"I remain totally convinced that if we..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“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.”

“Being a star just means that you just find your own special place and that you shine where you are. To me that's what being a star means.”

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

“For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.”

“The cardinal virtue of a teacher [is] to protect the pupil from his own influence.”

“A system of general instruction, which shall reach every description of our citizens, from the richest to the poorest, as it was the earliest, so will it be the latest, of all the public concerns in which I shall permit myself to take an interest.”

“Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.”

“It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt.”

“Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself.”