Dolly Parton Quotes
Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.
Quotes to Explore
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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I've always been one to throw caution to the wind, and my motto has been, 'Never have a dull moment.' Sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't, but I don't think I'd have it much differently.
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If it's accessible by hundreds of millions of people, then it's as mainstream as it gets.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.
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I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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I reveled in the most basic rules and techniques that are the foundation of professional cooking. For example, it is essential to use a sharp knife: the sharper the knife, the more fluid and precise your work and the less likely you are to get hurt. Dull knives are a danger - they slip far more often.
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Music leaves such a big impression. I always wondered, 'Man, if I grew up in Nashville, would I be making Country records now?' I honestly feel like Chicago had such a big impact on me.
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In the military, you learn the essence of people. You see so many examples of self-sacrifice and moral courage. In the rest of life, you don't get that many opportunities to be sure of your friends.
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don't know I'm firing blanks.
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I love designing costumes that I can actually construct, working to create an environment that people want to be in.
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It's so important to be your own biggest fan, even if you have to constantly convince people, including yourself, that you're worthy of their time and energy and ears.
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I had this contract to write songs for people when I was about 18. I don't think any of them were taken up; I was a complete failure at it! But I've kept doing it, writing little songs for myself.
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Music lives in me. Life is a song to me. I have the gift of rhyme, and I'm always trying to write and rhyme. Music is just natural everyday occurrence with me.
