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
  • Humanity
  • Suffering

• 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

• It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.

  

  Dick Van Dyke
  • People
  • Up
  • Nature

• I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

  

  Anne Tyler
  • Night
  • Small
  • Sleep

• I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

  

  Robin Trower Procol Harum
  • Album
  • Tracks
  • Spoil

• China not only fights for her own independence, but also for the liberation of every oppressed nation. For us, the Atlantic Charter and President Roosevelt's proclamation of the Four Freedoms for all peoples are corner-stones of our fighting faith.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Faith
  • Fighting

• At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm.

  

  George Washington
  • Heart
  • Age
  • Wish

• 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