Top 100 Keane Quotes
#2. I was a big fan of Maradona growing up and of the current crop Ronaldo is good but Messi is the best I've ever seen. I don't dish out praise lightly but Messi deserves it. I look for weaknesses in his game and I can't find them.
Roy Keane
#3. A hundred different scenarios running through my head. How sick does that make me? A broken woman fantasising about how to kill another human being. What has he done to me?
Dawn A. Keane
#4. What then of death? Is not the taps of death but the first call to the reveille of eternal life?"8
Michael Keane
#5. As if goaded by a kind of frantic despair, I sketched these dirty, ragged little victims of the war with their bruised, lacerated minds and bodies, their matted hair and runny noses. Here my life as a painter began in earnest.
Walter Keane
#6. I can't understand why people in Scotland rave about Darren Fletcher.
Roy Keane
#7. Lovesick, bitter and hardened heart. Aching, waiting for life to start
Bil Keane
#8. I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.
Margaret Keane
#9. Time goes by at such a pace,it's funny how it's easy to forget her face
Bil Keane
#10. Patrick Vieira is 6 foot 4, and he starts having a go at Gary Neville, so I said 'come on have a go at me,' that's it.
Roy Keane
#11. I'm not saying it wouldn't have happened if I'd come to Anfield then (1997), but I always held out hope that I'd come back and this is a real dream come true for me.
Robbie Keane
#12. We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest.
Robbie Keane
#13. Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.
Margaret Keane
#14. I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.
Bil Keane
#15. I hate losing in training, I'm always arguing, having a go at everybody. I take my job very seriously.'
Roy Keane
#16. I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.
Roy Keane
#17. Unfortunately, at this moment in time, Robbie Keane can't hit a barn door for us.
Steve Staunton
#18. If you love Senegal so much, why don't you play for them?
Roy Keane
#19. People say I seem very negative about new music - well, if somebody asks me what I think of Keane, I'll tell 'em. I don't like 'em. I'll obviously take it a step too far and grossly insult the keyboard player's mam or summat, but I'm afraid that's just me.
Noel Gallagher
#20. Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.
Bil Keane
#21. A peaceful home is as sacred a place as any chapel or cathedral.
Bil Keane
#22. If you are drawing a blank, or are having a hard time drawing a certain thing, then it is because you have not studied it enough.
Glen Keane
#23. People are who they are by the way they react to things.
Glen Keane
#24. I didn't want people to know that I was an artist. I was ashamed. I thought artists were weird, crazy people, you know. So I always kind of hid the fact that I was an artist.
Margaret Keane
#26. Top players don't come much topper than Gerrard and Carragher
Robbie Keane
#27. I saw 'Sleeping Beauty' when I was, like, 6 years old at the Mercury Theatre. Then, when I came to Disney, I was in the company of these wonderful artists. People like Glen Keane, like Mark Henn, who were brilliant animators who could really bring these things to life.
John Musker
#28. Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind
Roy Keane
#29. There's a weird thing about me and characters with hair, from Ariel or Pocahontas to Tarzan with his dreadlocks and now Rapunzel ... it's like I'm trying to make up for some loss in my life, I don't know what that is.
Glen Keane
#30. Knowing the truth about what you believe and longing for the time before you knew it are not mutually exclusive states of being.
Erin Keane
#31. Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.
Glen Keane
#32. I find that you're drawn to certain stories, and there's something about fairytales that have deep roots. They connect really deeply to you, and those are the stories that I find myself drawn to. I love characters that believe the impossible is possible.
Glen Keane
#33. Roy Keane is Damien, the devil incarnate off the film The Omen. He's evil. Even in training.
Ryan Giggs
#34. On radio and television, magazines and the movies, you can't tell what you're going to get. When you look at the comic page, you can usually depend on something acceptable by the entire family.
Bil Keane
#35. I don't know how to animate on the computer, and I'm really grateful that I worked with a couple of other guys. We called it our triumvirate, John Kahrs and Clay Kaytis, who really understood computer animation but loved and embraced hand drawn, which is Disney's heritage.
Glen Keane
#36. I know it will take a little time to adapt to a different team and a different league.
Robbie Keane
#37. A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish.
Robbie Keane
#38. OF COURSE I'd like to be the ideal mother. But I'm too busy raising children.
Bil Keane
#39. Sometimes, you need different things in life, you need different challenges that will give you that little boost.
Robbie Keane
#40. It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!
Roy Keane
#41. Fail to prepare, prepare to fail.
Roy Keane
#42. I think players tend to get anxious if they've not really done things properly - like eating, resting or training. If you're fully prepared you've got nothing to worry about - it's just a game of football.
Roy Keane
#43. I have always wanted to come and play in MLS so it's the perfect combination for me and a dream come true.
Robbie Keane
#44. We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
Bil Keane
#45. When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety.
Bil Keane
#46. If it had come to a fight, Patrick [Vieira] could probably have killed me.
Roy Keane
#47. Believe in your character. Animate (or write) with sincerity.
Glen Keane
#48. I liked the Paul Ince and Roy Keane partnership Manchester United had. They would have been my team had I moved to England.
Xavi
#49. I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
John B. Keane
#50. Normally, what happens when we have a national leader who wants to do something in terms of military intervention, he tells the Pentagon, put together some options to accomplish goal.
Jack Keane
#51. I will be gutted if Roy does go because I would far rather he stayed at Old Trafford.
