Dolly Parton Quotes

I love watching keep-fit videos while munching chocolate chip cookies.

You don't need to buy expensive cosmetics; almost anything will do if you know how to apply it.

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

Mine is only one of the millions of hearts broken over the death of Whitney Houston. I will always be grateful and in awe of the wonderful performance she did on my song and I can truly say from the bottom of my heart, 'Whitney, I will always love you. You will be missed.'

I think everyone should be with who they love. I don't want to be controversial or stir up a bunch of trouble but people are going to love who they are going to love. I think gay couples should be allowed to marry. They should suffer just like us heterosexuals. Ha ha ha!

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

Depression runs in my family on both sides, and I have to be wary.

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.

If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

[On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes.

As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. There's many of them!

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

I think that I know the value of a dollar.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'

Money is like the tide: It rolls in and it rolls out. If you clutch it, you are not going to keep it.

...everyone's life is different, and everyone's journey is different.

The music does bring us together and it's cheaper than therapy!

I'll be wearing my high heels, even if I'm up to my knees in mud

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.

Dream more, learn more, care more, and be more.

If we all climb together, we could climb the highest hill.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

I will never retire unless I have to.

People tend to fear what they do not know, and what they fear they dislike.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.

The world is my stage. I try to be good at it, whatever part I'm playing - even in my daily life or when the spotlight hits me on the stage to perform - I gotta be alive every second in this world. With or without the applause!

A tree reaches below the surface to gather strength for stargazing.

Every day I pray about all I do.

It's not easy being young. It's hard to know what to do.

When I have sex with my husband, I fantasize I am with a petite, hot young woman.

I never have changed in my taste, and the things that I love, and the way that I act, and all that. I never wanted to change, I just wanted to be successful, and be able to do more things for more people, and for myself as well.

I never could get my hair to do what I wanted it to do, so I started wearing the wigs. It all came from a very serious place. I wanted to look a certain way.

I can write a song in about an hour if it's a simple country song.

I just don't have time to get old!

Energy begets energy.

Sometimes I start with a great title or idea, sometimes a great melody will run through my mind; but the higher percentage of the time, the words and music pretty much come at the same time.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

I love thinking, I love coming up with great ideas. I just get excited. Sometimes if I get a big idea, I'm just like a kid, like I've found a new toy.

I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am.

I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.

I'm just a simple country girl.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher. It was a sin to even pluck your eyebrows, and they thought it was a sin for me to be there looking like Jezebel.

The freewill you have given, we have made a mockery of.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.