Top 236 Barbara Quotes & Sayings

Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me

My real name is Barbara Klein and I'm from Sacramento.

I have to say that after chemotherapy, Barbara Boxer just isn't that scary anymore.

The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me.

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

I think it's very much a matter between Barbara Walters and ABC.

The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly.

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine

It is sad that it was necessary that Santa Barbara should be the example that had to bring it to the attention of the American people. What is involved is the use of our resources of the sea and of the land in a more effective way and with more concern for preserving the beauty and the natural resources that are so important to any kind of society that we want for the future. The Santa Barbara incident has frankly touched the conscience of the American people.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

The day that changed my life was 3 July 1986, when I went to see American actress and singer Barbara Cook at London's Donmar Warehouse.

I went off to the University of California, Santa Barbara, on a boatload of loans, sights set on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.

I started on the beach in Santa Barbara with my father when I was six.

The Barbara Hepworth museum in St. Ives is fascinating. Her achievements were astonishing.

I love Santa Barbara and have always dreamed of someday having enough money to have a spot up there.

I usually save these answers [on the institution of marriage] for my Barbara Walters Special, but she didn't call so I've never been engaged, despite popular belief.

Tears? Are you going for a Barbara Walters moment?

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

You don't have to choose between June Cleaver or Barbara Walters. There are miles of space between them.

I am very concerned about Barbara Streisand using the 'H' word - 'honkey.' That's what I am concerned about. I am worried about Barbara.

I was lucky enough to make four pictures with Barbara. In the first I turned her in, in the second I killed her, in the third I left her for another woman, and in the fourth I pushed her over a waterfall. The one thing all these pictures had in common was that I fell in love with Barbara Stanwyck - and I did, too.

Santa Barbara is my hood. I mean, it's not much of a hood, but it is definitely like my hood. I claim Santa Barbara like I claim my family. I'm going to be married and buried there.

Well, she managed to - Barbara was capable of doing practically anything if she set her mind to it. In retrospect, I'm not surprised that Barbara managed to get collect calls through.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.

Barbara Feldon on 'Get Smart,' I wanted to be her.

My mother, Barbara, was a dancer from the age of 14 to 19. She toured with the comedian Max Wall in a dance group of six girls.

Yeah, I've always liked Barbara Crane's stuff.

Santa Barbara's gorgeous. It's just a perfect little getaway.

Barbara Ehrenreich is smart, provocative, funny, and sane in a world that needs more of all four.

I like to use the hyaluronic acid by Dr. Barbara Sturm.

The only appropriate response to the question, 'Can I be frank?' is, 'Yes, if I can be Barbara.

I was in sixth grade. I loved TV news. I acknowledge that I was also in awe of Barbara Walters interviewing Patrick Swayze and dancing with him.

Some of my earliest heroes were congresswomen like Shirley Chisholm and Barbara Jordan.

I split my time between Santa Barbara and Aspen. I live on a pretty fast horse.

Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

My wife, Barbara, is great. She arranges when I do work that I have a day off between performances.

Suddenly, I was in a category with Barbara Striesand, Olivia Newton John, Donna Summer, Carley Simon - it was kind of neat for me.

I lost my wife Barbara to cancer few years ago. I would give whatever time I have left to spend one more day with her.

Barbara Broccoli was a great friend of my late wife's and continues to be someone who is very gracious with me, my family, and our life.

I learn the most from trial and error. I learn about what I'd like to be able to do from people like Barbara Mason. Saying I want to sing like Barbara Mason and doing it, it's two very different scenarios.

I was one of the first people to almost actually vomit over hearing the use of the phrase "family values" and I pride myself on never having fallen for the idea that Barbara Bush was sweet and grandmotherly. I met Barbara Bush and, as I expected, she was a tank with eyes, not a nice person at all and why should that blow anybody away?

In a musically imperfect world, there is still perfection in the voice of Barbara Cook. For anyone eulogizing the historic scores of a long-lost era of Broadway greatness, not to worry. Somebody is still singing them with purity and passion. She is Barbara Cook, and she sings them for the angels to applaud.

Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag.

I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

I once asked Barbara Stanwyck the secret of acting. She said: 'Just be truthful - and if you can fake that, you've got it made'.

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

Barbara Parkins was so rude and petty all of the time. I just found her behavior to be so silly.

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

I don't want to be Oprah [Winfrey], I'm not trying to be Barbara Walters, but we can all do better.

I have been on the receiving end of many blessings in my life, few as great as having known George and Barbara Bush.

I don't think the Barbara Vines are mysteries in any sense. The Barbara Vine is much more slowly paced. It is a much more in-depth, searching sort of book; it doesn't necessarily have a murder in it.

I loved Barbara Stanwyck and Katharine Hepburn.

When I first read Barbara Tuchman's 'The Guns of August' in the autumn of 1963, it was as though history went from black and white to Technicolor.

I stand with the Santa Barbara News-Press. How about you?

I admire the Elsie Tanners and Barbara Windsors of the world: people who have crawled back from the abyss. I'm quite camp in that respect.