Dolly Parton Quotes

I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

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• The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Student
  • Restaurant
  • Reviews

• The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Book
  • Earth

• The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Live
  • Eating

• These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Moments

• Once in my childhood I had been eager to learn Irish; I thought to get leave to take lessons from an old Scripture-reader who spent a part of his time in the parish of Killinane, teaching such scholars as he could find to read their own language in the hope that they might turn to the only book then being printed in Irish, the Bible.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • Book
  • Hope

• There are too many 50-year-olds dressing as 20-year-olds.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Many
  • Dressing
  • Too

• Cyder was anciently the main drink of the country people in the West of England.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Country
  • Drink

• I go to work and get to hang out with nothing but my kind of guys!

  

  Yuri Lowenthal
  • Work
  • Kind
  • Go

• We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.

  

  Val Guest
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• On career day as a young journalist, I scraped up my money and went to this big conference for young journalists, and the great feedback I got was that I would not or should not become an anchor because my eyelashes were too long and too distracting.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Great
  • Long

• One shouldn't ever be conscious of the author as lecturer. When social or moral points are too heavily stressed, I always get uncomfortable.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • Moral
  • Author

• It is said that the children of the very poor are not brought up, but dragged up.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Up
  • Children

• Commercial fishermen are the greediest, stupidest people on earth.

  

  Paul Watson
  • People
  • Earth

• There are quite a few disgruntled Greenpeacers who are opposed to its policy of non-cooperation.

  

  Paul Watson

• For me, I'm just too bad at remembering the details of lengths of parts of songs, so if we had backing tracks, it would be a recipe for disaster.

  

  Kevin Parker Tame Impala
  • Bad

• Because Bin Laden's culture doesn't permit the worship of images, they understand how powerful images are. We wouldn't have thought of creating a visual bomb. In a way, he's chopped down two iconic buildings, and used our very truth imagery, to express himself. It's fascinating... I mean, dreadful.

  

  Alison Jackson
  • Truth
  • Culture
  • Powerful

• I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's a thrill that's unequaled anywhere.

  

  Joel Grey
  • Up
  • Expectation

• To wake up in England and have the newspaper on your front door with a headline that says, 'Ozzie's Beach Whale of a Daughter,' doesn't really do much for your self-esteem at all.

  

  Kelly Osbourne
  • Up
  • Door
  • Daughter

• The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.

  

  Denis Waitley
  • Life
  • Done
  • Hand

• I'm so grateful to grab hold of something that wants to be a play. It doesn't happen very often. I don't have unwritten plays waiting for their turn.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Want
  • Play
  • Waiting

• At the beginning, my ambition was never to break down doors. It was just to earn tuition for myself and work in an industry where women hadn't been allowed or invited. That's all I wanted to do, not thinking that I would make waves, change minds, excite people, incite people, turn on people, repulse people.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• My parents didn't give me any scope to feel sorry for myself. They were just like 'go play with your brother, go climb a tree, go fall off your motorbike, do whatever you want. Don't come crying to us when you get scratched. You've got prosthetic legs - that's very nice.'

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Parents
  • Nice
  • Fall

• The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because we are sorry, angry, or fearful as the case may be.

  

  William James
  • Sorry
  • Cry
  • Apology

• I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Sorry
  • Penthouses