, so you can’t worry about it too much.
Jennifer Garner
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Bill Watterson
The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.
Paul Ryan
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but ju

What keeps you going isn’t some fine destination but just the road you’re on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
Barbara Kingsolver
I admire Toni Morrison, Wole Soyinka, Margaret Atwood, James Baldwin, Elizabeth Strout, D. O. Fagunwa, Sefi Atta, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Colm Toibin and Junot Diaz. It’s a long list that keeps growing.
Ayobami Adebayo
Sex keeps me in shape. I don’t diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.
Lisa Snowdon
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Pythagoras
True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.
Jean Cocteau
Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.
Sridevi
We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
Dave Barry
That’s one strength that Stevie has. She’s really not a strong instrumentalist in any way. Her instrument is her voice and her words. And it keeps her focused on the very center of that.
Lindsey Buckingham
When you say ‘fear of the unknown’, that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it’s genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we’re not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.
M. Night Shyamalan
I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don’t fight, I’ll eat this planet.
George Foreman
At ‘SNL’ there’s framed pictures of all the cast members, and it starts with Dan Aykroyd. It’s linear. It just keeps going through all these people, and then you’re at the end of it.
Fred Armisen
My faith keeps me strong.
Cissy Houston
My music touches on things I am concerned with in my own life – the idea of a woman’s role in society, sexuality, desire, monogamy, fantasy and glamour. That’s what keeps me alive, and if I couldn’t keep creating that, I’d fall into a bit of heap.
Jane Badler
I honestly didn’t expect this much attention, but it just keeps happening so I must be doing something right.
Freddy Adu
Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.
Derek Jeter
You gotta look beyond the mainstream… the mainstream’ll drown you, you know? There’s always a pulse in the underground that I love. And the pulse in the underground is what keeps heavy metal alive.
Phil Anselmo
Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.
Don Dokken
The arts are so important not only to society but to ourselves as human beings. It keeps in touch with our own humanity. So access to the arts in any way, shape, or form is vital.
Audra McDonald
A trick I’ve learned is to eat just a little bit of something that has no carbs and no sugar in it before you go to sleep because it keeps your metabolism going.
Kelly Osbourne
Feeling good about yourself and your life is very important. I’m a happy woman, happy with my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren. We all get along quite well, and that keeps me centered.
Carolina Herrera
‘9 to 5,’ that little song, that little story, just won’t ever end. Just like ‘I Will Always Love You,’ it just keeps comin’ back, popping up its head in one way or another.
Dolly Parton
Sex keeps me fit and healthy. What can be better than that? It’s not about crazy diets or gym workouts.
Kelly Brook
I’ve always loved performing and, especially, love for the people. That’s what keeps me going.
Maceo Parker
He who keeps his cool best wins.
Norman Cousins
Sin is protean. It is a cancer that keeps mutating, and just when you think you have killed off one form, it turns out a deadlier strain yet is threatening your heart.
John Ortberg
I work because I want to work. Work keeps me going.
Robert Redford
When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n’ roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit – this keeps you interesting.
Carine Roitfeld
I am connected to the past in a way that keeps me going forward. Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.
Steve Earle
I like the challenges of doing different things. It keeps things fresh for me.
James Iha
I love reflexology – it’s amazing. As a person whose career is on my feet, it relaxes me and keeps me healthy and helps me do those long hours on the court.
Marcus Smart
I definitely think that, for a woman, the biggest turn-on is the mind. Otherwise, obviously you want someone who keeps up with himself and has self-respect and self-confidence.
Jennifer Nettles
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly exti

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke
I tend to look at things from the supply side, looking for ways to make it less expensive to do more production. I think that’s what creates a demand and keeps an economy moving.
Pat Toomey
Going to so many book events keeps me connected with my readership while constantly reminding me that all the long hours at the drawing desk are worthwhile.
Raina Telgemeier
My game is not always built off speed, it’s just my craft to where I can run routes and get in-and-out of my breaks as a big guy keeps me at a consistent level for a long time.
A. J. Green
Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.
Henry James
I’m always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.
Bret Hart