Dolly Parton Quotes

I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.

Dolly Parton

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• Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Important
  • Love
  • Feelings

• Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• At first, I was hesitant when it came to giving autographs, thinking that I am not even worth giving one. But slowly I got over that phase.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Phase
  • Autographs

• I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Need

• When I'm singing I feel like I'm talking to someone. I'm in conversation when I perform - either with myself or with whomever is listening.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Myself
  • Singing
  • Listening

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Powerful
  • Vote
  • Our

• It's really unfair to working women in America who read celebrity news and think, 'Why can't I lose weight when I've had a baby?' Well, everyone you're reading about has money for a trainer and a chef. That doesn't make it realistic.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Women
  • Money
  • Why

• I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • Know
  • Mystery
  • Not Knowing

• I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Up
  • Bible
  • Southern

• My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Life
  • Work
  • Believe

• We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Will
  • Angel
  • Hear

• The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Power
  • Road
  • Wealth

• I buy food and gasoline - that's it.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Food
  • Buy
  • Gasoline

• I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Moon
  • Fly

• The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Single

• The ridicule is pressure to consider ourselves less important than someone even more precious: A baby is more precious than a mother; a woman is more precious than a man.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Important
  • Mother
  • Baby

• We have a saying in the union: 'If a fellow looks like a duck and quacks like a duck and walks like a duck, the possibility is that he is a duck.' That is the way with a Communist. If the guy does everything that the party does, the prospects are very good that he is a party member or fellow traveler.

  

  Walter Reuther
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Party

• Faith is the most important thing in the world to me. It's the greatest strength I've had. It's helped me get through the hard times. You're not going to win every one of your football games. I've always said I'm not going to make football my god. A lot of coaches put so much into coaching football games that they have nothing left.

  

  Bobby Bowden
  • World
  • God
  • Important

• Whenever black women have a point, they're characterized as angry black women, and therefore the thing they're talking about is no longer of importance because they have to deal with them being overly emotional or something. I recognize that people who respond negatively to what I have to say aren't at a place yet where they are able to learn ... And it's exactly what I'm trying to fight.

  

  Amandla Stenberg
  • People
  • Women
  • Trying

• The fact is, in the minds of many, Trayvon Martin received the appropriate punishment for a true crime: He was black, male and dared to walk outside. In life, young Trayvon was just a teenager; in death, he has been transformed into a scary, lurking, suspicious, prone-to-violence spook.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Mind
  • Black
  • Scary

• Growing up, I was always really shy about my body.

  

  Marisa Miller
  • Up
  • Growing

• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Long
  • Age
  • Youth

• I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Age
  • Sixty