Top 610 Key Quotes

There wasn’t a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.
Chris Cornell
I always tell people you don’t have to work out an hour every day, but I do make sure I sweat – I think that’s the biggest key to weight loss.
Molly Sims
Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser’s gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world, where my enjoyment have been intellectual joys.
Honore de Balzac
Many a treasure besides Ali Baba’s is unlocked with a verbal key.
Henry Van Dyke
I love singing some Johnny Cash, which is interesting because it’s in a guy’s key; I love singing Elvis Presley.
Samantha Barks
Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.
George Eastman
If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.
Yakov Smirnoff
The key is grow your talent, attract talent, and then you’ll attract the institutions that want to be around talent – and that, to me, is what we need to do at the national level.
Tim Kaine
Parents are key when it comes to keeping kids off drugs. Good parenting is the best anti-drug we have.
Mel Carnahan
The key to a good meal is simplicity and the right seasoning.
Buddy Valastro
Public conversations about who we are and who we want to be are key to the vitality of our democracy, and leaders can seed those conversations when they speak out their own views.
Abhijit Banerjee
I have a necklace with a golden key, given to me by my sisters, which I always wear.
Karlie Kloss
For us tall people, the whole key is that your hips and your knees should form a right angle when you sit down. That’s where backs and hips get to be problems for big guys.
Phil Jackson
Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
Alexander Graham Bell
Live life and enjoy it. That's the real key to beauty!

Live life and enjoy it. That’s the real key to beauty!
Michelle Visage
I always want to look like myself – that’s key for me. I don’t want to look like a different person, I don’t want my face frozen.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
Communication is the key, and it’s one thing I had to learn-to talk to the actors. I was so involved with the visual and technical aspects that I would forget about the actors.
Steve Buscemi
Thoughtful education programs and access to effective forms of contraception are key to preventing unplanned pregnancy.
Kristen Soltis Anderson
Maybe the key aspect of imposing fear to the opposition is to make them understand that we have no fear.
Diego Simeone
One of the key elements is the ability to be honest with yourself.
Bill Toomey
Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.
Morihei Ueshiba
You have to react to what’s around you in the moment, whatever the music is. Just think of it as some place you have to enter and you need to find the key.
Jan Garbarek
The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and accepting what is happening in our lives. It helps us to be aware of and step away from our automatic and habitual reactions to our everyday experiences.
Elizabeth Thornton
I think cooking is really key because it’s the only way you’re going to take back control of your diet from the corporations who want to cook for us. The fact is, so far, corporations don’t cook that well. They tend to use too much salt, fat, and sugar – much more than you would ever use at home.
Michael Pollan
Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.
Jocko Willink
In international cricket, the core group in most of the teams would remain same. So you know what’s expected, but they will operate in different conditions, which is why the homework about conditions is the key.
Rohit Sharma
Never say never. I always want to look like myself – that’s key for me. I don’t want to look like a different person, I don’t want my face frozen.
Courtney Thorne-Smith
Good leaders organize and align people around what the team needs to do. Great leaders motivate and inspire people with why they’re doing it. That’s purpose. And that’s the key to achieving something truly transformational.
Marillyn Hewson
Rest is obviously a key in the offseason.
Jamie Moyer
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
Evelyn Underhill
I couldn’t wait to look at someone who shared my genes. I thought my baby was going to provide a decoder key to my past. But then I looked at Pippa and realized, no, she’s actually the key to my future.
Emily Procter
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Honore de Balzac
Balance is key: I need to be successful in my career to feel fulfilled, be surrounded by people I care about to share it with, and have my health to be able to do the things I love to do!
Kiana Tom
Our key to transforming anything lies in our ability to reframe it.
Marianne Williamson
Education is the key to a bright future.
Vaani Kapoor
I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key.
Kelly Clarkson
To listen to your own silence is the key to comedy.
Elayne Boosler
Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
Mahatma Gandhi
Social media is a bit tricky but the key is in patience. I know it’s easier said than done, but I have been patient for six years and never gave up.
Bhuvan Bam
I learned that focus is key. Not just in your running a company, but in your personal life as well.
Tim Cook
Bin Laden was 200 miles away from the area where all of these drone strikes were taking out his key leaders, he was able to indulge in his hobbies… and he was making occasional video tapes and audio tapes to the wider world.
Peter Bergen
Jobs are a priority for every country. Doing more to improve regulation and help entrepreneurs is the key to creating jobs – and more growth.
Paul Wolfowitz
I sing in key, thank you very much.
Burton Cummings
One of our six key strategic priorities was the reinforcement of all professional staffing and solutions business.
Alain Dehaze
Transparency is key to reciprocal accountability, which we use to be both free and smart. It is the miracle tool that enables us to question the lies of monsters.
David Brin
The key to making money in angel investing is saying no

The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.
Kevin Rose
In today’s world, learning has become the key to economic prosperity, social cohesion and personal fulfillment. We can no longer afford to educate the few to think, and the many to do.
David Blunkett
I tell young comics, ‘Do you want this badly enough? It’s there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I’m going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.’
Jerry Lewis
Technology is a compulsive and addictive way to live. Verbal communication cannot be lost because of a lack of skill. The ability to listen and learn is key to mastering the art of communication. If you don’t use your verbal skills and networking, it will disappear rapidly. Use technology wisely.
Rick Pitino
I think being in love with life is a key to eternal youth.
Doug Hutchison
It is common knowledge now that we depend on insects for our continued existence; that, without key pollinators, the human population would collapse in less than a decade.
John Burnside
The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.
Lao Tzu
I think my acceleration is very good. That’s the key for me.
Usain Bolt
A key purpose of journalism is to provide an adversarial check on those who wield the greatest power by shining a light on what they do in the dark, and informing the public about those acts.
Glenn Greenwald
I think the key to working out is for people to think of water – just allow the workouts to fill out the cracks in your lives and seep into wherever you can fit it in.
LL Cool J
The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts.
Marianne Williamson
The word spiritual, not the word religious, is the key.
Clarence Clemons
Accessories are key – nothing beats a cool Panama hat or statement shades – look to Maison Michel or Miu Miu for inspiration.
Poppy Delevingne
I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body’s Southern song – the fusion of the South, my body’s song and me.
Margaret Walker
The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.
Lee Greenwood
Comedy was the key to everything. I grew up fast and controlled my future by bringing it on faster than it naturally unfolded. I cheated myself out of a childhood but then got a running headstart into adulthood that no one else could keep up with.
Margaret Cho
I can’t deny that some customers and prospects think it’s the key to our future. But it’s not. We’re certainly supportive of the Dept. of Justice and the 20 states that have brought this action.
Jim Barksdale
The key to tackling Islamist fundamentalism and terrorism from the Islamist community is in the hands of moderate Muslims.
Gijs de Vries
The key of ‘The Earth from Above,’ and of ‘Home’ is to show the beauty of the planet, and thereby to promote love for it.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Sometimes I feel like rap music is almost the key to stopping racism.
Eminem
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don’t really need to understand humans so well.
Andy Hertzfeld
A man who is ‘of sound mind’ is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.
Paul Valery
Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz’s ‘Expresso Bongo’ of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.
Peter York