Barbara Walters Quotes (66 Quotes)


    This is a very sad day for us but a very happy day. I know this is a wonderful new chapter for you.

    The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.


    First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.

    I think this is one of the most important pieces that I've ever done. I hope it will be inspirational and to some degree educational. I hate to say that because I don't want it to sound like Comparative Religion 101.



    The Buddhists feel that you are recreated as some thing, as an insect, or an animal, or a person, but that you're not in some beautiful shiny place.

    I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.

    I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.

    There was a steam engine running the mill, and they would blow it to call the workers at 830 a.m. and at 5 p.m. to tell them it was time to go home. You could hear the whistle all over town. The offices are still there, and the big sheds where they stored the lumber.

    Since then, every woman on morning programs has been a co-host, and more power to them,

    I found talking to the young failed suicide bomber the most unsettling and depressing - that there could be that much hatred and ignorance.

    The need to believe that there's a better, safer place like heaven is almost universal.

    I knew that it wasn't just luck and I wasn't just at the right place at the right time. I proved it to myself. It gave me the proof that I never had.

    No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.

    To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.

    What I feel more and more is how important it is to live your life in a better way, and not to worry about it. What happens will happen.

    We would miss Meredith terribly, but I would understand if she decided to pursue this new and challenging opportunity. 'The View' is a very strong franchise and if Meredith did decide to leave, 'The View' would, of course, continue.

    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.

    It might be somebody who doesn't like her politics or maybe somebody who's crazy or maybe somebody who wants the baby. We just don't know.



    We have been increasing patrols in the areas of the stations and just trying to be visible, ... If anybody gets the idea, we would be deployed rapidly behind them.

    Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.

    In the 1970s, though, Fonda became a controversial figure when she publicly opposed the Vietnam War. I love this book. I really do...I am so pleased to have Jane Fonda back on this program. I love this book. You know that.

    I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.

    If you could chop down a tree -- any tree at all -- what kind of tree would it be

    A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

    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 comforting to believe that you're going to see your loved ones.

    You think you had a hard time with Dick Cheney , wait until you meet 'The View'

    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.

    It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.


    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.

    I found Monica warm and intelligent and very open. I told her, 'You're very alive.' And she said, 'Maybe that was the appeal (to the president).'

    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.

    Chemistry is important and I think humor is important. We're looking for somebody who can do the interviews and also the hot topics at the beginning of the show.

    This gives her the opportunity to do both - to be in television, to not have to do everything. It also means that she can finish at noon and pick her kids up from school.

    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.

    The investigation will go on through the night and weekend, ... Monday's a holiday but not for law enforcement.

    If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

    His doctors agree that Michael will be able to continue working on 'Spin City,' future projects, and personal commitments for many years to come,

    It was my home away from home and dozens of my father's old showgirls and chorus girls came today to pay their respects to him, so it's a wonderful memorial to my dad.

    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.

    Well, it is a bit different arriving at 430 in the morning.

    Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.

    Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.

    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.

    We were concerned to hear that Ms. Carey would be unable to do the interview at this time, and we wish her well,

    to appear on a board which is certain to involve some controversy.


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