Top 26 Folksy Quotes

#1. Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

Tom Bodett

Folksy Quotes #226616
#2. I was a big and un-ironic fan of Dear Abby when I was a kid in Chicago. I think I sort of internalized her. So I have this inner Abby: cranky, proper, folksy yet scathing, with a beehive hairdo. But that's my issue.

George Saunders

Folksy Quotes #240958
#3. Be happy to, I said, cringing to hear such a dumb, folksy locution escape my lips, then launched into my well-rehearsed precis. The fact that humankind now finds itself in a post-Darwinian epistemological condition, I explained, need not trouble us from an ethical perspective.

James K. Morrow

Folksy Quotes #341504
#4. Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

Matisyahu

Folksy Quotes #357184
#5. I just wish all these young black kids would realize how significant it is to stop acting a fool out there, killing each other, not getting their education. You know, people have died to put us in a situation to be successful.

Charles Barkley

Folksy Quotes #552123
#6. I've met seven homeschooling families through many, many extracurricular activities such as fencing. I don't have a point of view of homeschooling. For some families, homeschooling works.

Rebecca Stead

Folksy Quotes #643222
#7. There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents

A. Lee Martinez

Folksy Quotes #646585
#8. I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.

Joel Kinnaman

Folksy Quotes #686006
#9. The pronunciation of both Sami and Portuguese languages is strikingly similar: the Portuguese evolved from folksy Latin while the Sami evolved from reindeers' howling.

Arto Paasilinna

Folksy Quotes #716820
#10. For who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

Peter Ackroyd

Folksy Quotes #846965
#11. There's a reason [Donald]Trump and [Ted] Cruz are one and two and that they take nearly 50 percent of the Republican electorate away in these polls because there's real palpable anger out there and frustration and a feeling of betrayal.

Sean Hannity

Folksy Quotes #912292
#12. Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.

Cory Booker

Folksy Quotes #912441
#13. Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

Nancy Mairs

Folksy Quotes #994381
#14. What are you eating?" he ask us.
"Whatever won't kill me, please" I said.
"Whatever don't kill you'll make you stronger" says Eddie, who is always ready with folksy wisdom.
"All right," I say. "Then give me whatever will make me stronger."
"One pizza, coming up.

Adam Selzer

Folksy Quotes #995475
#15. Cleanses and products don't make you look more beautiful. They certainly help, but if you reach contentment, you're set. My makeup artist, Melanie Iglesias, couldn't figure out why my skin looks so good. I think it's because I'm happy!

Olivia Wilde

Folksy Quotes #1053455
#16. When the Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century brought a rapid increase in wealth, the demand of workers for a fair share of the wealth they were creating was conceded only after riots and strikes.

John Boyd Orr

Folksy Quotes #1081082
#17. Obama's folksy come-on is as bad as Madonna's faux British - and both are in need of fresh inspiration.

Camille Paglia

Folksy Quotes #1089426
#18. Howard Roark stood as a role model for me - as exactly the way I already was living. Even at that tender age [18] I already felt that. And it was intuitive or instinctive or inbred stubbornness or whatever; but I had already made those choices and suffered for them.

Neil Peart

Folksy Quotes #1122739
#19. The world would be a better place if people stopped voting for folksy candidates they could have a beer with and started voting for people smarter than they are.

Marcus Sakey

Folksy Quotes #1147884
#20. Paull has his own style, which is folksy, not canned.
Religion? He's got one. His prophet's Ayn Rand.
By Rand's eerie theories he's fervently gripped,
So he won't do flip-flops. He long ago flipped.

Calvin Trillin

Folksy Quotes #1163476
#21. But at the end of every show we would realize that true happiness often lies where you very least expect it. It might arrive in a form of a gentle breeze or a handful of peanuts, but when it came, we would seize it with our own brand of folksy wisdom.

David Sedaris

Folksy Quotes #1292609
#22. Ronald Reagan had many fine qualities and he had many shortcomings. He's not the simple, folksy figure that he's often portrayed as.

Eugene Jarecki

Folksy Quotes #1325733
#23. The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

Ben Katchor

Folksy Quotes #1341019
#24. From 1985 to 1994, I lived in Manhattan in a big old loft right off Times Square. I could walk to work, which was in a couple of Broadway theaters, to Howard Stern's studio, and to 30 Rock for 'Letterman' and 'SNL.' Even in New York, walking to work is homey and folksy, like living in a small town.

Penn Jillette

Folksy Quotes #1445803
#25. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Sheffield

Folksy Quotes #1584583
#26. I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter.

Chelsea Clinton

Folksy Quotes #1651061

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