Jean Kerr Quotes

I love boats. I can be on a boat for days.

Some people wait constructively; they read or knit. I have watched some truly appalling pieces of needlework take form. Others - I am one of them - abandon all thought and purpose to an uneasy vegetative states.

That always happens. I start working while on vacation.

If I'm by the water, I'm happy.

I absolutely fell in love with being on the water and the peace and freedom that you get being on the water in a single boat.

I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water.

What being at leisure means is more easily felt than defined.

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

I can't wait to retire from acting and just sit around and get fat.

Perhaps I overemphasized the value of keeping busy.... I liked to imagine that I was incapable of doing nothing for afternoons myself, but maybe what disturbed me was that I was capable of it. I feared this was a knack one could get the hang of rather readily, and it was therefore now lurking in my house waiting for me to pick it up like a winter flu.

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.

The truth is that the only time I'm happy is when I'm doing absolutely nothing. I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feel like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing.

Idlers cannot even find time to be idle, or the industrious to be at leisure. We must always be doing or suffering

Work. Don't Think. Relax.

I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.

Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes

I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.

He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.

Any fool can be fussy and rid himself of energy all over the place, but a man has to have something in him before he can settle down to do nothing.

When you travel so much, the best and most relaxing thing is to just sit on the couch and not move.

My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.