Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Walters

The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn't perfect at any age - drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter - but it is almost non-existent in old people.

Barbara Tuchman

Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced

Barbara Tuchman

For belligerent purposes, the 14th century, like the 20th, commanded a technology more sophisticated than the mental and moral capacity that guided its use.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are ... companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print.

Barbara Tuchman

The fact of being reported increases the apparent extent of a deplorable development by a factor of ten.

Barbara Tuchman

If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

Barbara Tuchman

The power to command frequently causes failure to think.

Barbara Tuchman

Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.

Barbara Tuchman

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Barbra Streisand

I don't think I'm tough in a so called tough way. I'm tough on myself.

Barbra Streisand

Marlon Brando. The finest actor who ever lived. He was my idol when I was 13. He's done enough work to last two lifetimes. Everything I do, I think: Can Brando play this with me?

Barbra Streisand

When they tried me out as a host on TV, I found that I just couldn't be that gregarious person. I was stranger than that.

Barbra Streisand

On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.

Barbra Streisand

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

Barbra Streisand

I don't like talking about myself and I don't like talking about the work.

Barbra Streisand

Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.

Barbra Streisand

I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

Barbra Streisand

I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.

Barbra Streisand

What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

Barbra Streisand

How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination.

Barbra Streisand

A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Barbra Streisand

You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.

Ayad Allawi

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

Ayad Akhtar

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

Avicenna

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Aya Cash

No one is trying to be bad for the sake of being bad - there's always a reason behind it.

Aya Cash

I really don't have a specific idea of where I want my career to go, I just have an idea of wanting to continue to work and work on things that I like and think are good.

Aya Cash

For years while I was working as a waitress, all I wanted to do was get on a TV show. You think, "This will solve all the problems. I'm making more than 400 dollars a week; I don't have to worry about money ever again," but it's just not true.

Aya Cash

I think that it's a myth that there's one job that makes your whole career, unless you're winning an Oscar. But even that doesn't work for some people.

Aya Cash

We live in a time where improv is king and people love improv, and I think there's a time and a place for that and people who are really good at structuring improv.

Aya Cash

There are problems everywhere, of course, but you can only see those certain problems when you reach a certain level. So I try to think of those problems as, "This is a sign that I'm having success, that I'm also having issues with this."

Aya Cash

I think it's very hard to go into the same business as your family when you're an artist.

Avicii

I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket.