New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
BARBARA WALTERSNew York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
BARBARA WALTERSI think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERSLarge cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
BARBARA WALTERSFor a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERSLife 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.
BARBARA WALTERSWait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
BARBARA WALTERSIf 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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERSEvery 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.
BARBARA WALTERSSmall children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
BARBARA WALTERSA conversation isn’t a competition.
BARBARA WALTERSNew York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
BARBARA WALTERSI 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.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERSParents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
BARBARA WALTERSChildren are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
BARBARA WALTERS