Barbara Walters Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

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

  Barbara Walters

  Inspirational, Women, Acceptance

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Nice, Believe, Men

• Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.

  Barbara Walters

  New Year, Party, Shallow Person

  "How to Talk With Practically Anybody About Practically Anything". Book by Barbara Walters, 1970.

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

  Barbara Walters

  Atheist, Equal Pay, Sin City

• To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.

  Barbara Walters

  Jobs, Women, Feelings

• I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.

  Barbara Walters

  Spiritual, People, Interesting

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Education, Religious, Mean

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Men, Literature, Authority

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Christian, Religion, Literature

• All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.

  Barbara Walters

  Believe, Buddhism, Heaven

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Believe, Thinking, Live Your Life

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

  Barbara Walters

  Thinking, Literature, Poetic

• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.

  Barbara Walters

  Airplane, Clouds, Rainbow

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Church, Literature, Superstitions

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Party, Nbc, Dinner Guests

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Thinking, Voice, People

• 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.

  Barbara Walters

  Sex, Heaven, Literature

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