Dolly Parton Quotes

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

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• A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • Man
  • Talent

• When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • You
  • Stress

• I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Great
  • May
  • Business

• Is anything, in all respects, so influential as consideration? Does it not, by a kindly anticipation, create the divisions of the active life itself, in a manner rehearsing and arranging beforehand what has to be done?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Life
  • Done
  • Anticipation

• The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Like
  • Special
  • Old

• The laws of the marketplace are physical laws, and they don't become suspended in a crisis any more than the law of gravity does.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Law
  • Become
  • Gravity

• I am a ball player in the summer and a farmer in the winter time, and I aim to be a success at both professions.

  

  Zack Wheat
  • Time
  • Success
  • Player

• Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Achieve
  • Clear
  • Debt

• I really like the Doors. I like Kevin Spacey, Bruce Springsteen, Will Farrell, Reggie Watts, Tina Turner, who is also very hot, Tracy Chapman. Beethoven.

  

  Flula Borg
  • Like
  • Doors
  • Hot

• Everybody has been saying 'Srimanthudu' is the best film of my career. After watching the film, Dad told me that he's never seen me perform like this. I just couldn't stop myself from crying.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Career
  • Me
  • Stop

• The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • World

• Lir chiseled at the stone. It would take a month to make a perceptible impression on it. He had a few hours. Work harder, then.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work

• A sitcom is the closest thing for me to doing stage because you work in front of an audience, and if it's well written it can be very satisfying.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Work

• Heroes do extraordinary things. What I did was not an extraordinary thing. It was normal.

  

  Irena Sendler

• There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id involved.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Violence

• Brainwashed from rock and rap.

  

  Eminem
  • Rock
  • Rap

• Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner than the flat-bottomed pleasure-lovers but we venture out in weather that would sink them and we choose our direction.

  

  Cyril Connolly
  • Reality
  • Deep
  • Wind

• When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Important
  • Practice
  • Meditation

• I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale - never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Honesty

• Hurry and hurry, autumn leaves hurrying on the rainy wind, snow hurrying out of the sky, life hurrying to death, gods hurrying to oblivion.

  

  Poul Anderson
  • Life
  • Death
  • Wind

• Here's to the wind blowing against this lighted house and to the vast, windless spaces between the stars.

  

  William Collins
  • House
  • Wind
  • Against

• Jämmerlich ist freilich jene praktische Philosophie der Franzosen und Engländer, von denen man meint, sie wüßten so gut, was der Mensch sei, unerachtet sie nicht darüber spekulierten, was er sein solle.

  

  Friedrich Schleiermacher

• The nations of the world, if they follow the Lord, will continue to be a blessing to His children so long as they trust and follow Him.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • World
  • Long
  • Children

• We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Wind
  • Sails