I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don't know well or like… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Most old people ... are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
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. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
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… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I was trying to do everything I possibly could,up until this morning, when I was betrayed, to protect her. We gave her time to… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image