The truth is, it happened...just like she told all those people.
BARBARA WHALEY This type of crime doesn't happen in front of eyewitnesses. This type of crime happens in secret.
BARBARA WHALEY At 13, she's still a child. She comes into a courtroom of strangers and tells the details of her abu...
BARBARA WHALEY We've been working on it for years. What we have in place is a very good base. It's just a matter of...
CECIL WHALEY People were just not watching for tornado-type activity, and it caught a lot of people off-guard. We...
CECIL WHALEY People were not prepared for it because it's not the type of storm we get this time of year; it's us...
CECIL WHALEY The tractor-trailers have jackknifed and there is no way to get around.
CECIL WHALEY At Walsh, ... it was almost like, 'Let Rob post up and give him the ball.'
ROBERT WHALEY We just didn't have the same approach in Game 2. The game was grinding to a halt and we just could n...
NICK WHALEY We didn't hit. We had a couple of situations with guys on base where we didn't get hits. We have to ...
NICK WHALEY We just have a really wonderful bunch of people. Anytime we mention somebody needs something, they j...
DEE WHALEY The first year, we had about 600 cars go through.
DEE WHALEY It's really been a blessing when Bob and Debbie came. It really took a load off us.
DEE WHALEY We were going to retire to Louisiana, but my brother died and then my sister-in-law died, and we los...
DEE WHALEY It's a complete circle so you can't get lost. That's why I like to run there. It's a really soft tra...
MIKE WHALEY We definitely lost some leadership. That was a great group of guys and they'll be hard to replace. B...
NICK WHALEY Not only had my brother disappeared, but--and bear with me here--a part of my very being had gone wi...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I was thrilled when this year's National Book Award for Young People's Literature went to Ne...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Approaching my second novel was, admittedly, a bit of a struggle. But having an amazing team at Athe...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I love meeting readers and booksellers and am beyond overwhelmed and gratified at the reception. Eac...
JOHN COREY WHALEY As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter wher...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Dr. Webb says that life is so full of complications and confusion that humans oftentimes find it har...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I did some research on cryonics and cryogenics, but I kept it to a minimum because I didn't want...
JOHN COREY WHALEY But at home, that same day he'd jumped into the fountain, he'd gotten so anxious, pacing around the ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY You think too much," Lucas said to me on the banks of the White River the next day.
"I think to...
JOHN COREY WHALEY We all get lots of people. And maybe we don’t always get to have them the exact way we want them, ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Your mind has a way of not letting you forget things you wish you could. Especially with people. Lik...
JOHN COREY WHALEY But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I often found myself in situations where I had, without thinking, said too much to too many with too...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I'm beyond thrilled to be working with Faber, whose literary history is second to none. And I...
JOHN COREY WHALEY it was like looking at the sun and not going blind," Rameel said of his first sight of Isadora.
JOHN COREY WHALEY Not only had my brother disappeared, but-and bear with me here-a part of my very being had gone with...
JOHN COREY WHALEY He tried to help the world, but the world wouldn't let him.
JOHN COREY WHALEY I guess the most interesting thing about Gabriel was that he didn't seem to care at all what people ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY The thing to know about my brother was that even though he was fifteen, he looked to be about the sa...
JOHN COREY WHALEY The Quit Man cometh, his minion at his heels.
JOHN COREY WHALEY I jotted down Oslo After Death. This would be a great title for a book, I thought. That is what I do...
JOHN COREY WHALEY It was easier for me to hate everyone in town than hate myself for being afraid I'd be just like the...
JOHN COREY WHALEY If you had to pick between living on the East Coast or the West Coast, which would you choose?" I ne...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favor...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Cullen?"
"Hey, Mom."
"Can you do me a favor?" she asked in that way that implied that sayi...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I actually didn't mind too much that Gabriel had spent the past four nights in my room. He was relat...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Fulton Dumas, do you know where Gabriel Witter is?"
"No," he said, his expression changing sud...
JOHN COREY WHALEY People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.
JOHN COREY WHALEY We let them help because they needed it, not us. We didn't let them help us because we needed it, we...
