Folks Quotes · Page 51

ALICE She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME And she grew so tall, She ate from a plate called TASTE ME…

— Shel Silverstein

Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very…

— Dorothy Parker

I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say…

— Yvette Nicole Brown

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance…

— Charlie Daniels

Well, look, let me put it this way. Back in 2005, when I was a freshman, I - I was the first…

— Henry Cuellar

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more…

— Brownie McGhee

If you ask for good schools, you aren't likely to get them. If you ask for jobs or economic investment, you won't…

— Michelle Alexander

At least in popular parlance, what makes religious folks religious today is not so much that they believe in Jesus' divinity or…

— Stephen Prothero

I got a flash of ... what it means, now, 'you can't be too rich or too thin.' How well it works,…

— Elana Dykewomon

[James Comey] should have gone to the Public Integrity section and said 'What do you folks think.' It's a little bit of…

— William Weld

I love the donors and we thank them, but it has to be that the guys in the barber shop, the lady…

— Keith Ellison

Obviously in the Senate we have all types of different people, all kinds of different folks that have come from all types…

— Mark Pryor

You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the…

— David Edelstein

Here comes the pope saying, "Well, that may be true about Cruz, but you build walls, and we Christians don't do that.…

— Rush Limbaugh

There are still many homeless trans folk wandering the streets. They are still harassed on the street by bystanders and police officers.…

— Chelsea Manning

I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our…

— David Crosby

It was 1988, I believe, that I met Grit. We were both appearing in a Canadian Folk Festival and as we sat…

— Tom Chapin

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up,…

— Mel Tillis

There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when…

— Anonymous

...Fan fiction is a way of the culture repairing the damage done in a system where contemporary myths are owned by corporations…

— Henry Jenkins

[Vernon Jordan] and [Bill] Clinton would be in the same golf cart, they'd been out there playing golf, and every other word,…

— Rush Limbaugh

Folk music has a sort of a bubbling-under quality. The stream runs through the cultural consciousness, and whether or not it's on…

— Mary Travers

Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of…

— Auberon Waugh

Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier…

— Barack Obama

If some of these [Republican] folks were around when Columbus set sail, they must have been founding members of the 'flat earth…

— Barack Obama

I go wild on a stage. Some folks have measured us an image. They pretend us to be saints. And that image…

— Donnie Wahlberg

Watch what's going to happen, folks. It's not going to be pretty.This includes her [Hillary Clinton] plan to bring in 620,000 new…

— Donald Trump

Absolutely, federal health care options in Congress should mirror those offered in the private sector. If these options are not available in…

— Rob Woodall

I was loved as a kid; I was raised with more love and emotional support than most folks could wish for my…

— Johnny Vegas

I'm having a good time, Please don't blame me, I'm knocking myself out Don't try to tame me Let me have my…

— Alberta Hunter

Conspiracies, since they cannot be engaged in without the fellowship of others, are for that reason most perilous; for as most men…

— Francesco Guicciardini

Anyway, as the old barrelhouse song says, My God, how the money rolled in. Norton must have subscribed to the old Puritan…

— Stephen King

Folks out in the country couldn't afford to pay for anybody else to make music. They had to make their own. So…

— Pete Seeger

Craft is not a category; it's a means. The folks running the museum [Museum of Arts and Design]are sharp, and they know…

— Jerry Saltz

Comedians have varying levels of training. It can range from classically trained actors (like Robin Williams) to people who took comedy classes…

— Ted Alexandro

Maybe the reason some folks lag behind in our free enterprise system is because they depend too much on the free part…

— William Greider

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