“When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now ever...” — Jane Pauley Quote

“When I grew up, there were common patterns to people's lives. Now everybody is just making it up as they go along.”

“I can cook; but not well. I figure I have six years until my children discover what their friends' mothers make for dinner.”

“I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire, like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen,' are distinctively like their hosts, so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.”

“When you're a birder, you have all sorts of reference books, and you know about migratory patterns and technical stuff. Most people just look out the window, and say 'is that a pigeon?'”

“But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.”

“The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name.”