Folks famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
-- Adam McKay -
Well, folks. That's the greatest open in the history of television -- bar none!
-- Al Michaels -
Someone asked me years ago if it were true that I disliked Jews, and I replied that it was certainly true, not at all because they are Jews, but because they are folks, and I don’t like folks.
-- Albert J. Nock -
there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.
-- Alice Hegan Rice -
I don't really know what 'folk music' means anymore.
-- Amos Lee -
I have always been an independent voice for the folks in my district.
-- Ann Kirkpatrick -
When millions of Americans are tightening their belts, folks have the right to expect their elected officials to do the same.
-- Ann Kirkpatrick -
I think good publicists are just like good mommies - always looking out, making sure folks are comfortable and making sure that folks are on time and making sure that folks are getting what they need and know what they need to do.
-- Ava DuVernay -
Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
-- Bernard Lown -
You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
-- Bernie Sanders -
If you told the truth, that was all well and good and if you told the un-truth, well, that's still well and good. Folk songs had taught me that.
-- Bob Dylan -
I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?
-- Bobby Cannavale -
What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.
-- Bono -
Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.
-- Brent Musburger -
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
-- Brownie McGhee -
The models for me were more the folk-rock singers of the '60s and '70s.
-- Carly Simon -
I'm asking regular folks to be my super PAC.
-- Claire McCaskill -
Earth shall be fair, and all her folk be one!
-- Clifford Bax -
Folks in their 60s and 80s are reinventing how older people live.
-- David Oliver Relin -
The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
-- Edward Abbey -
I reckon there's as much human nature in some folks as there is in others, if not more.
-- Edward Noyes Westcott -
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.
-- Elbert Hubbard -
Folks want to be listened to, they want to be heard.
-- Erik Qualman -
I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.
-- Frank Howard Clark -
Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.
-- Gayla Reid -
It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.
-- Gene Stratton-Porter -
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.
-- Gloria Borger -
...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.
-- Harper Lee -
Folks don't like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.
-- Harper Lee -
John Edwards comes from working folk, just like me. John Edwards worked hard and excelled to get his education, just like me.
-- Harvey Gantt -
It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
-- Herman Cain -
Dealing with race is about educating white folks.
-- Howard Dean -
This is the fast lane, folks...and some of us like it here.
-- Hunter S. Thompson -
Tis a sure sign work goes on merrily, when folks sing at it.
-- Isaac Bickerstaffe -
As black folks we're always sensitive. As a black person it's always racial.
-- Jamie Foxx -
What is it with folks always talking about where they're from? You could grow up in a muddy ditch, but if it's your muddy ditch, then it's gotta be the swellest muddy ditch ever.
-- Jennifer L. Holm -
Missionaries are very human folks, simply a bunch of nobodies trying to exalt somebody.
-- Jim Elliot -
The poor folk gladly came to me, for I did them no unkindness, but helped them as much as I could.
-- Joan of Arc -
I have a deep rooted folk sensibility that I can't get away from completely.
-- Joanna Newsom -
When folks git ole en strucken wid de palsy, dey mus' speck ter be laff'd at.
-- Joel Chandler Harris -
Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music..
-- John Betjeman -
You know, old folks can have dreams, too, as well as young folks, and then work toward them. And to have a dream like this come true for me is just a terrific experience.
-- John Glenn -
Some folks they take to living fast while some prefer a slow death.
-- John Hiatt -
Nowadays, business is all about productivity - and our folks produce.
-- John Hoeven -
It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.
-- John Marston -
God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.
-- Joshilyn Jackson -
It never ceases to amaze me how many folks jump right over "I'll try" to "I can't.
-- Julia Spencer-Fleming -
To the folks walking around the District of Columbia, I would say this: 'Be careful.
-- Kal Penn -
Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.
-- Kate Douglas Wiggin -
Remember, folks, I am a comedian, not a journalist.
-- Kathy Griffin -
Folks that blurt out just what they think wouldn't be so bad if they thought.
-- Kin Hubbard -
When some folks agree with my opinions I begin to suspect I'm wrong.
-- Kin Hubbard -
Plain spoken people get most of the recognition because folks are afraid of them.
-- Kin Hubbard -
Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.
-- Kin Hubbard -
The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
-- Kirby Larson -
Folks are like plants; we all lean towards the light.
-- Kris Carr -
Norman, Okla. That's where my folks live, so it's home to me.
-- Kristin Chenoweth -
The object of all education is to make folks fit to live.
-- Laura Ingalls Wilder -
Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.
-- Lewis Black -
I always thought I was singing American folk music.
-- Lonnie Donegan -
I am like a folk painter. Paint and move ahead.
-- M. F. Husain -
Only ways you can keep folks hating is to keep them apart and separated from each other.
-- Margaret Walker -
I love to see folks use reason if they have got any ...
-- Marietta Holley -
My idea of heaven is a place where the Tyne meets the Delta, where folk music meets the blues.
-- Mark Knopfler -
I don't really remember my folks singing to us, but they read to us.
-- Mary Chapin Carpenter -
Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition.
-- Mary Travers -
It's the folks that depend on us for this and for the other that we most do miss.
-- Mary Webb -
Life itself was hard enough without monosynaptic sociopaths preying on folks.
-- Michael A. Stackpole -
I like a lot of soul, but I also put a lot of folk into what I do.
-- Michael Kiwanuka -
[...] the only folks who kill black folks any more are black folks. [...] black folks kill more black folks than the KKK ever did.
-- Michael Nutter -
Punk is just as much a form of folk music as anything is!
-- Michelle Shocked -
The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk
-- Nelson Mandela -
Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
-- Norman Rockwell -
If it was never new and it never gets old, then it's a folk song
-- Oscar Isaac -
You can't force folks to have good sense, even if they're family. Maybe especially then.
-- Patricia C. Wrede -
I don't really think of myself as a folk singer.
-- Ray LaMontagne -
Folks, do you agree with me that we cannot afford four more years of Barack Obama?
-- Rob Portman -
I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.
-- Robert Wyatt -
What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before.
-- Robin Williams -
Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.
-- Rush Limbaugh -
Folks, I've been straight for seventeen days... Not all in a row.
-- Sam Kinison -
We let folks know we're interested in them and that they're vital to us. cause they are.
-- Sam Walton -
White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
-- Son House -
Most folks call them green onions, but they're really scallions.
-- Stan Freberg -
Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.
-- Steve Forbert
