Dolly Parton Quotes

I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

Dolly Parton

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• I have absolutely no intention of marrying Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Intention
  • Marrying
  • Kennedy

• When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Today
  • House
  • Clothes

• Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Intention

• I've always thought that as long as I did the right things and had the right intentions, everything would fall into place.

  

  John Travolta
  • Long
  • Fall
  • Intention

• My intention is to make interesting photographs. That's it, in the end. I don't make it up. Let's say it's a world I never made. That's what was there to deal with.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Up
  • World
  • Interesting

• I'm a good craftsman and I can have this particular intention: let's say, I want a photograph that's going to push a certain button in an audience, to make them laugh or love, feel warm or hate or what - I know how to do this.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Good
  • Hate
  • Audience

• When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)

  

  Alan Paton
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Question

• Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Powerful
  • Retiring

• I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Writing
  • Stop
  • Retiring

• Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Question
  • Passion

• There is that in the soul of man which must respond to the highest in virtue. It may not respond at once. Human nature can easily be over-faced by examples too remote and austere. Moreover, human nature can easily deny God because the whole race has long been in rebellion against Him. Yet there is that in human nature which calls out to the supreme examples of virtue: owns, as it were, the intention of God who made it, and feels the unmistakable homesickness of the soul.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • God
  • Long
  • May

• Everything I make is with intention. I'm not very haphazard with my artist work, although I wish I was sometimes. I'm very conscious of the conversations I'm pushing about different threads and themes around landscape and characters that exist - how it's pictured, who's pictured it, who's owned it and who's been able to inhabit certain spaces. I have other interests as well. I'm really obsessed now with going to gay male dance clubs. I find those thrilling. I'm interested in what future characters can come.

  

  Xaviera Simmons
  • Characters
  • Intention
  • Conversations

• If design is the first signal of human intention.

  

  William McDonough
  • Design
  • Humans
  • Firsts

• Spare me therefore, your good intentions, your inner sensitivities, your unarticulated and unexpressed love. And spare me also these tedious psycho-historians which, by exposing the goodness inside the bad man, and the evil in the good-invariably establish a vulgar and perverse egalitarianism, as if the arrangement of what is outside and what inside makes no moral difference.

  

  Willard Gaylin
  • Men
  • Evil
  • Moral

• Dont throw yourself out on another’s whim. People change, as do intentions and as a result, consequences. Live for yourself - Love those around you, but realize that they’ve got their own agendas.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • People
  • Realizing
  • Consequence

• I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011. I'm actually doing it.

  

  Yasiin Bey Black Star
  • Names
  • Retiring

• A lot of people want to judge the fact that I'm an actor. That's ridiculous. No one knows what I was doing before I made my first movie. I just happened to do it as an actor all the while I've been doing music, but never with the intention to become a screaming famous pop star.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Judging
  • Ridiculous

• I didn't retire, I became irrelevant - there is a big difference.

  

  Kevin Drew Broken Social Scene
  • Differences
  • Bigs
  • Retiring

• My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Future

• I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

  

  Aliko Dangote
  • World
  • Work
  • Business

• People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

  

  Ginger Baker Cream
  • Abortion
  • Metals

• Politics, nature, and what is happening all over the world is important to who we are and where we live.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Important
  • Live

• I figure if I keep my health, I have no intention of retiring. I love to work. I want to be like Bob Hope.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Intention
  • Retiring
  • Bob