Dolly Parton Quotes

Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

Dolly Parton

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• I once said that it was unacceptable for Japan to remain "an isolated prosperous island." At one time, it might have been all right for Japan to avoid sending any citizens to dangerous areas [even as part of international efforts] and just wish for its own people's happiness. That time is gone.

  

  Sadako Ogata
  • People
  • Time
  • Wish

• The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

  

  E. B. White
  • Life
  • Music
  • Small

• We built everything - toilets included. I think those islands in the middle of nowhere are quite poetic. It's kind of an Oriental Atlantis.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Poetic

• If I were ever stranded on a desert island, there would be 3 things I’d need: food, shelter, and a grip.

  

  George C. Scott
  • Needs
  • Desert
  • Islands

• We handed over nothing, those territories [Tarabarov Island to China] were disputed and we have been negotiating this issue with the People's Republic of China, let me stress that, for 40 years, and finally managed to come to an agreement. One part of the territory was assigned to Russia, while another part - to the People's Republic of China.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • People
  • China
  • Agreement

• However, the 1956 agreement refers to two islands while the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] is talking about four islands.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Agreement
  • Four
  • Islands

• Let's hope I never end up on a deserted island, because I could never make a decision on which three CDs to take with me.

  

  Willem Dafoe
  • Decision
  • Ends
  • Three

• If you want to take the island, then burn your boats. With absolute commitment come the insights that create real victory.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Commitment
  • Victory
  • Boat

• I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.

  

  Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
  • Thinking
  • Littles
  • Islands

• There are several sorts of religions, not only in different parts of the island, but even in every town; some worshipping the sun, others the moon or one of the planets.

  

  Thomas More
  • Different
  • Sun
  • Moon

• The Senkaku islands are inherently Japanese territory. I want to show my strong determination to prevent this from changing.

  

  Shinzo Abe
  • Strong
  • Shows
  • Determination

• My first novel, 'Sacrifice,' was set on the Shetland Islands.

  

  Sharon Bolton
  • Sacrifice
  • First
  • Novel

• The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Mean
  • Sports

• Because what we have done, we have thrown clothes off and they have picked them up and put them on.

  

  Nadine Dorries
  • Up
  • Done

• The original Star Wars ("A New Hope") has had the greatest impact on me of all the films I've ever watched. It's really what sparked something in me to want to make movies.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • War
  • Hope
  • Star

• If the church would only be the church- if Christians would only be Christians- nothing could halt our onward march.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Church
  • Christian
  • March

• I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• We all expect photographs to be a picture of something. We assume that the photographer observed a place, a person, an event in the world, and wants to record it, point at it…The problem with my work is that these images are really not of anything in that sense, they register only that which is incidental and peripheral to the implied it.

  

  Uta Barth
  • World
  • Work
  • Picture

• I always wanted to have a scenario where the guy didn't have my number, but I had his. What if women make the first move, send the first message? And if they don't, the match disappears after 24 hours, like in Cinderella, the pumpkin and the carriage? It'd be symbolic of a Sadie Hawkins dance - going after it, girls ask first.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Dance

• I do not know whether the Government will be able to get ready to conduct this transaction together with the management of Rosneft itself, whether the appropriate strategic investors will be found. And I believe it is about such investors that we should talk. But we are getting ready, and it is in the current year that we are planning to do this.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Together
  • Management

• If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

  

  Loretta Lynn
  • Singing
  • Chance
  • Husband

• A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Jokes
  • Civil Servant

• I'm very influenced by a lot of things, but my chief influence is my friends and what I see and what I feel and my own experiences and memory.

  

  Nan Goldin
  • Friends
  • Memories
  • Influence

• Islands in the streams, that is what we are.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Islands
  • Misinterpretation