Top 25 Keel Quotes

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

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

Obama’s even keel sometimes comes across as aloof or even cold.

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

I’m a very even keel guy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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’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.

Well, unless you’ve suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it’s hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you’re actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 try to keep an even keel.

Me and my dad are mates now, it is quality, I love it. I feel like we are now on an even keel.

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.