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
  • Successful
  • Look

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Publicly, we're saying we're better at fighting terrorism. Privately, we know that the bureaucracy has only gotten worse, since the high-level people are scared of being held responsible for 9/11.

  

  David Hunt
  • People
  • High
  • Fighting

• Dangerous because your present Administration and its specialized agencies by all accounts know no restraint in hitting out at any perceived enemy of America, and nobody or nothing can protect one from their vindictiveness.

  

  Breyten Breytenbach
  • America
  • Present
  • Enemy

• In 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,' I play a schoolteacher who is older than I am in life - and I like that.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Life

• People have a preconceived notion about who I am and it's interesting. It's like picking who you want to win for the Oscars and not seeing the movie. Before you make a statement about someone, get all the information and see everything before you make a judgment.

  

  Amanda Bynes
  • People
  • Movie
  • Interesting

• Your strike will not win. You cannot be allowed to succeed.

  

  James Callaghan

• Consciousness is the glory of creation.

  

  James Broughton

• Laura Bush is the same way. I mean, they both, um, understand, they understand the challenges of the moment and understand the responsibilities, he understands the responsibilities he has to protect the national security of America as well as the economic security of America.

  

  Donald Evans
  • America

• In high school, some of the guys were really into music. When I first joined the team as a sophomore, I was blown away when we came out for our first home match. I'm getting goose bumps just thinking about it. The seniors would bring their whole stereo system. We started by yelling and stuff inside this little room just off the gym; then the coaches said, "Ready. Go!" We threw open the door and came running out. Even when I hear the songs now I get all jacked up.

  

  Karch Kiraly
  • School
  • Home
  • Song

• 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