Jean Kerr
31 quotes
Biography
"You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help."
"Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents."
"The most important thing about me is that I am a Catholic. It's a superstructure within which you can work, like a sonnet."
"You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count)."
"If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation."
"I will read anything rather than work."
"Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts."
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
"If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out."
"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house."
"I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it."
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?"
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"
"Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them."
"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure."
"Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
"I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure."
"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
"Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself-like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks."
"Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?"
"The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats."
"Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get home, but it doesn't always go with everything in the house."
"I'm tired of all the nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?"
"I don't want to see the uncut version of anything."