Yokels Quotes

#1. These local yokels couldn't find their own asses if you tattooed their names on each cheek.

Mark De Castrique

#2. Will Rogers ... used to come out with a newspaper and pretend he was a
yokel criticizing the intellectuals who ran the government. I come out with
a newspaper and pretend I'm an intellectual making fun of the yokels
running the government.

Mort Sahl

#3. The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis ... surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.

H.L. Mencken

#4. Gordon Gekko was right: greed is good. Because, the potty-trained Republicans have now stepped forward - like the Koch brothers - to say, 'You know what? You yokels stop talking about defaulting on the debt, because I'm going to lose a fortune!'

Bill Maher

#5. When a village ceases to be a community, it becomes oppressive in its narrow conformity. So one becomes an individual and migrates to the city. There, finding others like-minded, one re-establishes a village community. Nowadays only New Yorkers are yokels.

Paul Goodman

#6. Do you know what they teach you in Boy Scouts?"
I shake my head.
"Neither do I," he says. "I was kicked out after the second day for lighting shit on fire.

Karina Halle

#7. Parents, they're strict on you when you're little, and you don't understand why. But as you get older, you understand and you appreciate it.

Grant Hill

#8. Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. Thinking is the soul speaking to itself.

Rebecca Goldstein

#10. The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

Miguel De Cervantes

#11. The single greatest edge an investor can have is a long-term orientation.

Seth Klarman

#12. I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.

Zadie Smith

#13. I don't think there is too much art involved in what I do.

Giorgio Moroder

#14. I had the gift, and arrived at the technique
That called up spirits from the vasty deep...

Anthony Hecht

#15. The internet is a total inversion of television. It's the opposite.

Joel Hodgson

#16. I've always been excited at the idea of performing a solo show.

Aaron Lazar

#17. I've dug this grave myself. I guess I have no choice but to lie down in it.

Meg Cabot

#18. That's the wonder of jazz, Mary," Johnny explained. "There's no right way and there's no order.

James Runcie

#19. Never make an excuse for going to the pub, save it for leaving.

Benny Bellamacina

#20. It's great when a huge amount of money goes from a dumb corporation into the hands of an awesome band with brilliant ideas who can use it to keep being a band for a year, as opposed to a band that's already huge taking one of those things - that's more pathetic.

Alex Scally