Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr (July 10, 1923, Scranton, Pennsylvania - January 5, 2003, White Plains, New York) American author and playwright. Her best-known book was Please Don't Eat The Daisies, a humorous look at suburban life. The book was a national bestseller, later adapted for the screen as a vehicle for Doris Day and David Niven, and subsequently made into a situation comedy for television.
15 Quotes
If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.
— 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
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has ever found a way to drink for a living.
— Jean Kerr
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
— 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
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
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
— 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
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
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
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
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
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
— Jean Kerr
It was hard to communicate with you. You were always communicating with yourself. The line was busy.
— Jean Kerr