Jean Kerr Quotes
You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
Quotes to Explore
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.
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After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
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Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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Capital isn't scarce; vision is.
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I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm tired of making other people feel good about themselves.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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I write to please me, and I've been very lucky. It's like playing baseball. You just keep swinging, and eventually you get a hit.
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I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
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You may have a small network, but growing that network has become easier with the use of social tools. LinkedIn, Conspire, even Facebook and Twitter allow you to grab branches that may have previously seemed out of reach.
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Full frontal nudity is reserved for Adam and Eve!
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Words have power, and if you are going to use your words negatively, then that is exactly what is going to happen in your life.
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You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).
