Kept falling in and out of it [sleep] like out of a boat or a tipping hammock. Votes: 3
Rose TremainKept his locker full of weed just to satisfy his smoking needs and his love of fire. Votes: 3
Todd RundgrenHe Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life. Votes: 3
Milan KunderaFirst I was decayed, I was putrefied. Kept thinking I could never live on, now that I had died... Votes: 3
Angelika RustMemory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved. Votes: 2
Thomas FullerBoxing has kept me off the streets, stops me smoking and drinking and gives me something to do. Votes: 2
Billy Joe SaundersLet us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky. Votes: 2
Arna BontempsThe visionless officialized fatuityThat once kept Europe safe for Perpetuity. Votes: 0
Siegfried SassoonSecrecy breeds incompetence because where there is failure, failure is kept secret. Votes: 0
Julian AssangeBribes are the glue that's kept teenagers and parents connected for generations Votes: 0
Gayle FormanAhimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept. Votes: 0
Swami VivekanandaI took individual photographs of Annie Liebovitz, I kept taking her picture. Votes: 0
Shirley KnightPhilosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics. Votes: 0
Stephen Hawking... inherited collective mind-patterns ... have kept humans in bondage to suffering for eons. Votes: 0
Eckhart TolleThe feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company. Votes: 0
Pope John XXIIIHis honour rooted in dishonour stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Votes: 0
Alfred Lord TennysonThe habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense. Votes: 0
Charles DickensBad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. Votes: 0
Jacques BarzunI'm all in favour of free expression provided it's kept rigidly under control. Votes: 0
Alan BennettShe believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. Votes: 0
Jean-Paul SartreBradford Dillman sounded like a distinguished, phony theatrical name, so I kept it. Votes: 0
Bradford DillmanEmotions of the sould should be watched, regulary examined, and kept well balanced. Votes: 0
Roger N. WalshMovie stars are supposed to be healthy. They're kept happy and nutritionally together. Votes: 0
Courtney LoveNobody's ever kept their sitcom character going after the show's off the air. Votes: 0
Megan MullallyI didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year. Votes: 0
Mose AllisonWhat a fine persecutionto be kept intrigued without ever quite being enlightened. Votes: 0
Tom StoppardBe strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar. Votes: 0
ConfuciusWhen I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff. Votes: 0
Cassidy GiffordThe exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinBeauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave. Votes: 0
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheGreat abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin. Votes: 0
Desiderius ErasmusGrains of error planted innocently in a well-kept greenhouse can become giant poisonous trees. Votes: 0
Thomas MertonSchool district policies and practices have not kept pace with student and teacher needs. Votes: 0
Eli BroadGordon Brown promised to abolish boom and bust. He has kept half his promise. Votes: 0
William HagueI was always a good housekeeper. Whenever I divorced I always kept the house. Votes: 0
Zsa Zsa GaborThe best kept secret in the investing world: Almost nothing turns out as expected. Votes: 0
Harry BrowneFighting's given me confidence but it's also broken me down and kept me humble. Votes: 0
Gina CaranoMen of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law. Votes: 0
John MiltonTalk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy. Votes: 0
E. L. KonigsburgSecrets die when kept or revealed. They live by being faintly and uncertainly repeated. Votes: 0
Mason CooleyStory is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest. Votes: 0
Stephen KingWho kept the faith and fought the fight; The glory theirs, the duty ours. Votes: 0
Wallace Bruce Matthews CarruthersFlowers often grow more beautifully on dung-hills than in gardens that look beautifully kept. Votes: 0
Saint Francis de SalesI've never really had much of a career plan, and interesting opportunities kept cropping up. Votes: 0
Nicholas SternWhen anyone gives a promise, then such should be kept, and so under any circumstance. Votes: 0
Billy MeierI had phenomenal parents. They kept me very grounded, and I lived a normal life. Votes: 0
Zachery Ty BryanBias and prejudice are attitudes to be kept in hand, not attitudes to be avoided. Votes: 0
Charles CurtisAlong the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. Votes: 0
Thomas GrayYou remembered, he said quietly.Lowering the bow, Scarlet kept her eyes on himI remembered. Votes: 0
Chelsea FineAll of these people kept on being professional musicians and composers in the strictest sense. Votes: 0
James TenneyThe Emmy should be an ensemble award, too. I kept howling at everyone else's performances. Votes: 0
Jeffrey TamborOur impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw. Votes: 0
George EliotMy soul-bird loves my body-cage Only when it is kept fit, Pure and absolutely immaculate. Votes: 0
Sri ChinmoyFaith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. Votes: 0
Joseph AddisonIt was just that we had this phenomenal honeymoon relationship that just kept on going. Votes: 0
James LevineI've kept voluminous diaries since I was eighteen, and do a lot of experimental writing. Votes: 0
Mark Alan StamatyI've always been more visual-based. I've kept my musical tendencies kind of in the closet. Votes: 0
