Quotes of: Jane Keyword

Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.

Martha Beck

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Martha Beck

Most of my clients don't realize that the way they look and the way they think about their looks are two separate issues.

Martha Beck

To make an activity joyful, keep adding things until the activity as a whole becomes more appealing than repulsing.

Martha Beck

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

Mark Haddon

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

Marvin Harris

No amounts of stone and bone could yield the kinds of information that the paintings gave so freely.

Mary Leakey

And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own.

Margaret Mead

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though.

Roger Tory Peterson

Why any one place should forever hold enchantment for the reason you are born there is a mystery.

Robert Ripley

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

Nicholas A. Christakis

My God, I think about way back in the day when we were running around in Mary Janes and Doc Martens, that whole 90210-inspired look. I'm glad that's long gone.

Meghan Markle

Lizz Wright is my favourite singer. Her voice moves me and takes me to another place. She also grows her own food, and that inspires me.

Laura Mvula

Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.

John James Audubon

Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.

Yukihiro Matsumoto

I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.

Ann Beattie

Back when I was 8 or 9 and wanted to be a nun, I would often stop at church on my way home from school.

Ann Hood

My wife and I would be very comfortable having a baby at home or using one of the terrific nurse-midwives at the hospital.

Chris Bohjalian

To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a 'home' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.

Emily Post

I'm a writer and director. And the movie I've seen a million times is 'Coming Home,' directed by Hal Ashby and starring Jon Voight, Jane Fonda and Bruce Dern.

Jonathan Levine

When I was a child I wanted to be a vet. I'd come home with "lost" kittens and dogs. My mother would tell me to put them back.

Philippa Gregory