Ker Conway Quotes

#1. The beauty of life is the bliss of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#2. William Armstrong is a great teacher. He speaks truthfullyabout the discipline required for learning, and about the pleasures oforder and system in acquiring knowledge. Any reader, of any age, will enjoythis book.

Jill Ker Conway

#3. Shyness displays itself differently in me. I think it's more an awkwardness.

Daniel Radcliffe

#4. I can't abide people who dislike dogs,

Helen Simonson

#5. The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

Agatha Christie

#6. I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Balthus

#7. Why is autobiography the most popular form of fiction for modern readers?

Jill Ker Conway

#8. An adult life...is a slowly emerging design, with shifting components, occasional dramatic disruptions, and fresh creative arrangements.

Jill Ker Conway

#9. Above all I needed to be made to think about what it meant that I was a woman, instead of acting unreflectingly as though I were a man, bound to live out the script of a man's life.

Jill Ker Conway

#10. I think it's a tribute to the artistic importance of hip-hop culture and what hip-hop has brought into music and fashion and jewelry that it is being adapted or imitated or is inspiring variations or new types of art or new types of music.

Simon De Pury

#11. I learned that time manages the most painful partings for us. One has only to set the date, buy the ticket, and let the earth, sun, and moon make their passages through the sky, until inexorable time carries us with it to the moment of parting.

Jill Ker Conway

#12. You never know what you'll want to write until it starts writing itself in your head.

Jill Ker Conway