I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure. — Jean Kerr Failure Copy Share Image
I was always the last woman on the last down elevator as the store was closing. — Jean Kerr Closing Copy Share Image
Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley. — Jean Kerr About Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure it's so civilized to be civilized all the time. — Jean Kerr Civilized Copy Share Image
Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent — Jean Kerr Hope Copy Share Image
I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say. — Jean Kerr Copy Share Image
I have noticed that in plays where the characters on stage laugh a great deal, the people out front laugh very little. — Jean Kerr Character Copy Share Image
Some enterprising youth should go from door to door on Christmas morning peddling batteries. — Jean Kerr Batteries Copy Share Image
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales', they don't necessary think of chairs. — Jean Kerr Chairs Copy Share Image
There is this to be said about having money. You get rejected by a higher class of people. — Jean Kerr Class Copy Share Image
I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all. — Jean Kerr Investigate Copy Share Image
An actor can remember his briefest notice well into senescence and long after he has forgotten his phone number and where he… — Jean Kerr Actors Copy Share Image
Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to… — Jean Kerr Bless Copy Share Image
If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all… — Jean Kerr Blur Copy Share Image
One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is the assumption on the part of the staff that… — Jean Kerr Assumption Copy Share Image
I think if you can write a play, or produce a play, the first step toward success [is] if people don't want… — Jean Kerr Actor Copy Share Image
“Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it… — Jean Kerr Buying Copy Share Image
Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself-like, for instance,… — Jean Kerr Communication Copy Share Image
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then… — Jean Kerr Divorce Copy Share Image
... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time… — Jean Kerr Emotion Copy Share Image
While in some quarters it is felt that the critic is just a necessary evil, most serious-minded, decent, talented theater people agree… — Jean Kerr Agree Copy Share Image
“The thing that worries me is that I'm so different from other writers. Connecticut is just another state to me. And nature… — Jean Kerr Nature Copy Share Image
It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this… — Jean Kerr Accidents Copy Share Image
Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic.… — Jean Kerr Able Copy Share Image
“Oftentimes, in the evening after they have finished spreading the fertiliser, the writer and his wife sit on the fence - with… — Jean Kerr Marriage Copy Share Image
Don't be silly. I'm a mature, intelligent woman. Of course I'm afraid of my mother. — Jean Kerr Afraid Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that learns by being hypocritical. He pretends to be polite and then, eventually, he becomes polite. — Jean Kerr Animal Copy Share Image
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me that they are wonderful things for other people… — Jean Kerr Airplane Copy Share Image
“the real menace in dealing with a 5-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a 5-year-old.” — Jean Kerr Humor Copy Share Image
I once truly believed that if I had to stand in line for twenty minutes to have a package gift-wrapped it actually… — Jean Kerr Gift Copy Share Image
When the grandmothers of today hear the word 'Chippendales,' they don't necessarily think of chairs. — Jean Kerr Chairs Copy Share Image
Oh, wouldn't it be wonderful if some manufacturer would make a toy as tough, as staunch, as hard to crack open as… — Jean Kerr Cracks Copy Share Image
You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't… — Jean Kerr Can-t-sleep Copy Share Image
I don't grasp things this early in the day. I mean, I hear voices, all right, but I can't pick out the… — Jean Kerr I can Copy Share Image