Folks Quotes

1336 Folks quotes by 922 unique authors

You can't trust folk songs. They always sneak up on you. — Terry Pratchett
She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks. — David Foster Wallace
[P]ride is something only folk with money can afford. — Tamora Pierce
Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms… — Tamora Pierce
Folks, I don't trust children. They're here to replace us. — Stephen Colbert
Free folk don't follow names, or little cloth animals sewn on a tunic," the King-Beyond-the-Wall had told him. "They won't dance for coins, they don't… — George R. R. Martin
George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies,… — George Harrison
These folk are hewers of trees and hunters of beasts; therefore we are their unfriends, and if they will not depart we shall afflict them… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Time and experience have taught me that fame and money very rarely go to the worthy, by the way - hence we shouldn't ever be… — Bear Grylls
Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine. Annabeth keeps telling… — Rick Riordan
This is what Jesus had in mind: folks coming together, forming close-knit communities and meeting each other's needs-- no kings, no major welfare systems, no… — Shane Claiborne
Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine,… — Aldo Leopold
It isn't what we are, but what folks think we are, that counts in this world. — L. Frank Baum
Pixar is seen by a lot of folks as an overnight success, but if you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time. — Steve Jobs
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor
I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of… — Catherynne M. Valente
Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they… — Catherynne M. Valente
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk,… — Catherynne M. Valente
It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any. — Voltaire
There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk… — J.R.R. Tolkien
Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad… — J.R.R. Tolkien
We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things. — J.R.R. Tolkien
He’s being held prisoner on a ceramic-lined cookie sheet in the oven,” Thomas said. “I figured he couldn’t jigger his way out of a bunch… — Jim Butcher
There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world. — Stephen King
You could look out the window today, see the sky raining fire, and say that it has all been for nothing, everything we've ever done,… — Laini Taylor

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