Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Barbara Walters
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American journalist Barbara Walters.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
I'm a wonderful editor. That's what I do best. I know exactly what I want. If I have to decide whether to wear the red dress or the blue dress or what should I have said, I am constantly changing my mind.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
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.
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.
Although I myself don't go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it's superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
Because there are so many shows on and because I've been so hands-on - I've had a piece on almost every single week - I don't know how to cut back on that. You really can't.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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.
If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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.
I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
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.
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.
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
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.
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
I didn't have a very religious family.
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.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
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.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Work harder than everybody. You're not going to get it by whining, and you're not going to get it by shouting, and you're not going to get it by quitting. You're going to get it by being there.
politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
Don't let the bastards get you down.
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.
I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don't fight the little fight... Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don't whine, and don't be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others - guests who didn't have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
A conversation isn't a competition.
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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