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Jean Kerr Quotes

Type: Playwright Quotes Category: American Playwright Quotes Date of Birth: July 10, 1923 Date of Death: January 5, 2003 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Jean Kerr Related Authors: Arthur Miller Beth Henley George Ade John Guare Elfriede Jelinek Jerome Lawrence August Wilson

A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table. Jean Kerr A man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself - like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks. Jean Kerr Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left. Jean Kerr Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? Jean Kerr Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living. Jean Kerr Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living. Jean Kerr Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Jean Kerr Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Jean Kerr I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people to go on. Jean Kerr I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. Jean Kerr I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. Jean Kerr I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas? Jean Kerr If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation. Jean Kerr Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. Jean Kerr 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. Jean Kerr Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it. Jean Kerr One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind. Jean Kerr 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. Jean Kerr The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. Jean Kerr The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old. Jean Kerr When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs. Jean Kerr 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. Jean Kerr 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. Jean Kerr 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. Jean Kerr

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