Dolly Parton Quotes

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• I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

  

  FKA twigs
  • Up
  • School
  • Pretty

• A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Time
  • Long
  • Today

• I first heard the story of Agnes Magnusdottir when I was an exchange student in the north of Iceland.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Story
  • Student
  • Iceland

• Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mom

• One of the ways I stuck out was I was a very passionate reader. There was probably a cyclical nature to that; the more I felt like an outcast, the more I sought refuge in books, and the more I sought refuge in books, the more it made me not speak the same language as my peers.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Nature
  • Language
  • Same

• I started singing in church with my sister Maria when I was four, and I've been pretty much singing ever since. There's never been anything else for me to do.

  

  Imelda May
  • Pretty
  • Me
  • Church

• Preparing and cooking squid is easier than most fish. The only thing to remember is not to cook it for too long.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Cooking

• Misuse of reason might yet return the world to pre-technological night; plenty of religious zealots hunger for just such a result, and are happy to use the latest technology to effect it.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • World
  • Happy
  • Night

• When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Learn
  • Teach
  • Taught

• He was in my hair, my eyes, my fingers, my heart. I day-dreamed about what he was doing, thinking, seeing, smelling, feeling. I could not eat for thoughts of him.

  

  Lisa See
  • Thinking
  • Heart
  • Feeling

• I'm coming on home to you instead cause they're all too ugly tonight.

  

  Jerry Lee Lewis
  • Home
  • Ugly
  • Adultery

• When you're faced with a choice, remember this: Everything else will pass away. Your family. Your friends. Your material possessions. Your beauty. Your youth. Your life. And there is only one thing that remains. Ask yourself: Which are you chasing?

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Play
  • Translations

• When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Books
  • Stuff
  • Prison

• A team of horses cannot overtake a word that has left the mouth.

  

  Arthur Waley
  • Word
  • Horses
  • Overtake

• Self-discipline is the key to personal greatness. It is the magic quality that opens all doors for you, and makes everything else possible. With self-discipline, the average person can rise as far and as fast as his talents and intelligence can take him. But without self-discipline, a person with every blessing of background, education and opportunity will seldom rise above mediocrity.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Opportunity
  • Education
  • Quality

• If you narrow the playing field, the next generation has less to put out, to eat and regenerate from.

  

  M.I.A.

• Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Fall
  • Dance
  • Hot

• I ain't never far away from a pencil and paper or a tape recorder.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Paper
  • Pencils