Dolly Parton Quotes

Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

Dolly Parton

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• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

  

  Ilya Yashin
  • Leave
  • Here
  • Predict

• I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Control
  • Problem

• The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Soul

• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Arts
  • Island
  • Puerto Rico

• So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.

  

  Radha Mitchell
  • Art
  • America
  • High

• Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Nature
  • Soul
  • Man

• There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Sleep

• After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.

  

  Yuichiro Miura
  • Man
  • Thought
  • Bored

• Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Day
  • Person
  • Alive

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• My father left me with his love of Jewish studies and cultural life. To this very day, along with several physicians and scientist colleagues, I take regular periodical lessons taught by a Rabbinical scholar on how the Jewish law views moral and ethical problems related to modern medicine and science.

  

  Aaron Ciechanover
  • Life
  • Science
  • Law

• The historical problem of the United States is to admit that it is a multiracial and multi-ethnic nation.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Problem
  • Nation
  • Admit

• Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get high. And it's killing people.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • High
  • Food

• Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Win
  • Army
  • Run

• She realized now that she knew little about people outside the courts of Nabban and Erkynland, although she had always thought herself a shrewd judge of humanity. However, it was a larger and much more complicated world on the other side of the castle walls than she had ever suspected.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • World
  • She

• Why not be a top-notcher? A top-notcher is simply an individual who works for the institution of which he is a part, not against it.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Why

• No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Up
  • World
  • Stress

• I don't think time is involved in how the thing is made.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Made

• Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

  

  Frank Morrison Spillane
  • Book
  • Hated
  • Millions

• When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he stops praying, the devils shouts for joy.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Joy
  • Christian
  • Bible

• I love this life, because I am a human being and it sure would be nice, I think, to preserve it. But I don't even know if that's true, because God's mind is huge, and I don't really know what he's thinking.I can only do what I do with a spirit of humor, and faith and give the controls over to something else.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Faith
  • Humor
  • I Love

• Speaking of the devil, well here he comes now. Got my defenses down. And I'd go through hell to make him mine.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Devil
  • Hell
  • Defense