Folks Quotes · Page 15

When I began working in not-for-profits, it was taking a vow of poverty, which eliminated huge numbers of folks.

— Geoffrey Canada

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

— Elvis Presley

What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.

— Robin Williams

Don't say yes until I've finished talking. - Attributed to many Hollywood executives Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.

— Kin Hubbard

I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.

— Edward Noyes Westcott

For every fatal shooting, there are about 3 non-fatal shootings. Folks, this is unacceptable in America.

— George W. Bush

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!!

— C. B. Cebulski

Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.

— John Hoeven

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the…

— Leo Kottke

The young folks that are coming into each of your services are anywhere from 17 to 22 or 23. Gee whiz, the…

— Saxby Chambliss

I see it as one of my jobs to make sure that, it sounds ridiculous, but to make sure the folks are…

— Duane G. Carey

My folks are economists and have taught economics and social science so I grew up with those kind of conversations around the…

— Seth Gordon

The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each…

— Jerome K. Jerome

Look, the bottom line is, folks: They [Democrats] are unified. Their single objective is taking us out. We do not have that.…

— Rush Limbaugh

I'm up here in Cleveland tonight and there are a lot of folks who are concerned about it. Twenty-five percent of the…

— Rob Portman

Certainly there is a depression I think a lot of Black folks are getting ready to have come January [2017] and that…

— Ed Gordon

You say that you people don’t burn folk and sacrifice people anymore, but that’s what true faith would mean, y’see? Sacrificin’ your…

— Terry Pratchett

When we really began executions rather than lynchings, black folks were 22% of our population in 1950, for instance, but they were…

— Shane Claiborne

When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on…

— Arlene Croce

Look, I'm just this kid from Toronto who got his start in school plays. I still live with my folks who make…

— Hayden Christensen

At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat…

— Mike Myers

My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and…

— Marco Rubio

The moral, then, is that familiar categories of behavior - marriage customs, food taboos, folk superstitions, and so on - certainly do…

— Steven Pinker

In addition, black folks need to attend green conferences, too. We just self-segregate and don't go. They might even waive your fee…

— Van Jones

Folks build a reputation by attacking you while you’re alive - or praising you after you ain’t.

— Chuck Palahniuk

The SA, that is the - shorthand, those are the storm troopers. Those are the folks who are commanded by Captain Ernst…

— Erik Larson

I have long admired Ron Whitehead. He is crazy as nine loons, and his poetry is a dazzling mix of folk wisdom…

— Hunter S. Thompson

You know there's some great folks, great story telling at 'Dateline,' and I'm glad to be a part of it.

— Lester Holt

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

— Maya Angelou

I was with a folk trio back in '63 and '64, and we traveled all across North Africa, Israel, and Europe.

— Creed Bratton

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

— Barack Obama

The folks who know the truth aren't talking… The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

— Tom Waits

It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.

— Julia Spencer-Fleming

Some folks hide, and some folks seek, and seeking, when it's mindless, neurotic, desperate, or pusillanimous can be a form of hiding.

— Tom Robbins

Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.

— Michael A. Stackpole

If you want to understand a nation, look at its dances and listen to its folk songs - don't pay any attention…

— Agnes de Mille

To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.

— Kal Penn

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

— Claire McCaskill

The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so.

— Josh Billings

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

— Cass McCombs