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.'

Barbara is definitely the heart and soul of this school.

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.

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.

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.

Jean Baudrillard

Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it may be, it is paradise. There is no other.

There is a significant shortage of minority graduate business school students choosing hospital and health care management as a career. At HCA, we face this issue every day as we recruit young talent into our executive development program. Recognizing this growing problem, Barbara and I wanted to make a personal commitment to increasing minority leadership in health care. Given that Fuqua has the premier MBA Health Sector Management program in the country, a scholarship program aimed at minority students seemed to us the best way to fulfill this commitment.

Boris Becker

Before, I wouldn't have sacrificed anything for tennis but when I met Barbara it was different. I would have sacrificed tennis for Barbara.

We've had so much fun, and we can't thank Santa Barbara enough for welcoming us.

Cathy Marie Buchanan

A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. And I certainly wouldn't turn down a tour of Johannes Vermeer's Delft led by Tracey Chevalier.

We wanted a place that had privacy, was comfortable for artists, that Barbara could have a studio, and I could have a studio. I wanted to get out of the renting situation. It's not a real profitable business, so I have to control overhead.

Wolfgang Puck and his wife, Barbara Lazaroff, have it all. There are endless people, who are either imitating him or trying to, but it's very hard to imitate somebody who is that good and that creative.

Wolfgang Puck and his wife, Barbara Lazaroff, have it all, ... There are endless people, who are either imitating him or trying to, but it's very hard to imitate somebody who is that good and that creative.

Geno Auriemma

You go to college to find out about yourself and I'll bet you nobody found out more about themselves in the four years at Connecticut than Barbara Turner. So you've got to be really happy for the kid.

Lindsey Harding

We were into the game. It was a great basketball game all-around and that was a big shot. You heard Barbara say she's a senior and she wanted it in her hands. She made a big play when it counted.

No body, no blood, no DNA evidence. Barbara Asher is here because of a theory.

Ross Mathews

Celebrities know I'm not looking for a 'gotcha' moment. I don't want to be Barbara Walters who you come to when you first check out of rehab. I want to be the person who brings a superfan from Iowa to meet you because we love you.

Now the Valley's become as much a dining destination as it is for resorts and golf. Barbara pulled the stars into alignment. She is the ultimate promoter of the Southwest, and she's one of the nicest people you'll ever meet. . . . She's hung the moon as far as I'm concerned.

Ruth Rendell

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

Chad Kimball

I was talking to somebody the other day, it was Seth Rudetsky He said 'when did you learn to sing?   He said please dont say in Church. Thats where I learned to sing.Well actually, I didnt learn how to sing in Church, I just sang in Church with my family. My family was quite musical. I grew up listening to people like Barbara Mandrel and whoever else my dad listened to, Roger Miller. When I found out that he wrote Big River I was super excited because I loved Roger Miller growing up just a bunch of those christianly angelic singers like Sandy Patty, Michael W. Smith, you know all those people. Thats where I got my influence.

She has been a great mentor, friend and teacher to a lot of people, myself included. It's very hard to see a fixture like Barbara Bates leave, but Towson is definitely getting an excellent asset.

Geno Auriemma

She finally realized that the more I do for others, the better it is for me, and in the end she ends up being better than she's ever been. I think you grow as a person when you start doing things for other people. So college was good for Barbara. The University of Connecticut was good for Barbara. And Barbara was good for the University of Connecticut.

Victoria Principal

I loved Barbara and am deeply saddened by her passing. Barbara Bel Geddes will be missed by many, but God is in for a very good time.

Rich Robinson

My favorite show is 'The View' with Barbara Walters, ... I tape it every day. I watch all the tapes. I follow Kathie Lee (Gifford) in all her stuff. She is unbelievable. She is on fire.

Virginia Madsen

I saw her when she was like 10-years-old in "The Barbara Mandrell Story," which is pretty bizarre since it was on in Canada the first week we were there... so strange. I knew her face. I kind of remembered her, but I didn't know anything about her family.

Caroline Sunshine

My very first role was the character of Barbara Winslow in the movie 'Marmaduke.' Up until that point, I had only done commercials. I had never done a guest star role or a series, and yet they cast me!

Howard Stern

That yenta Barbara Walters, she's nine-million years old.

Tess Gerritsen

'Lonesome Dove' by Larry McMurtry and 'The Poisonwood Bible' by Barbara Kingsolver have stuck with me throughout my life, and I think that says a lot about an author's writing.

I can still remember my mum (a voracious, if not discriminating, reader - I have seen everything from the sublime to the ridiculous by her bed, from Ian Rankin and Elmore Leonard to Barbara Cartland and James Patterson) taking me to get my library card when I was four and not yet at school.