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 You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actuall...
BARBARA SHER Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in ...
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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 It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caus...
BARBARA SHER Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you...
BARBARA SHER I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or late...
BARBARA SHER Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the wo...
BARBARA SHER Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHER The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
BARBARA SHER When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we'r...
BARBARA SHER People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing...
BARBARA SHER The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
BARBARA SHER People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing...
BARBARA SHER When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh ...
BARBARA SHER Isolation is a dream killer
BARBARA SHER 'Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hou...
BARBARA SHER You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you act...
BARBARA SHER Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHER And our dreams are who we are.
BARBARA SHER You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everythi...
BARBARA SHER ''Now'' is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the ho...
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love......
BARBARA SHER And our dreams are who we are
BARBARA SHER Every single one of us can do things that no one else can, love things that no one else can love...W...
BARBARA SHER Change is not only likely, it's inevitable
BARBARA SHER When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an out...
BARBARA SHER How can families harm us when they love us? Very easily, unfortunately. Most of us overlook one impo...
BARBARA SHER Since then I’ve come to believe you don’t always have to use things you love, and it’s not alw...
BARBARA SHER I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was
BARBARA SHER I'm sort of a Freudian about theater; it's always a struggle between freedom and security, b...
BARTLETT SHER That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us l...
BARTLETT SHER Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some...
BARTLETT SHER The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
BARTLETT SHER When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
BARTLETT SHER We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to...
BARTLETT SHER I have had just an excess of energy. That's why I've always been active.
EDEN SHER I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.
EDEN SHER I love oral hygiene.
EDEN SHER Someone was asking me what my favorite outfit is, and 100%, without a doubt in my mind, is my foreve...
EDEN SHER I love the holidays on 'The Middle' because I feel like I'm getting that very traditiona...
EDEN SHER I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was...
EDEN SHER I don't realize how rare it is to genuinely have sincere love for everyone you work with. Especi...
EDEN SHER I never want to sound preachy about youth and feminism, but I feel like there aren't enough youn...
EDEN SHER The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat abo...
EDEN SHER On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christ...
EDEN SHER I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in a...
EDEN SHER I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
EDEN SHER I remember the general anxiety of teenager, and I remember establishing some sort of appearance base...
EDEN SHER I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
EDEN SHER I have some sarcastic sides of me.
EDEN SHER I feel very strongly that young women have regressed a little bit. But I do get all preachy about it...
EDEN SHER I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn...
ANTONY SHER With both plays, you have people standing around doing nothing while other people are doing terrible...
BARTLETT SHER Americans like to believe we can overcome all obstacles and always triumph in the end, but that's no...
BARTLETT SHER I thought it would be kind of fun to open our next season on a very strong, classical note,
BARTLETT SHER For a town this size, the level of the arts it supports is extraordinary.
BARTLETT SHER [Nominated for a 2005 Tony Award for his luminous staging of] The Light in the Piazza, ... Awake and...
BARTLETT SHER The play is funny. And people love baseball. But there's a moral lesson. 'Rounding Third' is particu...
BARTLETT SHER You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commander of...
ANTONY SHER Most of my career has been spent with the RSC doing Shakespeare, and the thing you learn from Shakes...
ANTONY SHER Life is just more comfortable if you're honest and open about everything. I spent so many years bein...
ANTONY SHER I have no cynicism at all.
ANTONY SHER As a gay Jewish white South African, I belong to quite a lot of minority groups. You constantly have...
ANTONY SHER You don't expect to get the letter saying, Her Majesty would like to appoint you Knight Commande...
ANTONY SHER I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.
EDEN SHER I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts...
ANTONY SHER Sometimes the vocal minority is heard over the silent majority.
CRAIG SHER It doesn't matter if you have a D, or an I or an R after your name if you have a job - a J-O-B. ...
SHER VALENZUELA I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.
ANTONY SHER The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a da...
ANTONY SHER If you're sitting in a corporate boardroom in one of the other 50 states deciding where to put 100 s...
CRAIG SHER They're fine people. I understand what they're going through. This is the world of democracy.
CRAIG SHER I think everybody gets what they wanted. Nobody ever really objected to residential.
CRAIG SHER We are grateful to have been able to contribute to the development of Tampa's historic Latin Quarter...
CRAIG SHER It was a matter of whether we should spend more money on a project that never really provided any re...
CRAIG SHER We stand committed to pursue the peace process, but not under the threat of terrorist attacks. We we...
GILEAD SHER Whatever comes out of direct negotiations between the parties as a result of negotiations and debate...
GILEAD SHER The last leg in the negotiations is always the most difficult. It requires courage. It requires a lo...
GILEAD SHER I would say that definitely yes, it's possible to finish the conflict and reach a reasonable agreeme...
GILEAD SHER It's not unusual for the bikers not only to take on their rivals, but to eat their own.
JULIAN SHER The hatred between these two groups has been quite longstanding.
JULIAN SHER Very tough, but never able to take a foothold in Canada because the Hells Angels -- through a combin...
JULIAN SHER Fighting with your fate is equal to fight with God.
SHER E YAZDAN I would choose to live a century in a dark room instead of hanging out with fake friends.
SHER E YAZDAN 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 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