Dolly Parton Quotes

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

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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

• 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

• 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

• The Sun is a mass of fiery stone, a little larger than Greece.

  

  Anaxagoras
  • Stone
  • Greece
  • Fiery

• Passions are no more forgiving than human laws and they reason more justly. Are they not based on a conscience of their own, infallible as an instinct?

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Conscience
  • Passions
  • Human Laws

• So I have probably 1,200 little bits of paper with notes, which when the Ambien really starts to kick in, don't really make much sense. Say what you like about prescription drugs, but they do help when you're sequencing a record.

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Help
  • Paper
  • Notes

• When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Picture
  • Paper
  • Piece

• I followed Shoji Hamada, because I guess Alix MacKenzie and I, we both saw the danger that lay in planning things out on paper and then simply executing them. And with Hamada there was a much more direct sense that the piece had happened in the process of making on the wheel, and that was what we wanted to do with our work. We weren't always able to do it, though.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Process
  • Able
  • Danger

• The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them.

  

  Paul Johnson
  • Words
  • Writer
  • Paper

• The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

  

  Mark Russell
  • Funny
  • inspirational
  • Theory

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Paper
  • Pencils