Barbara Quotes

A lot of people don't know what they want or they want much less than they deserve.

a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth.

If your day is full of little mean, dark thoughts, is it any wonder you feel crabby? Maybe it's because you let your mind run wild like a dog putting its nose into garbage everywhere.

I have seen women looking at jewelry ads with a misty eye and one hand resting on the heart, and I only know what they're feeling because that's how I read the seed catalogs in January.

Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off.

If you let your mind talk you out of things that aren't logical, you're going to have a very boring life. Because grace isn't logical. Love isn't logical. Miracles aren't logical.

Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the market, and buy right at the bottom. The truth of the matter is that nobody is good at it.

I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it's the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.

I know actors come around and they always talk like that, but I don't do publicity if I don't like the film.

A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience.

My mother was my first jealous lover.

Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job.' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.

I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.

When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.

My Turn is the distilled bathwater of Mrs. Reagan's life. It is for the most part sweetish, with a tart edge of rebuke, but disappointingly free of dirt or particulate matter of any kind.

Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.

Employers have gone away from the idea that an employee is a long-term asset to the company, someone to be nurtured and developed, to a new notion that they are disposable.

There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

For a long time I listened to other people to decide whether I was still Christian or not, and I would sort of vet myself by the traditional formulae.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I'd love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

I feel like Travis [Stevens] is just a Midas touch producer. Seemingly everything he touches turns to gold lately, so that was quite exciting looking at that prospect.

That's the really neat thing about Dan Quayle, as you must have realized from the first moment you looked into those lovely blue eyes: impeachment insurance.

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.

Life is too short to spend it being angry, bored, or dull.

The psychological trauma of losing a job can be as great as the trauma of a divorce. It creates a lot of anger and emotional hardship. People may become quite depressed.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

Jazz vision is a wordless conversation between musical notes and visual expressions.

For the millions of us who live glued to computer keyboards at work and TV monitors at home, food may be more than entertainment. It may be the only sensual experience left.

Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'

Upscale young men seem to go for the kind of woman who plays with a full deck of credit cards.

Figure out what past efforts amounted to nothing and label them your "not to do" list. Post the list where you'll see it.

Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production - only to produce a race of bed-wetters!

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

When you're in business, if you have some sort of gimmick it's a huge advantage.

By and large, people who enjoy teaching animals to roll over will find themselves happier with a dog.

We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

The only people who still read poetry are poets, and they mostly read their own.

Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

Innovation and creativity are the juiciest parts of running a business.

Life, after we'd had a few millennia to observe it, turned out to be dreadfully unfair, so we invented sports.

In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.

Very few people have no opinions about cats.

I never intended to be a run-of-the-mill person.

I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.

no job, no matter how lowly, is truly 'unskilled.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.