Jean Kerr Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 10, 1922 - January 5, 2003

Topics

TimeMomYouSoundRealBegin

I find the medicine worse than the malady.

John Fletcher

MedicineFindWorseThanMalady

I really do need the help of other people working with me.

John Sandford

PeopleMeHelpNeedWorkingReally

My parents weren't around much, but I assumed everybody's family was the same. I didn't know people had mummies and daddies who would give them milk and cookies after school. I just thought everybody lived on Central Park West and they had a nanny to take care of them.

Stephen Sondheim

FamilySchoolParentsPeopleThought

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

Robert T. Bakker

BridgesLandExtinctionSpeciesMany

The first time I heard 'Crazy Train,' I was crashed out in bed, definitely not wanting to get up and go to school, when my brother Vinnie came in and cranked it up.

Dimebag Darrell

TimeSchoolBrotherCrazyTrainGo

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.

Douglas Preston

GodSeaWritingBookThinkingFacts

I'm really very glad that I had skating to be my love and my escape. I think that it always gave me something that made me feel good, and it was music, and it was peaceful, and not a lot of the other stresses of life.

Dorothy Hamill

LifeLoveGoodMusicMeFeel Good

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

WorkJoyPrideFeelDoingSometimes

I discovered that bone china was a British invention, which had been developed by a pottery sited next to a slaughterhouse - 'bone' china, of course, contains bones, though we are inclined to forget that.

Christien Meindertsma

ForgetInventionNextChinaBones

If you back out of a convention... you can't dodge your obligation. Torture is still not acceptable.

Peter Maurer

YouBackOutTortureObligation

I think I learned a lot from a lot of experiences that I dealt with over my career.

Scottie Pippen

ThinkCareerOverExperiencesDealt

We need to know how we are feeling. Mindfully acknowledging our feelings serves as an 'emotional thermostat' that recalibrates our decision making. It's not that we can't be anxious, it's that we need to acknowledge to ourselves that we are.

Noreena Hertz

DecisionFeelingFeelingsKnowNeed

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