Grant EvansNeglecting to broaden their view has kept some people doing one thing all their lives. Votes: 0
Napoleon HillThe forces by which the workers are kept in subjugation must be retaliated by force. Votes: 0
Louis LinggIt is as bad as bad can be: it is ill-fed, ill-killed, ill-kept, and ill-drest. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonAs long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiI keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control. Votes: 0
Theodore RooseveltIf I kept my mouth shut, because I can make millions, that isn't doing nothing. Votes: 0
Muhammad AliWhen people tell me I've kept them up all night, I feel like I've succeeded. Votes: 0
Sidney SheldonAnd all the way, to guide their chime, With falling oars they kept their time. Votes: 0
Andrew MarvellThe great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves. Votes: 0
Irwin ShawThe best-kept secret about Don Johnson is the fact that he is a terrific actor. Votes: 0
Michael MannOne's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations. Votes: 0
Jane AddamsAll registers which, it is acknowledged, ought to be kept secret, ought certainly never to exist. Votes: 0
Adam SmithI kept telling myself this word, process. Focus on my process, don't care about the result. Votes: 0
Rory McIlroyThere have always been huge musicians and poets in Uruguay, but Uruguay is a well-kept secret. Votes: 0
Steven SaterI've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me. Votes: 0
Anthony JoshuaMother always said she was a size 7 woman she kept wrapped in fat to prevent bruising. Votes: 0
Haven KimmelThere are downsides to every technology. Fire kept us warm, but also burned down our villages. Votes: 0
Ray KurzweilEvery law is a contract between the king and the people and therefore to be kept. Votes: 0
John SeldenI kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine. Votes: 0
Charles BukowskiNext time!" In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come? Votes: 0
Helen Hunt JacksonDreams have their place in managerial activity, but they need to be kept severely under control. Votes: 0
Arnold WeinstockThe words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity. Votes: 0
George OrwellThe secret must be kept from all non-people. The mystery must be hidden from all idiots. Votes: 0
Omar KhayyamShe kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. Votes: 0
Barbara KingsolverThe Christian who keeps their heart diligently in little things shall be kept from great falls. Votes: 0
J. C. RyleThe first lover is kept a long while, when no offer is made of a second. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldI got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying. Votes: 0
Anita DiamentLord, it's one kind favor I'll ask of you. See that my grave is kept clean. Votes: 0
Blind Lemon JeffersonThe line between art and life should be kept as fluid, and perhaps indistinct, as possible. Votes: 0
Allan KaprowThe cross is a precious treasure to be kept secret, lest we be robbed of it. Votes: 0
Margaret Mary AlacoqueEvil courses can yield pleasure no longer than while thought and reflection can be kept off. Votes: 0
Samuel RichardsonThe former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies. Votes: 0
Bela LugosiAt least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated. Votes: 0
Scott WesterfeldThe town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king. Votes: 0
Stephen KingThe sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Votes: 0
Herman MelvilleShe kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die. Votes: 0
Mark TwainThe rich kept you waiting so you could feel free to admire all that they had. Votes: 0
Michael ConnellyHuman society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts Votes: 0
Seneca the YoungerIt was a black and white only computer at the time, but it kept me fascinated. Votes: 0
Buffy Sainte-MarieThe most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction Votes: 0
Freya StarkMy parents sent me to Montreal because I kept getting kicked out of school in France. Votes: 0
Emmanuelle BeartThat's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.' Votes: 0
Brownie McGheeMarijuana should be licensed and kept out of the hands of teenagers. It's too good for them. Votes: 0
Pat PaulsenContemporary societies have lost the sense of the feast but have kept the obscure drive for it. Votes: 0
Umberto EcoThose who prize freedom only for the material benefits it offers have never kept it for long. Votes: 0
Alexis de TocquevilleMortal birth is a boon to which only those spirits who kept their first estate are eligible. Votes: 0
James E. TalmageHad we kept the oil, you wouldn't have ISIS, because they fuel their growth with the oil. Votes: 0
Donald TrumpEducation which is not modern share the fate of all organic things which are kept too long. Votes: 0
Alfred North WhiteheadNature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught. Votes: 0
Claude MonetI think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals. Votes: 0
Emma CaulfieldShe got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettIt's funny... musical theater is what paid my rent and kept me going for the longest time. Votes: 0
Bryan BattMany men can no more be kept straight by spiritual motives than we can live without policemen. Votes: 0
Lord ActonI have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people. Votes: 0
Alice MunroFive minutes after we die, we'll know exactly how much we should have given rather than kept. Votes: 0
Randy AlcornAll I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever. Votes: 0
F. Scott FitzgeraldYou are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed. Votes: 0
