Barbara Walters quotes

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers. (Barbara Walters)
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
Barbara Walters
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Barbara Walters
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
Barbara Walters
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
Barbara Walters
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
Barbara Walters
Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
Barbara Walters
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
Barbara Walters
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
Barbara Walters
Now here I was, half Jane Wyman, half Shirley Temple, and people began to stop me in the street and say, 'Don't worry, Barbara, it's all right, you won't lose your job.' It was really very touching. (Barbara Walters)
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
Barbara Walters
It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
Barbara Walters
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
Barbara Walters
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara Walters
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it's enormously comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.
Barbara Walters
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.
Barbara Walters
First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
Barbara Walters
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
Barbara Walters
But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
Barbara Walters
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk. (Barbara Walters)
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
Barbara Walters
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
Barbara Walters
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Barbara Walters
She made me laugh. I will miss her. Baba Wawa.
Barbara Walters