Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Specter

For decades, Barbara Walters has been described as a broadcast pioneer - and with good reason. In 1974, Walters became the first female host of the 'Today' show. In 1976, she became the first woman to serve as a network-news anchor. In 1984, she moderated the first presidential debate between Walter Mondale and Ronald Reagan.

Ted Olson

Barbara would have insisted that I live my life and that I go on and do the best possible job I could as solicitor general of the United States.

Eric Roberts

Barbara talks about how the kids are having fun; we're all having fun, but deep down inside she and I are both going, 'Boy, there but for the grace of God could go any of us.'

Karen Meredith

Barbara is definitely the heart and soul of this school.

Don Leclair

Barbara has served Ford well in her role in Investor Relations. She always put the Company's interests first, and we wish her well in her future endeavors.

John Biggs

Barbara Fleischman's contributions in time and energy to this institution have been significant and selfless.

Marcia Gay Harden

Back in the days of Barbara Stanwyck and Bette Davis, beauty wasn't the be-all and end-all it is today.

Larry Hagman

Our Ewing family dining room scenes would take forever, and Patrick (Duffy) and I would invariably get into a food fight. Barbara would yell, 'Stop it! I can't stand it!' But she liked it, too.

Keith Wilbur

Santa Barbara is a very good team. They are currently ranked No. 10, and more than anything, we will expect them to be really physical. This will be a good opportunity for us to see if we learned and improved upon some things from playing Davis because it will probably be a similar type of game.

David Hockney

Loads of people, particularly artists, hate pretty pictures. Now I've never met anyone who didn't like a pretty face.

Adam Rita

We're interested, but he wants more than we want to pay, that's the bottom line. That's the beauty of the salary management system. You just stop when you run out of money.

William Shakespeare

Beauty within itself should not be wasted.

Martina McBride

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.

Marguerite Gardiner

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Marisa Miller

My first trimester I was so exhausted. I could sleep 10 hours, then wake up, look in the mirror and still have eyes like a hound dog! I felt like the life was sucked out of me, no matter how much sleep I got. It was obvious that my body was really busy doing something else and 'beauty sleep' didn't exist anymore!

Nigel Barker

I have a book out called 'The Beauty Equation' and it discusses how off track we have gone in considering beauty.

William Shakespeare

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Bertrand Russell

No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?

Bill Murray

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

Don Ameche

There will be no 'Mommie Dearest' in the lives of my children, and no books like the one the Crosby boy wrote about Bing, or Bette Davis's daughter has written. My children love me very much, and they are loved.

Vesta Williams

A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.

Art Linkletter

A finished product is one that has already seen its better days.

Lesley Nicol

I met Bette Midler, who I absolutely love.

Ben Horowitz

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup...

David Nicholls

He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

Nancy White

Bette Jane Wogen ... (has) earned the respect and thanks of the citizens of our county for her generous contributions to history, ... (She) sets an example for all to follow.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

That which we are, we are, and if we are ever to be any better, now is the time to begin.