“Well everybody's got a secret, son, something that they just can't face. Some folks spend their whole lives trying to keep it, they carry it with them every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose, cut it loose or let it drag 'em down Where no one asks any questions or looks too long in your face In the darkness on the edge of town.” TryingWellsLooksLongWholeFacesAsksSecretStepsDarknessCuttingSonTownsFolksEdgesWhole LifeEmsYour FaceDragEvery Step Author:Bruce Springsteen
“Folks who work here are professors. Don't replace all the knowers with guessors keep'em open they're the ears of the town” EarsTownsFolksEmsProfessors Author:Tom Waits
“Before the birth of the New Woman the country was not an intellectual desert, as she is apt to suppose. There were teachers of thehighest grade, and libraries, and countless circles in our towns and villages of scholarly, leisurely folk, who loved books, and music, and Nature, and lived much apart with them. The mad craze for money, which clutches at our souls to-day as la grippe does at our bodies, was hardly known then.” DoeBookSoulCountryBodyCultureMoneyKnownTeacherBirthIntellectualTownsMadLibraryFolksCirclesDesertGradesVillageClutchScholarlyOur TownCrazeBooks And Music Author:Rebecca Harding Davis
“I use a different style if I'm speaking to a big crowd; I can gin up folks pretty well. But when I'm in these town hall settings, my job is not to throw them a lot of red meat. I want to give them a sense of my thought process.” IfsWantGivingWellsI CanDifferentUseBigsJobsProcessStyleRedTownsFolksCrowdsSettingSettingsMeatHallsMy ThoughtsGinDifferent StylesThought ProcessRed Meat Author:Barack Obama
“Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless.” NeedsChildrenSometimesMatterGunEmpowermentTownsFolksProtectionMinoritiesRoughCopPowerless Author:Maya Angelou
“I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.” IfsI CanHelpingAbleTownsSticksFolksDefinitionsMelodyGesturesFlashAthleticsRibsWhatever It TakesFolk Music Author:Vance Gilbert
“I had been hearing on-the-ground buzz that white folks were moving to places like Bend, Oregon, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and St. George, Utah. That led me to discover through census data that these towns were already extremely white and they were becoming, in most cases, even whiter. Statistics could only tell me so much; in order to get to the spirit and essence of it, I had to immerse myself.” MovingSpiritOrderWhiteCasesBecomingEssenceTownsFolksHearingDataStatisticsBuzzOregonUtahIdahoCensus Author:Richard Benjamin
“I come from a school of people, folk singers, and the tradition there is troubadours, and you're carrying a message. Admittedly, our job is partly just to make you boogie, just make you want to dance. Part of our job is to take you on a little voyage, tell you a story.But part of our job is to communicate the way a town crier did: It's 12:00 and all is well, or it's 11:30 and the whole Congress is sold. It's part of the job.” PeopleWayWantWellsLittlesWholeStoriesSchoolJobsMessagesTraditionTownsCongressFolksCommunicateSingersVoyagesBoogieTroubadours Author:David Crosby
“People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young.” PeopleThinkingFirstsReasonSeemsYoungWinningNamesMediaBenefitsNewsTownsFolksConservativeScaryExpectedFoxesSmall TownConnectingIowaFox NewsPrismsFunny Name Author:Barack Obama
“I did stories about unexpected encounters, back roads, small towns and ordinary folk, sometimes doing something a little extraordinary.” LittlesSometimesStoriesOrdinaryTownsExtraordinaryFolksEncountersUnexpectedSmall TownBack Roads Author:Charles Kuralt
“Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. But be prepared for a lot of folks to wave you down and tell you you're headed the wrong way. I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 population cannot support a discount store for very long.” IfsWayYearsLongChanceSupportHeardOppositesTownsDown AndPreparedFolksWavePopulationStoresOne WaySwimConventionalBe PreparedNicheWrong WayDiscountsConventional WisdomGood Chance Author:Sam Walton
“What's great about the Sundance Film Festival is the festival takes over that town as it's intended to do. But, it's very focused on a lot of other filmmakers and distributors so it almost feels like, while they're a lot of so-called civilians there, it's an opportunity that you have to see, to show your stuff to the other folks, your peers really, and to get that reaction.” FeelsShowsFilmOpportunityStuffTownsFolksFocusedReactionsFilmmakerPeersFestivalsCiviliansDistributorsFilm FestivalsSundance Author:Alex Gibney
“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.” ThinkingWritingBeautifulReadingModernBuildingReaderProjectsStonesTownsFolksArchitectureSovietHousingIdenticalPublic Housing Author:Christine Jennings
“It`s hard to beat something with nothing. Republicans across the country are feeling the burn from an energized and angry segment of the electorate which is descending on GOP town halls and these folks want answers.” WantCountryHardFeelingsAnswersRepublicanBeatsTownsAngryFolksHallsGopDescendingElectorate Author:Chuck Todd
“Folks, some of these town halls are clearly organized. But, regardless, there are potential warning signs that Republicans perhaps shouldn`t ignore.We heard Democrats dismiss this anger at their town halls back it 2009 as, oh, that`s right, AstroTurf movements. And then, they lost the House in a big way.” WayBigsHouseLostHeardMovementRepublicanTownsDemocratFolksOrganizedHallsWarningWarning Signs Author:Chuck Todd
“Oh God, are there so many of them in our land! Students who can’t be happy until they’ve graduated, servicemen who can’t be happy until they are discharged, single folks who can’t be happy until they’ve found a mate, workers who can’t be happy until they’ve retired, adolescents who aren’t happy until they’re grown, ill people who aren’t happy until they’re well, failures who aren’t happy until they succeed, restless who can’t wait until they get out of town, and in most cases, vice versa, people waiting, waiting for the world to begin.” PeopleWorldWellsFoundWaitingCasesLandStudentsSucceedTownsWorkersFolksIllVicesMatesRestlessRetiredVice VersaServicemen Author:Tom Robbins
“The big reason why folks leave a small town,' Rant used to say, 'is so they can moon over the idea of going back. And the reason they stay put is so they can moon about getting out.' Rant meant that no one is happy, anywhere.” IdeasReasonBigsHappinessUsedMoonTownsFolksReason WhySmall TownRant Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I want to yell so loud that Baby Girl can hear me that dirty ain't a color, disease ain't the Negro side a town. I want to stop that moment from coming - and it come in ever white child's life - when they start to think that colored folks ain't as good as whites. ... I pray that wasn't her moment, Pray I still got time.” ThinkingWantChildrenStillsMomentsGirlSidesWhiteColorBabyPrayingDiseaseRacismTownsFolksDirtyLoudThat MomentI PrayBaby Girl Book:The Help Source: The Help
“But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet.” WeekShotsBuiltTownsFolksFrustratedCalluses Book:The Help Source: The Help
“To the extent that the (ISIS's) advance is a series of urban revolts against the government of PM Nouri al-Maliki, the US would end up bombing ordinary city folk. For the US to be bombing Sunni towns all these years later on behalf of Mr. al-Maliki would be to invite terrorism against the US.” YearsEndsGovernmentWould BeCitiesMilitaryOrdinaryTownsSeriesFolksIraqTerrorismAlsInvitesUrbanBehalfIsisRevoltBombingPms Author:Juan Cole
“If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light,-- One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country-folk to be up and to arm.” IfsTwoCountryLightNightChurchSeaLandReadyArmsOppositesTownsFolksSpreadBritishMarchVillageShoreFarmsTowersSignalsAlarmsArchesLanterns Author:Paul Revere