Folks Quotes
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Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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I knew I wanted to be in comedy but the path of least resistance was doing stand-up in folk music clubs where I could get on stage. I guess you could get up no matter how bad you were and you didn't have to audition. You just got up. Everything else required an audition and if you auditioned for a TV show, you would stand in line with a hundred other people. But at the clubs, it was okay just to get up, so that's why I started in stand-up.
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Pride goes before a fall, they say, And yet we often find, The folks who throw all pride away Most often fall behind.
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I prefer her [Nina Simone's] jazz period much more so than her folk period.
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Most folks don't know about it. But I thought it was worth a shot, as I could direct my fans to it via my Web site.
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It's wanting that gets so many folks in trouble.
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To the folks that continue to support through ups and downs... good and bad... I can't thank you...
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Another crucial thing the tea party did really well is to focus in on the folks who are more or less on your side, and make sure they are as bold as possible.
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There are two types of folk music: quiet folk music and loud folk music. I play both.
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A lot of folks just get it in their head that, for instance, like writing memoirs is just easy. You just write down what happened. It doesn't quite work that way.
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Folks in the bottom half of the economy are already squeezed hard. They will be bloodied and bankrupt if economic policy inadvertently induces a recession.
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Hip-hop is the last true folk art.
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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.
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Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.
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There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
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I got off a plane today at the airbase and I met a whole bunch of military folks there waiting to see me, they all made reference to my son and his military service and expressed their condolences. And although it's still kind of an open wound, it gave me a sense of strength knowing they all meant it.
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But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.
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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.
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Folks in the media ask at the behest of Democrats, "isn't it insensitive for us to do a Second Amendment rally following this terror attack?" Let me tell you something. I really don't view our job as being sensitive to Islamic terrorists.
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When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.
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I would be embarrassed to tell you how many folks ran saying that they weren't going to spend a bunch of money, they weren't going to raise the debt ceiling, and then they went to Washington, D.C., and did exactly that.
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The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
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Some of life's biggest and most positive changes are propelled by mini conspiracies of a few well-meaning folks.
