| Barbara Walters is known for being a good talker, so | | | | elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so |
| it's no wonder that Barbara Walters quotes are so | | | | fast, it takes energy just to stand still." |
| popular. Whether she's talking about value and | | | | 14. "A great many people think that polysyllables are a |
| self-worth or the philosophy of life, Barbara Walters | | | | sign of intelligence." |
| quotes always prove to be both enlightening and | | | | 15. "I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had |
| entertaining. Here are 25 Barbara Walters quotes in | | | | a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I |
| honor of her September 25th birthday. | | | | wasn't a beauty." |
| 1. "Success can make you go one of two ways. It can | | | | 16. "I was a personality before I became a person." |
| make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges, | | | | 17. "Trust your gut." |
| take away the insecurities, let the nice things come | | | | 18. "A woman can do anything. She can be traditionally |
| out." | | | | feminine and that's all right; she can work, she can stay |
| 2. "Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the | | | | at home; she can be aggressive; she can be passive; |
| mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the | | | | she can be any way she wants with a man. But |
| subject often reveals his truest self." | | | | whenever there are the kinds of choices there are |
| 3. "It's a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in | | | | today, unless you have some solid base, life can be |
| the position of the person who has been offended | | | | frightening." |
| than to be the unfortunate cause of it." | | | | 19. "A man cannot be made comfortable without his |
| 4. "Parents of young children should realize that few | | | | own approval." |
| people, and maybe no one, will find their children as | | | | 20. "The sports page records people's |
| enchanting as they do." | | | | accomplishments, the front page usually records |
| 5. "Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt." | | | | nothing, but man's failures." |
| 6. "The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's | | | | 21. "I find very often people like to confront rumors. It |
| also full of fourth-rate readers." | | | | depends on how much they trust you. And you have |
| 7. "All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan | | | | to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't." |
| Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach | | | | 22. "Most attractive males talk to most attractive |
| that heaven is a better place. At the end of the | | | | women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales |
| program, I say that heaven is a place where you are | | | | percentages in Des Moines." |
| happy. All of the religions have that in common." | | | | 23. "Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful |
| 8. "Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties." | | | | little creature to love, you can get a puppy." |
| 9. "I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the | | | | 24. "I'd had it. Right on the air, in front of 10 million |
| world from one good Washington dinner party than | | | | people, I said, 'Mr. Beatty, you are the most impossible |
| from all the background information NBC piles on my | | | | interview I have ever had...'" |
| desk." | | | | 25. "Show me someone who never gossips, and I will |
| 10. "I found it interesting that as people become more | | | | show you someone who is not interested in people." |
| technically oriented all over the world, at the same time | | | | Barbara Walters is many things -- wise, successful, |
| people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success | | | | famous, personable... The list goes on. That may be |
| of the Da Vinci Code - even though it was a great | | | | why so many people listen when Barbara talks. These |
| yawn - also showed people's interest in religion." | | | | 25 Barbara Walters quotes are perfect examples of |
| 11. "One may walk over the highest mountain one step | | | | the wisdom she so often speaks. |
| at a time." | | | | For more success quotes, check out the popular |
| 12. "To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a | | | | success quotes section at |
| while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely | | | | Famous-Quotes-And-Quotations.com, a website that |
| marvelous feeling." | | | | specializes in 'Top 10' lists of quotations in dozens of |
| 13. "New York is a galaxy of adventure at once | | | | categories. |