Folks Quotes · Page 25

When she smiles niggers ask her for her hand in marriage; when I smile folks check their wallets.

— Junot Diaz

When we moved back to the US, folk music was all the rage. So I traded in my banjo for a guitar.

— Michael Storm

Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves on the wrong side of the tidal wave.

— Mark Shuttleworth

Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.

— Kin Hubbard

It's so easy for folks to normalize their opinions, to engage in a groupthink that is damaging.

— Amitava Kumar

The dirty little secret, folks, is Obama is not only for occupying Wall Street. He also wants to occupy Main Street.

— Rush Limbaugh

Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.

— Linn Ullmann

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

— William Butler Yeats

So many folks in the venture capital business are sheep that just want to follow the herd. They are momentum investors purchasing…

— Fred Wilson

You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother every day.…

— Emilio Estevez

If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label to be…

— Joan Baez

You see only the productions of second-rate folk who are in a hurry to get wealth and fame. The true knowledge, the…

— John Buchan

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about governments failure to fix real problems.

— Jim Cooper

Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander…

— Marion Howard

Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality.…

— Barack Obama

You folks been following the big British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? I'm telling you, British Petroleum has put…

— David Letterman

Everyday, day & night, we hear the lies that September 11th is the worst tragedy, worst accident, and worst crime to ever…

— Malik Zulu Shabazz

When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks…

— Barack Obama

There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this…

— Barack Obama

When I was young, my mother [folk singer Kate McGarrigle] brought home this recording of Verdi's Requiem and we listened to it…

— Rufus Wainwright

Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in…

— Jeannette Walls

The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become…

— Robert Plant

Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has…

— Skylar Grey

With the Democrats, they see themselves, we see ourselves as the party of the working folks, the striving, you know, the good.…

— Van Jones

My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

— Alison Eastwood

Kurds are like fire, if approached kindly they will warm you, if approached badly they will burn you

— Leyla Zana

Listen, we've got one little ol' black president, and white folks are upset, but they've had 43.

— Paul Mooney

I was a Ukrainian folk dancer in my teens, and I toured the country in 1991, shortly before the break-up of the…

— Vera Farmiga

As I tell all our folks, the only reason we exist - make no mistake - is our clients.

— Ginni Rometty

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

I have a fundamental faith in folk, that people are interesting and good.

— Martin Firrell

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

— Eugene Chadbourne

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

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