Dolly Parton Quotes
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I often get myself in love trouble because I'm so passionate; I love so much and so deep.
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My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.
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No matter what, I always make it home for Christmas. I love to go to my Tennessee Mountain Home and invite all of my nieces and nephews and their spouses and kids and do what we all like to do - eat, laugh, trade presents and just enjoy each other... and sometimes I even dress up like Santa Claus!
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I've always kinda been a little outcast myself, a little oddball, doin' my thing, my own way. And it's been hard for me to, to be accepted, certainly in the early years of my life.
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I'm very open with my business partners, just like I am with my husband.
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[On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.
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I'm very short, so I just have to watch my weight because I have a big appetite.
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I'm not sixty, I'm "sexty.
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I want to be like one of those little fainting goats that get scared and then just fall over. I want to go and go and then drop dead in the middle of something I'm loving to do. And if that doesn't happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I'll have my high heels on.
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They say somebody's 'street smart.' I feel like, if I got intelligence, it's just a country smart.
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I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.
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I know it's corny - but I love 'Jingle Bells!'
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It seems like the more I give the more I get, and that is the way it is supposed to go in life.
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I will never retire unless I have to.
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In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.
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I never have thought I was beautiful and I never can get beautiful enough. I'm always doing whatever I can to look as good as I can, nipping and tucking if necessary. When you're older, you probably look more bizarre to people. But I don't care. I'm just totally convinced that it's more important that I be happy with me.
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I’m trying my best to keep up with all this new technology and I surround myself with all these wonderful people that are in the know and kind of help me out with all that.
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The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!
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I'll never graduate from collagen.
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There are some loony people in this world!
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I look like a woman, but I think like a man.
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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 I'd married someone in show business, there'd be too much competition.
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Love is something sent from Heaven to worry the Hell out of you.