Dolly Parton Quotes

My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

Dolly Parton

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• Toilets

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• I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Remember
  • Books
  • Paper

• I worked also, doing things such as our paper route and, later on, waitressing.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Things
  • Doing
  • Paper

• As Peter Bogdanovich would say of Paper Moon: Ryan's wonderful in it, and he sat there and watched the kid steal the picture.

  

  Tatum O'Neal
  • Picture
  • Moon
  • Paper

• I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Words
  • Like
  • Paper

• The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Heart
  • Down
  • Paper

• I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Way
  • Paper
  • Bag

• A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Worth
  • Paper
  • Contract

• You almost hold up your piece of paper and say, ‘The girl I like just gave me a treasure map to herself.’ But you don’t. You just don’t.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Pieces

• I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • People
  • Nervous
  • Newspapers

• The toilets are flushing great in the locker room.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Great
  • Room
  • Toilets

• If you want to live a meaningfully better life, you're going to have to make the dangerous choice to dissent. A life lived meaningfully isn't denominated by digital friends, designer logos, or wads of paper notes. It's denominated by what you've lived, what it's worth to you, and what that's worth to humanity.

  

  Umair Haque
  • Life
  • Live
  • Friends

• I remember quotes in the paper, 'Here comes the man that New York loves to hate.' Man? None of you have probably ever eaten steak with me or rice and beans with me to understand what the man is about. You might say the player, the competitor, but the man? You guys have abused my name. You guys have said so many things, have written so many things.

  

  Pedro Martinez
  • Remember
  • Paper
  • Quotes

• Lean Pockets, I don't even wanna know what's in those. I wonder what the directions are on a box of Lean Pockets: 'Remove from box, place directly in toilet.' Flush Pocket!

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Wonder
  • Boxes
  • Pockets

• God's voice had been reduced to paper, and even that paper had to be moderated and deciphered by the proper authorities and intellect.

  

  William P. Young
  • Voice
  • Authority
  • Paper

• Putting out a newspaper without promotion is like winking at a girl in the dark -- well-intentioned, but ineffective.

  

  William Randolph Hearst
  • Girl
  • Dark
  • Newspapers

• Writing is truly a creative art - putting word to a blank piece of paper and ending up with a full-fledged story rife with character and plot.

  

  William Shatner
  • Writing
  • Art
  • Character

• I tried to do the impossible on paper -- beat the middleweight champ coming up from 130 pounds.

  

  Oscar De La Hoya
  • Impossible
  • Paper
  • Champ

• You can try and read my lyrics off of this paper before I lay 'em But you won't take the sting out these words before I say 'em

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Trying
  • Paper
  • Ems

• I don't know how many thoughts we have a second, but it's quite an amazing number, and just to pin down the appropriate sequence of those, all you really need is a pencil and a piece of paper.

  

  Robert Wyatt
  • Needs
  • Numbers
  • Pieces

• The power we call God defies description.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Power
  • Description

• The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer and Milton, the Greek tragedian and Shakespeare, Chaucer and Cervantes and Swift, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy and James and Conrad. Time does not make their voices fainter, on the contrary, it reinforces our sense of their truth-telling capacity.

  

  Wendy Lesser
  • Truth
  • Greek
  • Century

• ...you will have a choice: to adjust how you live daily or to stay the same.

  

  Francis Chan
  • Choices

• I deteriorate. I might tell you something one day and then something else another day. You fold in on yourself and that's why this whole artistry thing is the devil. It's evil. I hope I don't succumb to it.

  

  Willis Earl Beal
  • Day
  • Devil
  • Artistry

• My aunt in Knoxville would bring newspapers up, which we used for toilet paper. Before we used it, we'd look at the pictures.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Paper
  • Newspapers
  • Toilets