Jean Kerr Quotes

There may be people who try to imitate art when they get dressed and people who just get dressed to cover themselves up, but I guess that both send out messages and communicate their ideas and feelings through their looks.

I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to me in writing, probably because I believe people reveal themselves in how they deal with small details.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

I just want to be a normal person.

In my normal life I don't walk around with make-up. I'm just a mum at a dance school.

Instead of sounding pretentious, phony, or repetitive, I'd rather not speak.

When you talk about objects, one other thing automatically comes attached to that thing, and that is gestures: how we manipulate these objects, how we use these objects in everyday life. We use gestures not only to interact with these objects, but we also use them to interact with each other.

Always, with speeches, I feel like it's an opportunity to say something.

My words are my sword.

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

Sometimes I wonder how normal normal people are, and I wonder that most in the grocery store.

People find a way in which they can say something.

When a reserved person once begins to talk, nothing can stop him; and he does not want to have to listen, until he has quite finished his unfamiliar exertion.

How I wish I were able to say what I think.

Articulation is the tongue-tied's fighting.

When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.

One must talk. That's how it is. One must.

Only those who haven't got the wit to speak for themselves would ever want their clothes to do it for them.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.

We have the marvelous gift of making everything insignificant.

It is a simple fact that all of us use the techniques of acting to achieve whatever ends we seek.

When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'