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

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

  

  Buzz Osborne

• Professionally, I did a couple of operas when I was in school, when I was 18.

  

  Lucy Griffiths
  • School
  • Couple

• When I am making a sequel, it needs to be different from what you have already seen. Yet, it needs to maintain a certain discipline so that people still associate it with the prequel.

  

  James Wan
  • People
  • Different
  • Discipline

• I have healthy disagreements with political parties I'm not aligned with, but I don't think it should be to the point where we're cursing and trying to strangle each other.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Political

• When I start to write and record a track, I always think about where it is supposed to take place, what kind of room that is, and what kind of atmosphere it should have. Also how it should be performed, and by what kind of musicians or vocalists. I work in a very theatrically minded sort of way.

  

  Fever Ray
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Musician

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

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Thinking
  • Knows