(on Roy Keane leaving Manchester United)
Rio Ferdinand
#52. Sometimes I get the feeling that I'm
stranded in the wrong time
where love is just a lyric in a children's rhyme
Bil Keane
#53. People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
Margaret Keane
#54. Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that.
Molly Keane
#55. In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
Jack Keane
#56. I can't even remember when the Seventies was.
Robbie Keane
#57. At Leeds I've tried to concentrate on my club form, but you get caught up in all the World Cup fever once you come back to Ireland and see all the Irish boys again.
Robbie Keane
#58. People say 'go with the flow' but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish.
Roy Keane
#59. In the beginning, I started doing portraits of children, and of course, children have large eyes. For some reason, they just started getting bigger and bigger. Then, when I started painting imaginary children rather than real ones, they became bigger still.
Margaret Keane
#60. For many years, I had allowed my second husband to take credit for my paintings. But one day, unable to continue the deception any longer, I left him and my home in California and moved to Hawaii.
Margaret Keane
#61. I like to make fun of Jeffy [of Family Circus] the most, because I know the grown-up Jeff Keane personally and enjoy ridiculing him.
Stephan Pastis
#62. In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction.
Kevin Kilbane
#63. The old, sad art colors are gone. Now I paint bright colors. I paint paintings which are happy, where children are laughing and playing with animals. I paint paradise on Earth. I still paint sadness sometimes, but there is sadness in the world, too.
Margaret Keane
#64. Only sisters can understand having someone in their life that can berate and terrorize them with love.
Hunter J. Keane
#65. Oh simple thing, where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on So tell me when you're gonna let me in I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
Bil Keane
#66. I was wrong about [Jack] Keane. He is the exception that proves the rule. I was certainly right about the fact that he is a member of the warrior class.
Carly Fiorina
#67. With all due respect, I have nothing to prove about my worth to anyone.
Robbie Keane
#68. Who's a good boy," Willa was saying to the dog in a light, silly voice that had the dog panting happily into her face.
"That's right," she cooed, "you are, aren't you? Aren't you a good boy?"
"Well I don't like to brag," Keane said, leaning against the doorjamb. "But I do have my moments.
Jill Shalvis
#69. I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.
Roy Keane
#70. Roy Keane's like a shark. He has those eyes. You don't know if he is going to buy you a drink or eat you.
Ian Holloway
#71. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
Bil Keane
#72. You don't have to change yourself at all to be a writer. It's come as you are.
Chris Keane
#73. United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.
Roy Keane
#74. When my friends were besotted with Jason Donovan, my heroes were Colm O'Rourke and Barney Rock
John B. Keane
#75. Any blockhead can arrange a sublet. All I ever wanted was to support myself on art.
Walter Keane
#76. Everybody wants to talk about sectarian conflicts of the war in Iraq, but the fact of the matter is, Sunnis have lived with Shias in harmony more in the confines of Iraq, in that land, than they have been in conflict. That's an historical fact.
Jack Keane
#77. Of course,it had to be just a rebound thing. There was no way I was interested in this arrogant, obnoxious jerk. No matter how hot he might be.
Jenna Black
#78. I've enjoyed my time in the game, whether it be managing Luton in the top flight, taking Spurs to Wembley or, as director of football, pinpointing players such as Jermain Defoe, Paul Robinson and Robbie Keane with real sell-on value.
David Pleat
#79. God created seaweed ... The seaweed made the world.
John B. Keane
#80. Today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.
Bil Keane
#81. I would like to think all our gifts and talents and abilities come from God.
Margaret Keane
#82. I don't think some of the people who come to Old Trafford can spell football, never mind understand it.
Roy Keane
#83. I never studied art, but taught myself to draw by imitating the New Yorker cartoonists of that day, instead of doing my homework.
Bil Keane
#84. Before the game there was all this stuff about anti-racism and anti-bullying. It would be a good idea to start wearing wristbands for anti-diving.
Roy Keane
#85. I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him.
Robbie Keane
#86. I am absolutely delighted at the prospect of joining a world famous club like Inter.
Robbie Keane
#87. They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.
Bil Keane
#88. I finally got to the point where I decided I don't care if it's good art or bad art - it's what I do. I enjoy doing it, and people like it.
Margaret Keane
#89. A lot has been written about my age and my injuries. A lot of people think I'm going to be 94. I'm actually 34 and I feel quite good. I'm sure the fans will judge me on what I do on the pitch, not what I say.
Roy Keane
#90. He's been like a fresh of breath air.
Roy Keane
#91. We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.
Robbie Keane
#92. Many of my cartoons are not a belly laugh. I go for nostalgia, the lump in the throat, the tear in the eye, the tug in the heart.
Bil Keane
#93. In Roslyn, Pennsylvania, we started our real-life family circus. They provided the inspiration for my cartoons. I provided the perspiration.
Bil Keane
#94. You look at Patrick Vieira and Emmanuel Petit at Arsenal or Roy Keane at Man United, and they are players that can do everything.
Jamie Redknapp
#95. I just hope he doesn't frighten the players 'cos they're frigtened enough right now.
Roy Keane
#96. For me, drawing is the greatest joy. Animation is never as good as when I'm sitting at that desk drawing. Even when it's up on the screen, it's never as wonderful as those moments when it's drawn, to me.
Glen Keane
#98. I don't know why I paint what I paint. I think it comes out - it's kind of my subconscious or something.
Margaret Keane
#99. I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me.
Bil Keane
#100. I didn't really start appreciating Picasso until a few years back. I didn't like him at all. But now I can see this world is crazy.
Margaret Keane
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