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
eye wrinkles mouths
... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.
men years two
Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.
character play laughing
I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little.
mirrors done chaos
I know all about improvisation and the free-form that mirrors the chaos of our time, but I do like to feel that the playwright has done some work before I got there.
morning stars lying
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
women memorable health
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.
inspirational travel airplane
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.
inspirational good-morning average
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.
mistake women making-mistakes
I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.
women learning hypocrite
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite.
creating people talent
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.
loss leaving together
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.
grandmother thinking grandparent
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs.
children tests firsts
The only reason that they say, 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.