I can say this, now that my own beloved and irreplaceable parents are gone: George and Barbara Bush are parents anyone would kill to have.

- Christopher Buckley

I don't mean to be a diva, but some days you wake up and you're Barbara Streisand.

- Courtney Love

You won't see me on Barbara Walters; Oprah, that's not who I am.

- David Fincher

Authors I've longed to write like - but realize I actually can't even begin to - include Poe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Kafka, Daniil Kharms, Witold Gombrowicz, Emily Dickinson, Robert Walser, Barbara Comyns, Ntozake Shange, Camille Laurens, Zbigniew Herbert, and Jose Saramago.

- Helen Oyeyemi

I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John Grisham, Hilary Mantel, Toni Morrison, Anna Quindlen and Alice Walker.

- Hillary Clinton

Barbara Eden is the most beautiful girl in the world.

- Larry Hagman

When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.

- Laura Bell Bundy

I always know when a novel is going to be a Barbara Vine one. In fact I believe that if I weren't to write it as Barbara Vine, I wouldn't be able to write it at all.

- Ruth Rendell

I think people tuned in a lot to see Barbara when she first came here and they just didn't like the show they saw. I think it was dull. It was sterile.

- Roone Arledge

I've always wanted to record a jazz record. I did one in the '70s with Barbara Carroll. It's been a journey.

- Rita Coolidge

I always feel as if I'm a disappointment: that people want a grand dame in furs like Barbara Taylor Bradford.

- Sue Townsend

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

- Tom Selleck