Folks Quotes · Page 19

I was involved in the Great Folk Music scare back in the sixties, when it almost caught on.

— Martin Mull

I try to make my music have the quiet spaces of folk, the intimacy, and the energy of rock.

— Jane Siberry

Everyday I meet folks who show me how to look at challenges differently.

— Daryn Kagan

And no book gives a deeper insight into the inner life of the Negro, his struggles and his aspirations, than, The Souls…

— Ray Stannard Baker

Your folks are god, you love them and you want to make them happy but you still want to make up your…

— Chuck Palahniuk

I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.

— Nikki Giovanni

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

— Barack Obama

As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.

— Jamie Foxx

Me and my friends get together all the time for girls night, or watch rock of love on the couch. I end…

— Tristan Prettyman

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to…

— Hill Harper

I think I will just use guitar as backing. I'm not doing a traditional folk thing, but a contemporary thing-my own version…

— Cat Stevens

You white folks have long been eating the white meat of the chicken. We Negroes are now ready for some of the…

— Mary McLeod Bethune

The secret of a successful art career is to make more art that folks think they need than pieces they just want.…

— Jack White

Comic scripts are full-on collaborations, not only with your artist, but your editors and colorists and letterers and PR folks, etc. Writing…

— Duane Swierczynski

I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the people are good folks. The rest…

— Jeff Foxworthy

It’s not that they’re small, the fair folk. Especially not the queen of them all, Mab of the flashing eyes and the…

— Neil Gaiman

Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just…

— Arthur Ashe

Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Be your kid's collaborative partner, but also be a collaborative partner with the folks at school. Schools can be pretty unilateral too.…

— Ross W. Greene

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were…

— Chuck Palahniuk

If you're willing to put in the work, the idea is that you should be able to raise a family and own…

— Barack Obama

It was Hurricane Sandy that not only decimated parts of my district but pushed me to the brink of my frustrations with…

— Jon Runyan

The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems.…

— Elbert Hubbard

In desperate times, much more than anything else, folks need perspective. For perspective brings calm. Calm leads to clear thinking. Clear thinking…

— Andy Andrews

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

— Sean Paul

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk…

— Bono

All Ballets' fundamental steps are derived from the folk dances of Western Europe.

— Ninette de Valois

I decided that I'm not going to pound my fist anymore at those folks and at laws that I can't change.

— Larry Gatlin

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that…

— Bryce Dessner

Fox and I go way back... I got to know the Fox folks pretty well as the result of spending time at…

— Mike Schultz

My folks, I don't think my mom or my dad ever missed a little league game or a football game.

— Jim Ross

Art teaches us to see into things. Folk art and kitsch allow us to see outward from within things.

— Walter Benjamin

But in my life, the vast majority of people that have really afforded me the opportunity to succeed were white folks.

— Tim Scott

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

— Frank A. Clark

The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

Being in space, I'm really looking forward to working with this team of folks that I'm with.

— Duane G. Carey

I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks.

— Harper Lee

I sing a mixture of everything from opera, folk music, Broadway. It's a mix of things.

— Katherine Jenkins

Of course the Devil is laughing at folks for believing it [Big Bang, etc.]. But hey, it works, it sends 'em to…

— Kent Hovind

There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president.

— Barack Obama