Folks Quotes - Page 27

• We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well.

  Nikola Tesla

  Country, Hurt, Get Well

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was in a prayer meeting yesterday. You gotta appreciate how scared, how scares folks on that side of the equation are. From their vantage point -- I really shouldnt say their -- cause its mine too, we are nearly at the end of time and from our vantage point, were going to be I think maybe Chinese Water torture is going to be the means the method, once Prop 8 gets instated and once preachers are held at gunpoint and forced to marry the homosexuals, Im pretty sure that that will be the signal for Jesus to come on back.

  Michelle Shocked

  Jesus, Prayer, Mean

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• We were playing a festival in Dublin the other week. There was this other group, like, warming up in the next sort of chalet, and they were terrible. I said, 'Shut them cunts up!' And they were still warming up, so I threw a bottle at them. The bands said, 'That's the Sons of Mumford' or something. 'They're number five in charts!' I just thought they were a load of retarded Irish folk singers.

  Mark E. Smith

  Son, Numbers, Groups

  "The Fall's Mark E. Smith Attacks Mumford & Sons" by Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. October 20, 2010.

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• That odd idea that one person can go to a foreign part and in this rather odd voice describe it to the folks back home doesn't make much sense in the post-colonial world.

  Robyn Davidson

  Home, Ideas, Voice

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• When I left the theater… I was thinking that I’d seen a classic of American dance. It confers a mythic dimension on ordinary aspects of our daily lives – it’s unfaked folk art. The dancers, crashing wave upon wave into those falls, have a happy insane spirit that recalls a unique moment in American life – the time we did the school play or we were ready to drown at a swimming meet. The last time most of us were happy in that way.

  Arlene Croce

  Art, Fall, School

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• Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.

  Duane G. Carey

  Two, Space, Orbit

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• Readers of novels are a strange folk, upon whose probable or even possible tastes no wise book-maker would ever venture to bet.

  E. V. Lucas

  Wise, Book, Venture

  1932 Reading,Writing and Remembering, ch.1.

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• Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another.

  Sivananda

  Hate, Simple, World

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• People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.

  Idries Shah

  Running, Fashion, Men

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.15, Octagon Press Ltd

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• White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.

  Son House

  White, Blues Music, Singing The Blues

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• That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.

  Benh Zeitlin

  Religious, Art, Men

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• Anybody who runs for president in this country and comes out as strong as the Democrats were about helping the poor folks and black folks is not going to win.

  Charles Evers

  Running, Country, Strong

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• One reason that the task of inventing manners is so difficult is that etiquette is folk custom, and people have emotional ties to the forms of their youth. That is why there is such hostility between generations in times of rapid change; their manners being different, each feels affronted by the other, taking even the most surface choices for challenges.

  Judith Martin

  Emotional, Ties, People

  Judith Martin (1996). “Common courtesy: in which Miss Manners solves the problem that baffled Mr. Jefferson”

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• It always blows me away when I see people freak out because I've changed my mind on something. I'm not an elected official, folks. I didn't get my job by promising a bunch of things. I'm a businessman and a creator. If I don't have the ability to change my mind, if I don't have the ability to be open to different points of view, then I can't do this job properly.

  Joe Quesada

  Jobs, Blow, Views

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• Dead folks can't hurt you none. It's the ones that are alive, you have to watch out for.

  Grace Metalious

  Hurt, Watches, Alive

  Grace Metalious (2011). “Peyton Place”, p.35, UPNE

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• Folks, I've had the best seat in the house. Thanks for sharing it, I'll see you down the road.

  Brent Musburger

  House, Thanks, Down The Road

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• Well, I think every now and again, some people deserve
  to get their butts chewed.
  Every now and again some people deserve a pat on the back.
  What I try and do is compliment folk who deserve a compliment,
  and chew folks out who deserve to be chewed out.

  Mills Lane

  Thinking, People, Trying

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• This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.

  William Faulkner

  Country, Letters, Reading Books

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• Scarlett, from the ashes of the war-ravaged land at Tara, remembering what she was taught by her father in happier times: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, they're not going to lick me! I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again - no, nor any of my folks! If I have to lie, steal, cheat, or kill! As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again."

  Vivien Leigh

  Cheating, Father, War

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• Did you hear 'bout Ticklish Tom? He got tickled by his mom. Wiggled and giggled and fell on the floor, . . . . And all the more that he kept gigglin', All the more folks kept ticklin'. He shrieked and screamed and rolled around, Laughed his way right out of town. Through the country down the road, He got tickled by a toad. . . . . Giggling, rolling on his back He rolled on the railroad track. Rumble, rumble, whistle, roar- Tom ain't ticklish any more.

  Shel Silverstein

  Mom, Country, Laughter

  Shel Silverstein, “Ticklish Tom”

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• Las Vegas is a major family destination. Nevada casinos have become American family values now. It's considered just fine to go into one of these windowless scary gambling-malls, drink yourself silly, lose your ass at roulette, and then go ogle showgirls with breast implants. Republicans do this now. Working-class folks do it in polyester stretch pants. It's normal.

  Bruce Sterling

  Silly, Vegas, Gambling

  "Greetings from Burning Man!". www.wired.com. November 01, 1996.

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• They were written on cheap blue notebooks bought by poor women. I'm interested in folk tales in the way that medicine and magic in women's stories are all kind of combined.

  Alice Hoffman

  Notebook, Eye, Blue

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• Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

  Lying, Medicine, Patents

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• Our appreciation of folk art will strengthen our identities, our pride in belonging to a community. People trained in the creative use of their hands soon acquire skills, excellent craftsmanship which will be the most important measure of how well we can industrialize.

  F. Sionil José

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Art

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• If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree.

  Barack Obama

  Religious, Sincere, Condom

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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