Jean Kerr
Jean Kerr
Jean Kerrwas an Irish-American author and playwright born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and best known for her humorous bestseller, Please Don't Eat the Daisies, and the plays King of Hearts and Mary, Mary...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth10 July 1923
CountryUnited States of America
horse way toys
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.
lines twenties pleasure
I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually gave the recipient more pleasure.
people evil serious
While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree that the critic is an unnecessary evil.
christmas morning doors
Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries.
water ships accomplishing-something
Being on a ship is something like being pregnant. You can sit there and do absolutely nothing but stare at the water and have the nicest sense that you are accomplishing something.
baby party alive
To me having a party is something like having a baby. The fact that you got through the last one alive is not somehow sufficiently reassuring now.
I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.
shopping lasts stores
I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing.
girl real heart
Real men don't do pickup lines just to sweep off every girls' feet. They do and trust their own instincts knowing what the girls' wants and needs. Vying to win their hearts.
depressing mistake law
In the beginning, we made the usual mistake of looking at houses we could afford. I am working on a proposition, hereafter to be known as Kerr's law, which states in essence: All the houses you can afford to buy are depressing.
knowledge
I will read anything rather than work.
class people said
There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people.
civilized
I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time.
people irritated dear
People only call you 'my dear' when they are irritated with you.