Dolly Parton Quotes

I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

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• If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Lazy
  • Get

• No better way is there to learn to love Nature than to understand Art. It dignifies every flower of the field. And, the boy who sees the thing of beauty which a bird on the wing becomes when transferred to wood or canvas will probably not throw the customary stone.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Beauty

• I had some interesting costumes... the one that I remember right offhand is Zorro when I was a lot younger. I was a big time Zorro fan. My mom helped me make it, and I remember having a big issue with the fact that she wouldn't let me carry around a real metal sword; it just had to be plastic.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Remember
  • Interesting
  • Mom

• Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Teach
  • Insight
  • Reveal

• I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Better
  • Ground
  • Holding

• I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.

  

  Nate Torrence
  • Feel
  • Class
  • Last

• Hmmm... I never get the answer I think I'm going to get.

  

  Kate O'Brien
  • Think
  • Never
  • Answer

• I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Believe
  • Cat

• And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Hair

• To inform, and, therefore to reconnoitre, this is the first and constant duty of the advanced guard.

  

  Ferdinand Foch

• Clarice: getting cold feet There's still time!Toni: We can just call everyone and say we're terribly sorry but something came up and we have to leave town!Clarice: ...But what about the five gallons of baba ganoush, and all those tofu pups?Toni: Shit. I forgot. Well, I guess we'll just have to go through with it, then.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Up
  • Time
  • Cold

• I was a drummer and I played the guitar.

  

  Jam Master Jay

• The myth-making about Appomattox started from the moment Lee left the courthouse on his horse to travel to Richmond.

  

  Douglas Brinkley
  • Travel
  • Horse

• Meet them once and you're innocent; meet them twice and you're not. So if you see me having drinks again with Harvey Weinstein then, okay, you've got me.

  

  Matt Drudge
  • Innocent

• I'm loving every second working with the brilliant Kayvan Novak; it's a hoot from dawn to dusk!

  

  Bradley Walsh

• I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.

  

  Kesha
  • Baby

• Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Life

• Learning how to be a good parent was easy in the end because I'd basically had the What Not To Do manual.

  

  David Cassidy
  • Good
  • Learning

• If two wrongs don't make a right, then what do three wrongs make? What about four?

  

  Buzz Osborne

• I want to make my mum's life and my life safe.

  

  Martine McCutcheon
  • Life

• Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Work
  • Power
  • Bad

• Style, like the human body, is specially beautiful when, so to say, the veins are not prominent, and the bones cannot be counted, but when a healthy and sound blood fills the limbs, and shows itself in the muscles, and the very sinews become beautiful under a ruddy glow and graceful outline.

  

  Tacitus
  • Beautiful
  • Style

• Ask who wants to live to be a hundred, and the answer is the person who is ninety-nine.

  

  Betty Comden
  • Live
  • Answers
  • Hundred

• I don't think you ever really know what all you're doing, so you have to act on faith.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Knows