Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener.… — 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 way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can't get out of it by themselves. So every now and then,… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and… — 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
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming… — 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