Top 85 Keel Quotes & Sayings

Communication is the root of marital success from which a strong union can grow, and noncommunicatio n is the rock on which the ship will bash out her keel.

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

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'm a very normal person with a very even keel.

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.

For me, I try to stay even keel.

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

Selection is the very keel on which our mental ship is built. And in this case of memory its utility is obvious. If we remembered everything, we should on most occasions be as ill off as if we remembered nothing.

I've tried to dial my emotions down: not get too high, not get too low, try to find that even-keel tennis.

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 majority of people who keel over dead at concerts are killed by a long trumpet passage.

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.

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.

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 can empathize with President [George Bush]. I know what it feels like having a young guy waiting around for you to keel over.

I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.

You want to stay even-keel. When you get too high, when you get too low, that's when things tend to go wrong.

In political activity, then, men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for anchorage, neither starting-place nor appointed destination. The enterprise is to keep afloat on an even keel.

There is no better ballast for keeping the mind steady on its keel, and saving it from all risk of crankiness, than business.

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

I think the bottom line is that if you get through a childhood like mine, it's not at all bad. Obviously, you come out a pretty tough turkey, and you have had all the inoculations you need to keep you on a level keel for the rest of your life. The sad part is, most of us don't come out.

I surf because it keeps my life at an even keel, without it I would tip into the oblivion.

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

Running helps me stay on an even keel and in an optimistic frame of mind.

I try to keep 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.

You try to stay as even-keel as possible; obviously, it's always more difficult when you're going through a tough season.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

Two things help me be a winner. One is I try to stay on an even keel. I don't get too high or too low. Two is I do a lot of visualization. I never see a bad pitch. I always see a good one.

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.

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

Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. They are supersensitive. They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, long before more robust types realize that any danger is there.

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

I hope I can always be counted on to get a hit or get a guy in-to be an even keel in the lineup.

Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

Thats what a ship is, you know. Its not a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. Thats what a ship needs. But what a ship is. What the Black Pearl really is . . . is freedom.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

I don't try to get players emotionally up for a game; it creates too many peaks and valleys... I strive for even keel; they will get up for the big games.

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.

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.

The winds were blowing from west to east, pushing Abby's boat toward the rocks as Abby struggled with the autopilots below. If Wild Eyes reached those islands, she wouldn't run aground, keel in the sand. She would be smashed into pieces.

How much we have to hydrate out here in this kind of heat and humidity. I think the most I have ever taken down in one day of fluids is five gallons - a gallon per match. If we didn't replace our fluids, we would probably keel over and die.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

I want to keel over on stage playing King Lear at age 99 or something like that.

It is said that if Noah's ark had to be built by a company; they would not have laid the keel yet; and it may be so. What is many men's business is nobody's business. The greatest things are accomplished by individual men.

I try to stay on an even keel. I get really fired up on occasion, but staying relaxed and under control bodes better for my game than getting out of control.

One must never lose perspective. You don't get lost in your success, and you don't get depressed about failure, and you keep it all in 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.

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.

I'm a very even keel guy.

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

Such is an actor's life. We must ride the waves of every film, barfing occasionally, yet maintain our dignity, even as the bulk of our Herculean efforts are keel-hauled before our very eyes.

The hardest part is keeping yourself even keel across the board. You have to keep a balance until you get to Sunday and understand what goes with the week.

If you're too high, it can hurt you. If you're too low, it can hurt you. I try to stay even-keel.