Keen Quotes

Study the public behavior of top stars and you can detect a keen attentiveness to brand value.

A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.

The British were keen for 30 caliber guns, did not believe in daylight bombing. American experts said 30 caliber was not enough; we had to have 50 caliber, also said daylight bombing was right provided the planes attacked in formation, with 50 caliber guns.

It was pretty awful for us children because we never really knew the local children. Mother was keen for us to learn languages, so our travels took us to France and Italy, as well as the West Country.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Many of the criticisms about McDonald's are false. We are keen to provide people with as much nutritional information as possible to help them manage their diets.

It's a real pleasure to go to work when you're in the most extraordinary surroundings, and working with people who are young and interested and creatively keen.

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

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

Competition is the keen cutting edge of business, always shaving away at costs.

Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

Philosophy likes to keen common sense on the run.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

Remember that when you meet your antagonist, to do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be keen, but, at the same time, as polished as your sword.

I'm not keen on history being tampered with... to any extent.

I trained as a designer, so I'm always terribly keen about what I'm going to look like.

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.

We discovered that there was a great deal of keen interest in America for the kinds of products that we thought could be produced here. Also there was an interest in Britain for Australian material generally.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

I was so keen to get back to sea. I was rattled.

My husband was actually very keen that I would become a Bond girl.

It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.

At the moment I'm enjoying a new challenge at the Royal Opera House, but I'm also keen to pursue my interest in television and particularly in science.

I am still a keen mountain walker and an enthusiastic glider pilot.

I think over there in Montreal they're a bit hardcore with the old homos. They're not that keen on them.

God gave us intestines for a reason. I'm not keen on surgery. It's too extreme. All it took was one of those plastic surgery shows to see how violent it is.

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

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 was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.