Dolly Parton Quotes

A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

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• One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Know
  • Jesus
  • Teach

• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I think I've always been somebody to break rules.

  

  Manish Dayal
  • Think
  • Always
  • Rules

• I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Time
  • Long
  • Want

• Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Think
  • Play
  • Years

• I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Important
  • May
  • Lost

• My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • Father
  • California
  • Rich

• I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.

  

  Pam Dawber
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Been

• I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.

  

  Karen Black
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that's what keeps you alive. That's what keeps you from getting stale.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Comfort Zone

• Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

  

  Saadi
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Yourself

• It's a really natural thing: The people closest in your life are the people you want the first opinions from. At the end of the day, if you're not trying to impress those people first, then I think there's something wrong there.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Trying

• In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.

  

  Victor Vasarely
  • Freedom
  • Research

• In fact, my mom always told me because I was the daughter of an Army officer born overseas in Paris, France, that under the Constitution she believed that I could never run for president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • She
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• Those who have the power and should be the most responsible are often the least responsible.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Power
  • Should
  • Responsible

• Misery loves company. This is a Hollywood soap opera, and I'm not going to be a star in another Bryant soap opera.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Star
  • Company
  • Hollywood

• It has given me a global vantage point, being the daughter of immigrants from China, who had nothing when they came here. And now I am leading a company. It speaks to something deep in me, the concept that you don't have to start with anything.

  

  Andrea Jung
  • Deep
  • Daughter

• What's so good about goodbye?All it does is make you cry.Well, if leaving causes grieving,And depart can break you heart,Tell me (what's so good about it)I could have done without it.What's so good about goodbye?

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Done

• The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Success

• The thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heart
  • Blessings
  • Heavenly

• If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear my voice come through the music Would you hold it near as it were your own?

  

  Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
  • Voice
  • Gold
  • Tunes

• A great smile is a wonderful asset, but a good heart is pure gold.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Heart
  • Gold
  • Smile