(143 quotes found)
“''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.”
Lewis Carroll
“Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.”
John Sloan
“If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.”
John Templeton
“The important thing is to use today wisely and well, and face tomorrow eagerly and cheerfully and with the certainty that we shall be equal to what it brings.”
Channing Pollock
“We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from the announcement of a new product, what we have all along wanted without really knowing it.”
Daniel J. Boorstin
“Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.”
Charles M. de Talleyrand
“Creditors are so eager to get it over that they would have voted for the plan if UAL were offering a ham sandwich.”
Bill Rochelle
“She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments on fancy's course Are motives of more fancy; and in fine, her infinite cunning, with her modern grace Subdued me to her rate”
William Shakespeare
“Love necessitates eagerness / To shake / January's cold hand / Not avert the eye / And look what comes / To love / Before its making.”
Alamgir Hashmi
“We are eager to use the occultation technique to probe for atmospheres around large Kuiper belt objects.”
Jim Elliot
