Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
Don Marquis

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
Galen Rowell

The film kept me from working as a secretary. It was a real stroke of luck. A miracle.
Victoria Abril

I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom.
Heinrich Heine

I fed them every day. So it was a papa that kept food on the table for them. I did that. I did my part.
Joseph Jackson

But, when the work was finished, the Craftsman kept wishing that there were someone to ponder the plan of so great a work, to love its beauty, and to wonder at its vastness.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

I once asked the most fabulous couple I know, Madonna and Guy Ritchie, how they kept things fresh despite having been married for almost seven months. 'It's a job, Al,' Guy told me. 'We work at it every day.'
Al Franken

People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
Dick Dale

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
Clare Boothe Luce

The former ruling class kept the community of actors in ignorance by means of various lies.
Bela Lugosi

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary

I had mice that I kept as pets when I was very young, and I've always liked the way they look. Even rats. I'm not scared of them.
Catherine Deneuve

The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.
William Bligh

Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
William Bligh

How much a dunce that has been sent to roam, excels a dunce that has been kept at home.
William Cowper

For six years, I kept my five Olympic medals wrapped in a plastic bread bag beneath my bed.
Mary Lou Retton

I have been able to play a lot of guys and they have kept me working.
Donald Sutherland

I believe in God, because he is the only thing that kept me going. He's my best friend.
Jessica Hahn

I kept quiet for eight years. I did not want to hurt the church.
Jessica Hahn

I kept thinking, 'Somebody has to make a food show that is actually educational and entertaining at the same time... a show that got down to the 'why things happen.' Plus, I hated my job - I didn't think it was very worthwhile.
Alton Brown