Barbara Walters Quotes

You may have heard the saying, 'When you're in love, smoke gets in your eyes.' Well when you're talking, smoke gets in your eyes and ears. Once you're on a roll, it's very easy to not notice that you've worn out your welcome.

... not talking about things she doesn't understand to people who do or about things she does to people who don't.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

All these people talking about morality should just take a walk downtown. They don't want to go downtown because instantly they see homeless people and they don't want to.

the person talking to you never looks directly at you, but rather around the room, searching for the answer to the universal cocktail party question, 'Who's here tonight?

Remember that the people you are talking to are a hundred times more interested in themselves and their wants and problems than they are in you and your problems.

My radar, after all these years of sanity, is still off when it comes to what people do or don't mean.

Old age by nature is rather talkative.

You have to learn that people are always listening.

Old people, with other old people, are not so old.

People always say 'They [teens] need a good talking to.' I've never agreed with that. A kid needs a good listening to.

Only people who suffer show the ravages of age.

Talk often, but never long; in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers. Pay your own reckoning, but do not treat the whole company; this being one of the few cases in which people do not care to be treated, every one being fully convinced that he has wherewithal to pay.

The one thing I cannot stand is when I do interviews, when I interview people, and I listen to the tapes and I hear myself talking and sort of stumble and stammer, or I hear the horrible sound of my own voice, or God forbid I see myself on video, there is that complete revulsion with seeing how I occur in the world.

You go into a room and you know where you're welcome; you know where you're unwelcome.Sometimes in a hostile situation you stick around because hostility itself is important.The people who are garrulous and wear their heart on their sleeve and tell you everything, that's one kind of person, but the fellow who's hiding behind a tree and hoping you don't see him is the fellow that you'd better find out why.

Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.

I like old people when they have aged well.

People who have experience and credentials, they should be talking about that [Donald Trump presenting on TV]. I know everybody cares about ratings, but come on. The whole world is watching.

[...] things most people do naturally are often inexplicably difficult for me.

When I was 6 I became the poster child for my hospital and would go to banquets and make speeches. I did not get stage fright and I actually enjoyed talking to people of all ages.

I'm more likely to not invite someone back for not talking. If someone talks a lot, I can usually shut them up and control them. But with people who don't talk, if they don't really want to talk, they probably shouldn't be on this show, and that's fine. They're talented people with things to say, but sometimes people say what they have to say through other means than arguing.

Our nonverbals govern how other people think and feel about us.

Sometimes I want to joke but my English isn't perfect. Sometimes people are wondering what I'm talking about.

A deaf and dumb person who sees two men in conversation - may nevertheless understand from the attitudes and gestures of the speakers, how well their discussion is getting along.

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.