Mark BattersonI once winked at a Cyclops, and then immediately felt awkward as she kept blinking at me. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzI always said it kept me alive - photography - because it did. It was my catharsis. Votes: 0
Bruce GildenI had to close the door on our friendship, because he kept climbing in through my window. Votes: 0
Jarod KintzEver since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. Votes: 0
Firoozeh DumasI kept believing that, if I got my innings in, it would come. I just kept believing. Votes: 0
Cole HamelsFor once you must try not to shirk the facts: mankind is kept alive by bestial acts. Votes: 0
Bertolt BrechtOnly the small secrets need to be protected. The large ones are kept secret by public incredulity. Votes: 0
Marshall McLuhanI kept on writing and illustrating, for this is what I did well because I loved it. Votes: 0
Jean Craighead GeorgeMen will bear many things from a kept mistress, which they would not bear from a wife. Votes: 0
Samuel RichardsonFrom the time we're born until we die, we're kept busy with artificial stuff that isn't important. Votes: 0
Tom FordOur modern society is engaged in polishing and decorating the cage in which man is kept imprisoned. Votes: 0
NirmalanandaThose who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords. Votes: 0
Benjamin FranklinOver the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were. Votes: 0
Tara LipinskiSome fellow from the Third World kept hammering for prizes for a Communist film which was rotten. Votes: 0
Patricia HighsmithMy mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her. Votes: 0
James Weldon JohnsonNext time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come? Votes: 0
Helen Hunt JacksonIf there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something. Votes: 0
Federico FelliniHere you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed. Votes: 0
Ronald ReaganHe always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back. Votes: 0
Sarah DessenWe are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? Votes: 0
Samuel BeckettI'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past. Votes: 0
Diane KeatonDivorce is the key that opens the strongbox where the bonds of matrimony are kept under wedlock. Votes: 0
Evan EsarThe heart, like the mind, has a memory. And in it are kept the most precious keepsakes. Votes: 0
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowEv'n them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers worshipp'd stocks and stones. Votes: 0
John MiltonThe whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret - that's really distasteful to me. Votes: 0
Dan FarmerIt beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. Votes: 0
John BunyanIf hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves. Votes: 0
Lane KirklandJesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope. Votes: 0
Pope FrancisI was really obsessed with age. I kept saying it was a record about trying to age gracefully. Votes: 0
Craig FinnSilicon Bayou - aka Lafayette, LA - is the best kept secret reservoir of innovation mojo in America Votes: 0
Todd ParkThe bow kept taut will quickly break, kept loosely strung, it will serve you when you need it. Votes: 0
PhaedrusBut he kept finding new pockets of shallow inside himself. He kept finding new ways to betray her. Votes: 0
Rainbow RowellIt is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered. Votes: 0
PlutarchMarriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another. Votes: 0
John PierrakosPassion kept one fully in the present, so that time became a series of mutually exclusive 'nows.' Votes: 0
Sue HalpernPick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently. Votes: 0
Milan KunderaI kept it for myself like a keepsake, as if sharing the memory might lead to its dissipation. Votes: 0
John GreenPoetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly. Votes: 0
Carl SandburgIt is in all our interests that the arteries of global trade are kept free, open and running. Votes: 0
Philip HammondOne other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969. Votes: 0
Kenneth G. WilsonI never kept up with the fashions. I believed in wearing what I thought looked good on me. Votes: 0
Bettie PageI kept buying bucket hats. Next thing I knew, I felt like I didn't look right without one. Votes: 0
Schoolboy QI kept dreaming of a world I thought I'd never see, and then....one day....I got in! Votes: 0
Jeff BridgesI didn't trot my pain out to show around. I kept it better hidden than anyone. I did. Votes: 0
Sarah DessenFame then was cheap, and the first comer sped; And they have kept it since by being dead. Votes: 0
John DrydenI knew that if I kept the pressure on and didn't do anything stupid I would probably win. Votes: 0
Jack NicklausThe film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle. Votes: 0
Victoria AbrilWho was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel. Votes: 0
Donna Woolfolk CrossThere is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it Votes: 0
Andrew CarnegieI had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house. Votes: 0
Beverly ClearyIt kept him alive, he was certain; even more, it kept his darkest of his demons at bay. Votes: 0
Tina St. JohnLife must be kept up at a great rate in order to absorb any considerable amount of learning. Votes: 0
Robert FrostI believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend. Votes: 0
Jessica HahnI've always kept my body in shape and I will continue to always keep my body in shape. Votes: 0
Dara TorresLove is found in the things we've given up, more than in the things that we have kept. Votes: 0
Rich MullinsI've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved. Votes: 0
Daniel PennacThe weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. Votes: 0
