„Se riesci a mantenere la calma quando intorno a te tutti hanno perso la testa, può darsi che tu non abbia afferrato bene la situazione.“
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Frasi di Jean Kerr
2 2Jean Kerr
Data di nascita: 10. Luglio 1922
Data di morte: 5. Gennaio 2003
Altri nomi: Jean Kerrová
Jean Kerr , scrittrice e commediografa americana.
Frasi Jean Kerr
„I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want—an adorable pancreas?“
"Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, I Don't Want to Hear One Word Out of You"
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)
„Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speech by something outside himself—like, for instance, he can't find any clean socks.“
"How to Talk to a Man"
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)
„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.“
— Jean Kerr, libro Please Don't Eat the Daisies
"Aunt Jean's Marshmallow Fudge Diet"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
„Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent.“
In Finishing Touches (1973), Act III, Kerr borrows this line (changing "we" to "you") from Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook (1963), ch. 5
Misattributed
„If you can keep your head when all about are losing theirs, it's just possible that you haven't grasped the situation.“
— Jean Kerr, libro Please Don't Eat the Daisies
"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
„The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.“
— Jean Kerr, libro Please Don't Eat the Daisies
" Children Really are Not People http://books.google.com/books?id=TPRaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22The+average+healthy+well+adjusted+adult+gets+up+at+seven+thirty+in+the+morning+feeling+just+plain+terrible%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957 http://books.google.com/books?id=0QkfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22The+average+healthy+well+adjusted+adult+gets+up%22+%22at+seven+thirty+in+the+morning+feeling+just+plain+terrible%22&pg=PA50#v=onepage
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
„The real menace in dealing with a five-year-old is that in no time at all you begin to sound like a five-year-old.“
— Jean Kerr, libro Please Don't Eat the Daisies
"How to Get the Best of Your Children"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
„Children are different—mentally, physically, spiritually, quantitatively, qualitatively; and furthermore, they're all a little bit nuts.“
— Jean Kerr, libro Please Don't Eat the Daisies
" Children Really are Not People http://books.google.com/books?id=w0FnrZaKX7MC&q=%22Children+are+different+mentally+physically+spiritually+quantitatively+qualitatively+and+furthermore+they're+all+a+little+bit+nuts%22&pg=PA157#v=onepage," Please Don't Eat the Daisies, The Saturday Evening Post, 27 July 1957 http://books.google.com/books?id=0QkfAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Children+are+different+mentally+physically+spiritually+quantitatively+qualitatively+and+furthermore+they're+all+a+little+bit+nuts%22&pg=PA17#v=onepage
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
„You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three“
— Jean Kerr, libro Please Don't Eat the Daisies
parties don't count
"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
„Movie actors are just ordinary mixed-up people—with agents.“
Mary, Mary, Act II http://books.google.com/books?id=8YuwAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Movie+actors+are+just+ordinary+mixed-up+people+with+agents%22&pg=PA74#v=onepage (1961)
„Marrying a man is like buying something you've been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn't always go with everything else in the house.“
"The Ten Worst Things about a Man"
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)
„I will read anything rather than work.“
— Jean Kerr, libro Please Don't Eat the Daisies
"Introduction"
Please Don't Eat the Daisies (1957)
„I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.“
"I was a Sand Crab" http://books.google.com/books?id=teAQAAAAMAAJ&q=%22I+make+mistakes+I'll+be+the+second+to+admit+it%22&pg=PA17#v=onepage
The Snake Has All the Lines (1960)
