While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.
I've read Proust and Stendhal. That keeps you in your place.
The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.
Our public school system is our country's biggest and most inefficient monopoly, yet it keeps demanding more and more money.
A hotel is a place that keeps the manufacturers of 25-watt bulbs in business.
A sound body keeps a sound mind.
Rebellion is the only thing that keeps you alive!
Nobody keeps a cat. They condescend to live with you is all.
Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
There must be a cloud in my head, rain keeps falling from my eyes
Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.
I prefer theatre but TV keeps you well known.
What's the problem with 'never?' It keeps you from trying. It ensures that you will fail. End of story.
It is only the constant exertion and working of our sensitive, intellectual, moral, and physical machinery that keeps us from rusting, and so becoming useless.
Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair.
By being able to play different styles I can get more work. I also learn so much from each of those experiences. It keeps everything from getting stale.
A still tongue keeps a wise head.
I'm glad I am crazy, it keeps me trying. I despise trendies, I know they're lying.
no work of art is ever finished, nothing is ever static, no performance is for keeps.