Eric HofferGo to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine.. Votes: 0
Maggie OsborneI met rich men and they became my boyfriends. When I was a kept woman'it was a relationship. Votes: 0
Kola BoofWe are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God. Votes: 0
Julian of NorwichI was lucky enough to have a father who said, 'Don't quit.' So I just kept going. Votes: 0
Mariska HargitayFor six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed. Votes: 0
Mary Lou RettonThe doctor's wife ate two apples a day, just to be safe. But her husband kept coming home. Votes: 0
Joseph Gordon-LevittWe are kept from our goal, not by obstacles, but by a clear path to a lesser goal. Votes: 0
Robert BreaultI used to pride myself on the fact that I kept a house running and never burdened anybody. Votes: 0
Michael LearnedWhile I learned, I hid out largely in the gay community, and overall it kept me very safe. Votes: 0
Rose McGowanWhen I'm finished playing, I want people to say, 'He handled this well, he kept his cool.' Votes: 0
Kobe BryantYou could have all the crazy thoughts you wanted, as long as you smiled and kept them to yourself. Votes: 0
Mara PurnhagenIf you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself. Votes: 0
Terry PratchettHonesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. Votes: 0
Don MarquisIf you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself." Votes: 0
Terry PratchettI don't watch a lot of the games on Sunday. But I always kept an eye on the 49ers. Votes: 0
Joe MontanaAnd eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me. Votes: 0
Larry DavidI'm tired of the lies and the cheating, and the broken promises that were never meant to be kept. Votes: 0
Sidney SheldonI held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing. Votes: 0
Thomas PerryWhat I spent, is gone; what I kept, I lost; but what I gave away will be mine forever. Votes: 0
Ethel Percy AndrusI kept waiting for that loneliness and nervousness to make me want to go back. But it never did. Votes: 0
John GreenHow much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home. Votes: 0
William CowperI fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Votes: 0
Heinrich HeineI just like to sit and admire my garden; it's so well kept by my gardener and my girlfriend. Votes: 0
Anton du BekeI have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary. Votes: 0
Louise BourgeoisAll this while I kept thinking where did I go wrong, all this while he wasn't mine to lose. Votes: 0
Pushpa RanaOnce I guessed right, And I got credit by't; Thrice I guessed wrong, And I kept my credit on. Votes: 0
Robert Louis StevensonI spent money, I slept with women around the league, but I always kept my mind on the game. Votes: 0
Dennis RodmanSports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff. Votes: 0
Michael VickShame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. Votes: 0
Emile M. CioranI had a dream about you last night.. You kept screaming at Ted Danson to pour you a drink. Votes: 0
Amy SummersIt was one of the warm nights at the end of summer that makes promises that won't be kept. Votes: 0
Cinda Williams ChimaWhen I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books. Votes: 0
Elizabeth MoonI fluffed off the guy who kept requesting tunes all night, then found out he was the King's son. Votes: 0
Duke EllingtonOne Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that. Votes: 0
Mo RoccaI am not very good at keeping secrets at all! If you want your secret kept do not tell me! Votes: 0
Miley CyrusIt was a lifetime occupation that kept us too busy to stop and ask if we were happy or not Votes: 0
Ossie DavisWhen you fail to tell the truth, you are kept bound to the past in ways that devastate your soul. Votes: 0
Debbie FordMyth must be kept alive. The people who can keep it alive are the artists of one kind or another. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellWhy buy repeater carbines and nuclear armament - if this is kept at home a child can play with it Votes: 0
Jean ChretienMy parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it. Votes: 0
Jason MrazI dyed my hair for photo tests... I kept it because when am I ever going to be blond again? Votes: 0
Ben AffleckKeep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years. Votes: 0
Dhani HarrisonThey kept me in a cage for too long because now every room I am standing in is just another cell. Votes: 0
Raegan ButcherI don't try to just be a blues singer - I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going. Votes: 0
B. B. KingOur minds can be kept free of anxiety as we dump the load of our cares on the Lord in prayer. Votes: 0
Charles R. SwindollHere's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick. Votes: 0
Benjamin DisraeliIn many cultures, women are sometimes literally kept from learning to read or from going to school.
Alice MattisonBruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.
Christina AguileraThere wasn't enough gratitude in the world for a server who kept drinks coming at a time like this.
Jennifer CrusieI have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.
Tony HarrisonWe've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
Brit HumeI have always kept notebooks and I go back to them over and over. They are my compost pile of ideas.
Louise ErdrichI was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.
Nancy SinatraI kept starting 'Anansi Boys' as a movie and stopping, and eventually wrote the novel and was happy.
Neil GaimanWhat a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!
Roald DahlThe reason so many promises are not kept is the same as the reason they are made in the first place.
Robert Grudin