Jean Kerr Quotes

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped the situation.

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• I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Done
  • Hair
  • Often

• We all, as engineers, doctors, have a big responsibility to bring smiles on the faces of suffering humanity.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Responsibility
  • Suffering
  • Humanity

• The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.

  

  Florence King
  • Life
  • Women
  • American

• I love recording music.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Music
  • I Love
  • Recording

• But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.

  

  Randy Newman
  • People
  • Want
  • Understand

• I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Never
  • Theory
  • Communist

• I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I do not want to be sheriff of Hillsborough County, seriously.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Want
  • Seriously
  • County

• My personal trainer is an ex-dancer so we do a lot of ballet and jazz.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Jazz
  • Ballet
  • Trainer

• I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Eye
  • Model
  • Cooking

• As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Like
  • Singing
  • Listen

• My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Life
  • Fashion
  • Life Is A

• My family life reads a bit like 'Little House on the Prairie.' I was big sister to Joan, Renee, and brother William, and we grew up in Dalkey, a little town 10 miles outside of Dublin. It was a secure, safe and happy childhood, which was meant to be a disadvantage when it comes to writing stories about family dramas.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Writing

• I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Copy
  • Secretary
  • Dictate

• I think if you're forthright and answer a lot of questions, sometimes you'll get people who won't let you answer the questions, and that makes for a difficult answer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • People
  • Think
  • Questions

• Only when the masses are reassured, can the country be at peace. Only when the country is at peace, can the leaders be relieved.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • Country
  • Peace

• I LOVED her! ay, I would have givenA death-bed certainty of heavenIf I had thought it could conferThe least of happiness on her!

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Death

• I shall keep it the manuscript by me until the end of May for purposes of revision, and of adding malicious foot-notes.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • May

• In Ethiopia, food is often looked at through a strong spiritual lens, stronger than anywhere else I know. It's the focal point of weddings, births and funerals and is a daily ceremony from the preparation of the meal and the washing of hands to the sharing of meals.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Strong
  • Food
  • Spiritual

• This is funny because I just had a job over the summer for VH1, a project I did called Strange Frequency where I got to play a Goth rock band singer.

  

  Charisma Carpenter
  • Job
  • Funny
  • Band

• Expectations are usually predicated on the idea that the everyday things that happen to ordinary people shouldn't happen to you. People hold the idea of being ordinary in absolute contempt, so when they face an illness, poverty, or any kind of catastrophe, they say, 'I can't believe this happened to me.' And who did you think it was going to happen to - the woman across the street?

  

  Caroline Myss
  • People
  • Believe
  • Thinking

• I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Wonder
  • Care
  • Exercise

• 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