41 Quotes by Dinah Shore

Tennis is like a wonderful, longstanding relationship with a husband. Golf is a tempestuous, lousy lover; it’s totally unpredicatable, a constant surprise.

I’d like people to remember that I really tried everything within my range of reality. And that whatever I did, I did with all my heart.

When I was four or five, my father had a general store in Winchester and I don’t think the farmers could ever leave on Saturday afternoon until I had been placed up on the counter to sing.

Emmys are wonderful and I’m thrilled to death that I have mine. But they’re representative of a specific achievement, where this sort of thing is representative of how you’ve grown in your own industry.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music – they are music.

Trouble is part of your life.

It’s a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you’ve started your day right.

I owe everything – my success and happiness – to men.

I’m not really a country singer, although I did make a couple albums and love its simple, straight-from-the-heart approach, but I have always sung a lot of jazz, show tunes, pop tunes, gospel and blues.