Folks Quotes · Page 5

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

— Martin Mull

I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money,…

— Mick Mulvaney

It always blows me away when I see people freak out because I've changed my mind on something. I'm not an elected…

— Joe Quesada

Democrats, folks, only have five states where they have the governorship and the state legislature.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Ani DiFranco

That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the…

— Robyn Davidson

I want to stick around with the big boys. I don't want to be in the old folks home.

— Michael Caine

Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folk; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of…

— Terry Pratchett

I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me…

— M. C. Escher

I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.

— Ann Kirkpatrick

Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going…

— Shams Tabrizi

I guess all songs is folk songs. I never heard no horse sing them.

— Big Bill Broonzy

This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.

— Hunter S. Thompson

Printed prose is historically a most peculiar, almost an aberrant way of telling stories, and by far the most inherently anesthetic: It…

— John Barth

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways…

— Charles Burnett

I find it not just strange but almost ridiculous that people could take a song like the one I was doing and…

— Gil Scott-Heron

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

— Benjamin Franklin

One of the songs that stayed in my head that I really considered a lot was an old folk song called 'John…

— Quentin Tarantino

You go to school everyday. Folks who think they've learned everything they need to know are usually dumber than chickens.

— Jodi Thomas

I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald…

— Erk Russell

Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

— Adam McKay

We'll really have a party, but we gotta put a guard outside, if the folks come home I'm afraid they gonna have…

— Eddie Cochran

The greatest influence for good comes from those quiet folks who make morals, not moralizing, their vocation.

— Lawrence Reed

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from…

— Joel Plaskett

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

— David Shuster