The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he cou...
BARBARA CORCORAN Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling...
BARBARA CORCORAN If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving busi...
BARBARA CORCORAN No one tells salesmen what they can and can't do.
BARBARA CORCORAN You may not like the idea of putting money into a home when you're moving out. But it's dema...
BARBARA CORCORAN I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it'...
BARBARA CORCORAN I wanted to be a 150% entrepreneur and a 150% mom, and I found that I was having a very hard time do...
BARBARA CORCORAN It's rumored that doing well in real estate is to be able to close a deal. I did not find that t...
BARBARA CORCORAN My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was readin...
BARBARA CORCORAN Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Ge...
BARBARA CORCORAN I had probably seven agents by the time I became a legitimate real estate broker.
BARBARA CORCORAN The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
BARBARA CORCORAN No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced...
BARBARA CORCORAN I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of t...
BARBARA CORCORAN A whopping 89 percent of buyers start their home search online. How your house looks online is the m...
BARBARA CORCORAN I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Stre...
BARBARA CORCORAN I have a theory and I really believe it. I think your worst weakness can become your greatest single...
BARBARA CORCORAN Especially if you're over 40, shortening the term of your loan to pay it off sooner could make y...
BARBARA CORCORAN A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
BARBARA CORCORAN I did everything in my power to give my brokers brand identity and clout in the market. I saw my job...
BARBARA CORCORAN Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, ...
BARBARA CORCORAN Don't you dare underestimate the power of your own instinct.
BARBARA CORCORAN A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a...
BARBARA CORCORAN The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when...
BARBARA CORCORAN In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have de...
BARBARA CORCORAN Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career...
BARBARA CORCORAN What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300...
BARBARA CORCORAN In New York City, the meek don't inherit the earth. The big mouth does.
BARBARA CORCORAN When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine yo...
BARBARA CORCORAN The best mistake I ever made was believing that I was stupid. It was a childhood thing, but it playe...
BARBARA CORCORAN Refinancing your mortgage usually makes sense if you can lower your interest rate by at least two po...
BARBARA CORCORAN All of America right now is having a love affair with real estate.
BARBARA CORCORAN The wheels of justice - they're square wheels
BARBARA CORCORAN The most influential factor in selling a home is always price. Don't build 'wiggle room'...
BARBARA CORCORAN If your house has been on the market for more than four months, take it off the market and re-list i...
BARBARA CORCORAN I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved b...
BARBARA CORCORAN Most great entrepreneurs I know are nothing like the other kids. They're almost like tangent lin...
BARBARA CORCORAN I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew somethin...
BARBARA CORCORAN If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
BARBARA CORCORAN Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want t...
BARBARA CORCORAN My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There'...
BARBARA CORCORAN I sat down and collected all of our eleven sales for the past six months and I added them all togeth...
BARBARA CORCORAN I'm never in control of my time during the workday.
BARBARA CORCORAN I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with m...
BARBARA CORCORAN Everybody thinks that they're going to time the market, they're going to sharpshoot the mark...
BARBARA CORCORAN People stayed with me and worked extra hard for me because I could see the potential in them - I'...
BARBARA CORCORAN Every single thing I learned about marketing and building my business, I learned from my mom, and sh...
BARBARA CORCORAN I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those...
BARBARA CORCORAN If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should ...
BARBARA CORCORAN My mother is an amazing woman. Not only did she manage the entire household, she noticed a gift in e...
BARBARA CORCORAN I was well motivated. What I wanted to do was work for myself. I had twenty two jobs before I starte...
BARBARA CORCORAN What separates her is that she wants to set a legacy at Pope John. She wants to do things that nobod...
BRIAN CORCORAN Casey has been a great key for us. She came in this season and we thought maybe she'd make varsity a...
BRIAN CORCORAN When you have 31 guys out for the team there's a lot of competition because everyone wants to be in ...
BRIAN CORCORAN It's definitely a pride issue now. Nobody wants to be on the team that ends that streak.
BRIAN CORCORAN Our season starts Saturday. Saturday gets the ball started for us. They all know how important (the ...
BRIAN CORCORAN She was excited with her performance as this was really the first time she pushed herself this seaso...
BRIAN CORCORAN Tim had a real nice race for us today. If we can do that at the big meets, we will do very well.
BRIAN CORCORAN The boys ran very well today. We're still working on our compression for our one through five runner...
BRIAN CORCORAN We have six people who are trying to get into that relay and, if the girls don't toe the line, I am ...
DANNY CORCORAN They didn't get the blunt end of it.
TIM CORCORAN We've rebuilt the perimeter of the field and have been treating it with industrial grade detergent t...
HOWARD CORCORAN We believe that 2006 will surpass 2005 in terms of overall revenues generated from health care adver...
DANIEL CORCORAN I'm extremely intrigued by the ability of them to grow enough crops for 7 million people in the dese...
DANIEL CORCORAN Miami-Dade fared a lot better than Broward and Palm Beach specifically because of the preponderance ...
JOHN CORCORAN It will be something special and, obviously, having the fastest man in the world compete is a huge c...
DANNY CORCORAN We can put two and two together. That's not suggesting that there was any nefarious doings. But the ...
JOHN CORCORAN They rearranged boxes, they changed titles, but the fact is, nothing has changed.
LANCE CORCORAN The drum beat is not as loud and fast as it was two to three weeks ago. I think it's about time. I l...
JOHN CORCORAN This is a view found to be widely held by the athletics community.
DANNY CORCORAN I've spoken to both girls and they agreed it was not painting the sport in the right light.
DANNY CORCORAN Certainly Greg still has a chance of competing in Melbourne and that's why selectors have the discre...
DANNY CORCORAN What is really sad is he had an incredible opportunity to lead this department in a new direction, b...
LANCE CORCORAN We couldn't do what we do without our sponsors. I can't say enough how important our sponsors play i...
HOWARD CORCORAN We have one of the best playing fields in the country. So far this fall, the field was used 88 times...
HOWARD CORCORAN They have almost totally revamped their football field, but the construction work around the high sc...
HOWARD CORCORAN You can only do the best you can. We set the benchmark and everyone is trying to catch up with us. A...
HOWARD CORCORAN We make kids the focal point. Our mission is the kids, the kids, the kids. Take care of the kids.
HOWARD CORCORAN Super six, what is it? A state football championship done on a two-year bid cycle. All (West Virgini...
HOWARD CORCORAN It has proven to be a great asset for the kids of Ohio County and Belmont County.
HOWARD CORCORAN A guy knows he'll get out, and he doesn't really have to try and do anything to turn his life around...
LANCE CORCORAN What is really sad is he had an incredible opportunity to lead this department in a new direction, b...
LANCE CORCORAN They're used in every prison in California.
LANCE CORCORAN We're all for reform. But you have to do it right.
LANCE CORCORAN Anything and everything they are doing at the top is not translating to the staff, to the facilities...
LANCE CORCORAN He got it in his system that he wanted to help people, and he would do it. If you needed anything, h...
PATRICK CORCORAN 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 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