JOHN COREY WHALEY A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future
JOHN COREY WHALEY I call it the Pretty Paradox. Pretty girls always want guys who treat them, and most everyone else, ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY It was like looking at the sun and not going blind
JOHN COREY WHALEY People didn't like having to come up with something smart or helpful or sensitive to say, and they w...
JOHN COREY WHALEY His brother, he thinks, was in love with everyone he knew.
JOHN COREY WHALEY ...God was like the best musician in the world, because he put together all the sounds of nature and...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Dr. Webb says that losing a sibling is oftentimes much harder for a person than losing any other mem...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I wanted the world to sit back, listen up, and let me explain to it that when someone is sad and hop...
JOHN COREY WHALEY When I asked him the meaning of life, Dr. Webb got very quiet and then told me life has no one meani...
JOHN COREY WHALEY We've learned from this that death can hurt us. It can surprise us. It can scare us. It can keep us ...
JOHN COREY WHALEY I can't seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingl...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Life, he says, doesn’t have to be so bad all the time. We don’t have to be anxious about everyth...
JOHN COREY WHALEY Some people sign on for the impossible. And they're the ones everybody remembers.
JOHN COREY WHALEY Solomon had good days and he had bad days, but the good had far outnumbered the bad since Lisa and C...
JOHN COREY WHALEY The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that g...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I have a pig valve.
BARBARA BUSH Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It's the capacity to understand that every...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
BARBARA WALTERS Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is count...
BARBARA BOXER In 1984, George Orwell wrote of a world where the only colour to be found was in the propaganda post...
BARBARA DEMICK Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaki...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Trust is to human relationships what faith is to gospel living. It is the beginning place, the found...
BARBARA SMITH There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human c...
BARBARA EHRENREICH I also found that for myself, since I've had no religious education, it was so interesting to se...
BARBARA WALTERS A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
BARBARA WALTERS I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you hav...
BARBARA WALTERS First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as...
BARBARA WALTERS I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the sa...
BARBARA WALTERS The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
BARBARA WALTERS I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
BARBARA WALTERS Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children...
BARBARA WALTERS Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but ha...
BARBARA WALTERS When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you ...
BARBARA WALTERS A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna - or it can smooth the edges,...
BARBARA WALTERS Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subj...
BARBARA WALTERS I didn't have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERS Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Gho...
BARBARA TUCHMAN To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
BARBARA TUCHMAN For me, the card catalog has been a companion all my working life. To leave it is like leaving the h...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
BARBARA TUCHMAN No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Books are humanity in print.
BARBARA TUCHMAN War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
BARBARA TUCHMAN The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell wi...
BARBARA TUCHMAN Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
BARBARA TUCHMAN I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
BARBARA STEELE Certainly, in Italy, nobody takes light for granted.
BARBARA STEELE In the sequence where I am burned at the stake, everything was so casual and hazardous that the bott...
BARBARA STEELE The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
BARBARA STEELE I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.
BARBARA STEELE If you were out of a job and your kid needed diapers and your husband just left you, you would be so...
BARBARA STEELE Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
BARBARA STEELE I was obliged to stand there, holding the leash of this creature for their welcoming publicity shots...
BARBARA STEELE After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs...
BARBARA STEELE I'm now the Lord of the Brighton Manor.
BARBARA STANWYCK My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty...
BARBARA STANWYCK Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I ...
BARBARA STANWYCK Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
BARBARA STANWYCK A major problem for Black women, and all people of color, when we are challenged to oppose anti-Semi...
BARBARA SMITH One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply ...
BARBARA SMITH You can only paint through your experience and sub-consciousness.
BARBARA SMITH This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
BARBARA SMITH Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
BARBARA SMITH Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entit...
BARBARA SMITH It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you ...
BARBARA SHER We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER You don't have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do - can love things that no one else can ...
BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer.
BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth ...
BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fr...
BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recogni...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I'm always telling students when I do a master class on audiobooks: 'Watch Meryl Streep. Wat...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all ...
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
BARBARA ROSENBLAT Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
BARBARA PYM How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should t...
BARBARA PYM I was a good kid, but I was just very chatty. Teachers were rarely entertained, but occasionally a c...
BARBARA PARK My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that ...
BARBARA PARK My criteria for what makes a book an official 'favorite,' is based almost entirely on how de...
BARBARA PARK I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
BARBARA PARK My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to...
