Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
BARBARA WALTERSpolitics … 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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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