I was very, very eager to work. It's just the way I am.

- Phoebe Philo

I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.

- Yves Chauvin

I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.

- Young Buck

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

- William Safire

I'm not very eager to sit and look at my films all the time.

- Werner Herzog

The stalwart soul has the will to live and is eager for the race.

- Taylor Caldwell

Dating is different when you get older. You're not as trusting, or as eager to get back out there and expose yourself to someone.

- Toni Braxton

I was as eager a writer as I was a reader.

- Sherwood Smith

When I was growing up, I read Britney Spears' and Mariah Carey's biographies. I just wanted to see how they did it because I was so eager to get into the biz.

- Pixie Lott

If I'm not working on something, I'm eager to work on something because it's so gratifying.

- Chris Van Allsburg

If boomers were always looking to shock, millennials are eager to share.

- Nancy Gibbs

None are so eager to gain new experience as those who don't know how to make use of the old ones.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

A poem with grandly conceived and executed stanzas, such as one of Keats's odes, should be like an enfilade of rooms in a palace: one proceeds, with eager anticipation, from room to room.

- James Fenton

If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.

- John Templeton

Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.

- Gore Vidal

You want people to be eager for your book; the downside is when the people forget the series even exists.

- George R. R. Martin

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

- Edward Thorndike