Folks Quotes · Page 78

Well, at first the band were simply called Horsepower, but a lot of people thought that was something to do with heroin.…

— David Eugene Edwards

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings and complaints. If, on the contrary, you…

— Bruce Barton

Herein, folks, lies the answer of [Donald] Trump's success. In other words, the media covers things as stories that you would read…

— Rush Limbaugh

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.

— Edward Abbey

I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I…

— Paula Cole

Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind…

— Ilana Mercer

Folks, we are in the midst of dangerous times like you cannot believe, and Donald J. Trump is the target.

— Rush Limbaugh

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

— Sean Paul

If newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle…

— Eric Alterman

It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks…

— Sarah Orne Jewett

I am out to sing songs that will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit…

— Woody Guthrie

I believe God is doing a new thing in the world. God is always moving us to include more people in the…

— Gene Robinson

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be…

— Jimmy Page

I try to live [the Golden Rule] and I certainly expect it of some particular others. But I'll be damned if I…

— Toni Cade Bambara

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

— Clarence Darrow

I liked the American folk style of Woody Guthrie.

— Gordon Lightfoot

The large and rapid fortunes by which vulgar and ignorant people become possessed of splendid houses, splendidly furnished, do not of course,…

— Fanny Kemble

I've worked in the prison system for five years, and most of those folks in prison didn't have a direction.

— Stedman Graham

In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle, everyone's from…

— Lewis Black

Hard times are really a fire under your ass to prioritize and think, "Okay, how can I challenge myself to put something…

— Morgan Parker

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer…

— Patty Griffin

Some folks seem to have descended from the chimpanzee much later than others.

— Kin Hubbard

Our people were not happy. I knew at some point we were going to win. It's a little unfair, but that's the…

— Tom Osborne

The Lakers fans have been great, even folks in the supermarket are welcoming me back!

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Some of the newer folks in the industry, I'm not sure they are familiar with the term acting. They don't understand what…

— Kathleen Quinlan