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Jean Kerr quotes

American Playwright July 10, 1923 – January 5, 2003

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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. Jean Kerr
The thing that worries me is that I'm so different from other writers. Connecticut is just another state to me. And nature - well, nature is just nature. When I see a tree whose leafy mouth is pressed against the earth's sweet flowing breast, I think, 'Well, that's a nice-looking oak,' but it doesn't change my way of life. Now I'm not going to stand here and run down trees and flowers. Personally, I have three snake plants of my own, and in a tearoom I'm the first one to notice the... Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr quote: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing..."
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
Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertiliser, the writer and his wife sit on the fence - with a wonderful sense of "togetherness" - and listen to the magic symphony of the crickets. I can understand that. Around our house, we're pretty busy, and of course we're not the least bit integrated, but nevertheless my husband and I often sit together in the deepening twilight and listen to the sweet, gentle slosh-click, slosh-click of the dishwasher. He smiles and I... 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
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
Jean Kerr quote: "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being skin deep...."
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
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
Jean Kerr quote: "I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal..."
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. Jean Kerr
Dearer to me than the evening star. A Packard car. A Hershey bar. Or a bride in her rich adorning. Dearer than any of these by far. Is to lie in bed in the morning 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
Jean Kerr quote: "The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at..."
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr quote: "Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of..."
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
Jean Kerr quote: "the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no..."
the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old. Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr quote: "Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. Jean Kerr

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