“All organisms vary, and it's just folk knowledge. You just have to look around a room of people, and everybody knows that it's true. Darwin didn't know the mechanism of heredity, but you don't have to. You just need to know the fact of it.” PeopleKnowsNeedsLooksFactsRoomsFolksMechanismOrganismsVaryHeredity Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.” WorldHappensRoomsRocksHistoricalFolksSingersDecent Author:Al Stewart
“These are folks that keep people out of hospitals, out of emergency rooms, out of nursing homes. And not only that, they help people achieve more fulfilling lives.” PeopleHelpingHomeRoomsAchieveFolksHospitalsFulfillingEmergenciesNursingFulfilling LifeNursing HomeEmergency Room Author:Atul Gawande
“Don't get me wrong. I like Disney World. The rest rooms are clean enough for neurosurgery, and the employees say things like "Howdy, folks!" and actually seem to mean it. You wonder: Where do they get these people? My guess: 1952. I think old Walt realized, way back then, that there would eventually be a shortage of cheerful people, so he put all the residents of south western Nebraska into a giant freezer with a huge picture of Jiminy Cricket on the outside, and the corporation has been thawing them out as needed ever since.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayMeanHas BeensEnoughHumorSeemsFunnyRoomsWonderHugeNeededCleanSouthWesternFolksCorporationsGiantsEmployeeCricketCheerfulShortageResidentsWaltNebraskaFreezerNeurosurgeryThawing Book:Dave Barry Talks Back Source: Dave Barry Talks Back
“At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.” NeedsSaidBornRoomsGrewGrew UpEnglandYeahFolksMeatHouseholdEnglishmenLiverpoolLonger Life Author:Mike Myers
“Country music is the combination of African and European folk songs coming together and doing a little waltz right here in the American south. They came together at some cotillion, and somebody snuck a black person into the room, and he danced with a white lady, and music was born.” LittlesPersonsCountryTogetherSongBlackBornWhiteRoomsMusic IsSouthFolksCombinationComing TogetherBlack PersonWaltzFolk SongsCotillion Author:Ketch Secor