Dolly Parton Quotes

You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Free
  • Myself

• In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Good
  • Different
  • Better

• Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.

  

  Ed Oxenbould
  • Acting
  • Living
  • Creating

• I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhood because I wasn't there.'

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Want
  • Look
  • Successful

• People are incredible creatures of habit.

  

  Sam Altman
  • People
  • Habit
  • Creatures

• You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Know
  • Everyone
  • Mythology

• The two things you cannot do effectively on stage are pray and copulate.

  

  Orson Welles
  • You
  • Stage
  • Two

• Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

  

  E. T. A. Hoffmann
  • Experience
  • Man
  • Earth

• This is what love is, he thought. Doing what you don't want to do, because she needs it so much. And it isn't that bad. And it isn't that hard.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Bad

• When Croft's 'Life of Dr. Young' was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, 'No, no,' said he, 'it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration.'

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Life
  • Inspiration
  • Strength

• I'm afraid you gave up the right to pontificate on social mobility when you abolished educational maintenance allowance EMA, trebled tuition fees and betrayed a generation of young people.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • People
  • Up

• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Law
  • Suffering
  • Hero

• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Real

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• Schiller writes in a letter to Goethe, 17 December 1795 of a ‘poetic mood’. I think I know what he means, I think I am familiar with it myself. It is the mood of receptivity to nature and one in which one’s thoughts seem as vivid as nature itself.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Nature
  • Thoughts
  • Mood

• Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but rather memory.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• No hero in your tragedy,No daring in your escape,No salutes for your surrender,Nothing noble in your fate,Christ, what have you done? - The Pass (1989)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Done
  • Hero
  • Fate

• That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.

  

  Lewis Mumford

• The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

  

  Bob Feller
  • Hero

• My illness has changed me - I've always thought "life is short and I wanna make as much of it as I can," but I really don't have time to mess around. This has really been a wake-up call in terms of what's important, and I'm working hard to figure that out. I need to get better at not doing favors for people all the time. It's hard because there's so many people who have helped me get to the point where I'm in a band that people wanna come see, or where people pay money to see me lecture.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Important
  • Changed

• I learned there's a tremendous amount of sisterhood among Muslim women, which I thought was really beautiful.

  

  Nia Long
  • Women
  • Beautiful
  • Amount

• I love kids. I always have. I was an only child until I was 12, and then my sister arrived.

  

  Lorenza Izzo
  • Kids
  • Sister

• Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Mind
  • Tree
  • Spring

• You are the song of every bird, you are the poet's every word, every artist's picture, every writer's play.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Song
  • Bird
  • Profound