Jean Kerr Famous Quotes
"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."
I feel about airplaines the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck-if you survive you start looking very carefully to the right and left.
"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."
"Life with Mary was like being in a telephone booth with an open umbrella-no matter which way you turned, you got it in the eye."
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation."
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas"
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.
"The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible."
Jean Kerr Quotations
"His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it."
Lois McMaster Bujold
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita."
J Robert Oppenheimer
The freedom fighters of Nicaragua ... are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance.
Ronald Reagan
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
Stephen William Hawking
"If you don't control your mind, someone else will."
John Allston
Ah the clock is always slow It is later than you think.
Robert Service
"When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap."
Cynthia Heimel
"Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail then you can let go when you want to."
Josh Billings
All sunshine makes a desert.
Arabic Proverb