BARBARA PARK I find the term 'perfect child' to be an oxymoron.
BARBARA PARK Of all the novels I've written, my favorite is 'Mick Harte Was Here'.
BARBARA PARK Ever since I began writing my Junie B. Jones series, people have been assuming that the character is...
BARBARA PARK Society just has a way of inhibiting you, which is good and bad.
BARBARA PARK I'm so lazy as far as liking to get up, go to the office in my pajamas, get dressed about noon. ...
BARBARA PARK I like to think that Junie B. looks at the world - and this isn't a negative comment on her - fr...
BARBARA PARK I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
BARBARA PARK There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
BARBARA PARK I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I jus...
BARBARA PARK I wasn't that over-the-top, but I got sent to the principal in first grade for talking. And my f...
BARBARA PARK For 20 years I've gotten to laugh my way through my work. For me, that's a dream job.
BARBARA PARK All of my characters are less than perfect.
BARBARA PARK There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of...
BARBARA PARK In the mind of Bill Clinton, political considerations outweigh even life-and-death matters of great ...
BARBARA OLSON He decided to plunge on with pardons over the department's objections, or where he knew that the...
BARBARA OLSON Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
BARBARA OLSON There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all ...
BARBARA OLSON From what we've heard about George W., he has a lot issues that he wants to run on. They're ...
BARBARA OLSON Hopefully, at some point, people will at least credit the Republicans with carrying out their oversi...
BARBARA OLSON Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton admi...
BARBARA OLSON It's difficult to believe that Al Gore was oblivious to the existing laws. He has to respond at ...
BARBARA OLSON Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable ...
BARBARA OLSON I think that's going to be an issue: Whether or not voters are going to get more of the same in ...
BARBARA OLSON The mainstream media has chosen their candidates and their issues, and they're not the same as t...
BARBARA OLSON I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls...
BARBARA OLSON The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat...
BARBARA OLSON Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of autho...
BARBARA OLSON It might seem unfair to reward a person for having so much pleasure over the years, asking the maize...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK If you know you are on the right track, if you have this inner knowledge, then nobody can turn you o...
BARBARA MCCLINTOCK We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at an...
BARBARA MANDRELL What I do miss that I don't get anymore? You're going to think I'm crazy, but you want t...
BARBARA MANDRELL That is the exciting thing: I don't know what God has given me for tomorrow.
BARBARA MANDRELL It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I think it was 37 years that I did music.
BARBARA MANDRELL I am loving being Momma. I really, really am.
BARBARA MANDRELL For the next approximately three years, I have got Nathan to take care of. I know that once he gradu...
BARBARA MANDRELL And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h...
BARBARA MANDRELL I'm a very competitive person, and I always competed with myself. Every year, I'd take six w...
BARBARA MANDRELL When I retired from my music November 1997, it had been 37 years.
BARBARA MANDRELL We had to go all through the night thinking that our baby was dead. When God showed him to us, he wa...
BARBARA MANDRELL I am not saying that I'm happy about what's going on right now in our nation, but I am at pe...
BARBARA MANDRELL There will come a time when the public will tire of me and let me know it. That's when I retire....
BARBARA MANDRELL I've been told by a lot of people after concerts that they felt the show was just for them. And ...
BARBARA MANDRELL That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life.
BARBARA MANDRELL I don't know what the future holds, but I know that God holds tomorrow, so it is exciting. Even ...
BARBARA MANDRELL In my garden, which is a big garden, I have one part that is my bird garden, and every morning, 365 ...
BARBARA MANDRELL I realize we're not promised tomorrow. Believe me, I realize that. But if God blesses me and let...
BARBARA MANDRELL I have lots of favorite shows, but not reality! I don't like reality TV so much. I'm saddene...
BARBARA MANDRELL I learned mainly through television, but I learned how to do mosaic, where you can buy stones or thi...
BARBARA MANDRELL I just like doing silly girly things. If I wrap a gift, I like to use specials ribbon and hot glue, ...
BARBARA MANDRELL It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors...
BARBARA MANDRELL I might not be very smart, but I surround myself with smart people.
BARBARA MANDRELL The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but ca...
BARBARA MANDRELL I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
BARBARA LYNN I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him...
BARBARA LYNN I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN