Dolly Parton Quotes

“In Dallas for the premier of '9 to 5', I had an uncanny experience, and on the plane home to Chicago I confessed it to Siskel: I had been granted a private half hour with Dolly Parton, and as we spoke I was filled with a strange ethereal grace. This was not spiritual, nor was it sexual. It was healing and comforting. Gene listened and said, "Roger, I felt the exact same thing during my interview with her." We looked at each other. What did this mean? Neither one of us ever felt that feeling again. From time to time we would refer to it in wonder.”
― Roger Ebert, Life Itself

“It's over," Keelie said.

Too bad. But I want you to know, I will always love you."

She narrowed her eyes and said, "When you look at me and say that, are you thinking of Dolly Parton or Whitney Houston?"

Burt Reynolds," he said.

She nearly spit out her coffee when she laughed, then she said, "That almost makes me want to try again.”
― Becky Cochrane, A Coventry Christmas

“I think of country radio like a great lover: you were nice to me, you gave me a lot of cool stuff, and then you dumped my ass for another woman.”
― Dolly Parton, Dream More

“A bird & a fish can fall in love, but where do they make a home?”
― Dolly Parton

“Microdoses of nourishing, pleasurable habits spread through the other areas of your life like rainbows at a Dolly Parton concert.”
― Sarah Hays Coomer, The Habit Trip: A Fill-in-the-Blank Journey to a Life on Purpose

“If you love peanut butter pie, you are either Dolly Parton or someone who loves her.”
― Kate Lebo, A Commonplace Book of Pie

“Me and God have a great relationship, but we're both seeing other people.”
― Dolly Parton

“Mary the Canary lives in a cloud of perfume and colours. She's an auxiliary nurse by day and a country and western singer by night: bed pans and power ballass. She's so glamorous she makes Mrs Hart look plain. She is the other woman and I'm bring trained to hate her even though I've never met her.”
― Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
― Dolly Parton

“I think those who choose to bully just don't know how to handle somebody different from themselves (Coat of Many Colors).”
― Dolly Parton

“I call Dolly Parton The Lady of Country Music because she sings quite like the lark that stirs the silhouettes of early morning risings to secret alarm, loud but silent. I advocate her ditties for earth’s hackneyed choirs, when upon heaven’s epochal list of the supremely engraved, she earns her voice as graciously as she lent it.”
― Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“I think those who choose to bully just don't know how to handle somebody different from themselves.”
― Dolly Parton, Coat of Many Colors

“I drove in slowly, with my bright red car blaring Whitney Houston. On the radio, in the air. I didn’t love Whitney Houston but she sure could sing Dolly’s old sweet song, “I Will Always Love You.” I wanted to feel that way. I just didn’t know who I could feel that way about.”
― Ann Rower, Lee & Elaine (Semiotext