Folks Quotes · Page 24

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

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.

— Euripides

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

— Stephen King

We're going to build a wall, folks. We're going to build a wall. That wall will go up so fast, your head…

— Donald Trump

The best work for creative folks on the team is when the problem is big and the solution escapes everyone.

— Steven Sinofsky

For the devil is better pleased with coarse blockheads and with folks who are useful to nobody; because where such characters abound,…

— Martin Luther

I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's…

— Neil Farber

As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music…

— Ted Leo

Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n'…

— Bonnie Raitt

I'm bred for farm work, and for such folk, the only A's you get come from effort. Strife and strain are all…

— Mary Karr

My folks were country music performers. They made records and even did a few tours with the Grand Ole Opry. There always…

— Lenny Breau

I was reading emails from women who are alternately chuckling or outraged. One of them said, "Do you hate women? Would you…

— Rush Limbaugh

What kind of life are you leading where you consider ketchup fancy? "Well, we ain't rich folk, but on special occasions, I'll…

— Jim Gaffigan

A very good friend of mine spent a fair amount of time doing postmortems and met with a number of the senior…

— Ted Cruz

When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and…

— Alan Keyes

Bill Monroe spoke of bringing 'ancient tones' into his music with echoes of British and Irish fiddle and bagpipe music, while also…

— Paul Zollo

My folks made me a Jawa costume for the Halloween after 'Star Wars' opened in '77. In '78, when it was re-released,…

— Dee Bradley Baker

Until we can insert a USB into our ear and download our thoughts, drawing remains the best way of getting visual information…

— Grayson Perry

I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks,…

— Stephen Colbert

Listen up. Rant would tell people: ‘You’re a different human being to everybody you meet.’ Sometimes Rant said, ‘You only ever is…

— Chuck Palahniuk

As a Black woman filmmaker I feel that’s my job: visibility. And my preference within that job is Black subjectivity. Meaning I’m…

— Ava DuVernay

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

— Marilyn Manson

We souls on foot, with foot-folk meet: For we that cannot hope to ride For ease or pride, have fellowship.

— William Barnes

It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world.

— L. Frank Baum

In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long…

— William Shakespeare

The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.

— Joan of Arc

If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.

— Steven Sinofsky

When we hire someone, even if they are going to be in marketing, I will have them talk to the design folks…

— Steve Jobs

If you're going to talk about politics, then there are going to be folks who are with you and folks that are…

— Adina Porter

Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.

— Toni Cade Bambara

Remember folks, fish are like relatives. After two days, they stink.

— Bobby Heenan

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

— Josh Billings

Photography is the dominant and fascinating and only authentic folk art of the twentieth century.

— John Rothenstein

I grew up listening to spiritual music, Blind Willie Johnson and folk.

— Ben Harper

A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like "Delia's Gone" and do a modern white man's version of…

— Johnny Cash

It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any.

— Voltaire

I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.

— Ani DiFranco