Perky Quotes by Iris Apfel, Karen Marie Moning, Graham Norton, Barbara Ehrenreich, Sandy Duncan, Lisa Ling and many others.
When you’re older, no matter how good your humor is you don’t always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.
Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?
Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.
There’s more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.
I’m not pert and perky anymore – when you’re over 60, it’s ‘feisty.
My first job in TV was hosting this young teen magazine show, and all these high school teenagers showed up from all over Sacramento, California, and they chose four of us to host the show, two boys and two girls. And of the two girls, I was kind of the perky smart one and the other girl was the pretty one.
I called Clay from the SUV. “How’d it go at the paper?” he asked. “She called me perky.” “Ouch.
She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.
Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.
Koshari is a cozy pile of warm carbs – traditionally, cooked rice, lentils, macaroni, and chickpeas, all mixed together – smothered in perky tomato sauce and buried in fried shallots.
In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.
I don’t want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it’s quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you’re quite perky and already quite switched on.
I just listen to my Katy Perry. It’s just her mood toward her music. She’s always happy and perky. So, I mean, I like to be happy. Might as well listen to happy music.
I don’t want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it’s quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you’re quite perky and already quite switched on.
And while my mind is telling me I’m flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play “you show me your perky privates and I’ll show you mine.
‘Veerey Ki Wedding’ is a comedy of errors in more ways than one. It’s one of those basic, perky comedies. We’re not trying to give out a message or anything.
I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.
In a culture obsessed with happiness, Americans may not be allowing for acceptance that it’s OK to sometimes not be perky.
Most people would think if you’re the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids – or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.
If I hear the word ‘perky’ again, I’ll puke.