Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barack Obama

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

Barack Obama

Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

We're thankful those folks weren't in the wrong place at the wrong time.

This shouldn't be a game of 'gotcha,' you know. We shouldn't be playing a game. The folks have a right to know what you think. You're there for life,

There are a lot of time-consuming things a lot of folks don't think about that have to take place after the game.

We've got to get a handle on these things. We've got to make sure folks are safe.

Bruce Babbitt

We've got to do something to make these folks whole,

Billy Williams

I get double-takes at the hardware store. I've had people say, 'I didn't know you did this.' With a celebrity, if folks don't see you, they think all you do is stay in the house.

Jack Kingston

It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.

We wanted to be able to have a private meeting where folks were not worried about being on the record.

Howard Smith

We've had a lot of traffic. We've had a lot of out-of-town folks and that was good.

Scott Williams

We've got a lot of folks who want to talk to us (about playing in the event).

Doug Larson

This whole trip was organized in a very short time -- only three days. But we have a number of folks joining us from around the state ... This seems to be a problem everywhere.

Barry Williams

We're training folks to take those jobs and incumbent employees.

Lee Miller

We're overwhelmed with folks here. Our shelters are full here.

We didn't give the Sundance folks much of a show for three quarters, but once we got going, it got pretty loud.

Hill Harper

The thing about our country, Americans, and New Yorkers in particular, we all want to help. There's real folks who want to help. The problem is, they don't know how. They don't know how to get involved.

Barry Ritholtz

To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.

We will make sure that no Vermonter who needs their drugs goes without them, including folks if they go to the Island Pond dispensary.

Gina Prince-Bythewood

I don't want people to go to a film of mine because they feel guilty, like, 'I have to support it because there's black folks in there.' I want them to go because it's a good movie.

Chuck Palahniuk

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Al Feldstein

When I was a kid, I used to sneak down the stairs when my folks were listening to 'The Witch's Tale' and 'Inner Sanctum' on the radio. I went to see 'Frankenstein' in the movie theater and got the pants scared off of me.

Those folks are our partners. You can get to Fort Smith in about 50 minutes.

Mark Zuckerberg

We pay attention to every demographic in every country, so we're going to focus on building things that teens are going to like, and we're also going to focus on building things that other folks are going to like.

Patty Loveless

When I listen to my own records, I always think, 'Oh, I could have sung that so much better.' But you have to finish something and turn it in. If I didn't have folks who say, 'Come on, we need the record now,' I probably would never finish one.

We needed to make sure we had a product to serve those folks in the quarter-of-a-million range.

We have a mandate to return the hurricane protection system to pre-Katrina levels by June 1. The folks out there are really working like crazy. We've got folks pounding steel 24 hours a day.

Kathleen Troia McFarland

It's the libertarians who want to reclaim decision-making for themselves. It's the small government folks who see government as a great Leviathan gobbling up more and more of their treasure and freedoms.

Just like we saw with the hurricane last fall, when folks are in need people step up and help out.

What you all have done in the last 48 hours, that's history. It is history because it's the young folks who are doing the leading today.

He said, 'I need to get these folks back'.

Kristan Higgins

Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.

He was in a rage. And it was so random, it's random that he would come to this house, he didn't know these folks and to come in and do this much damage, it's just mean.