“God is inside you and inside everybody else. You come into the world with God. But only them that search for it inside find it. And sometimes it just manifest itself even if you not looking, or don't know what you looking for. Trouble do it for most folks, I think. ... Yeah, It. God ain't a he or a she, but a It.” IfsThinkingKnowsWorldSometimesGodTroubleYeahFolksManifest Book:Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism Source: Anything We Love Can Be Saved: A Writer's Activism
“Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.” IfsMenWorldGivingMeanWarProblemSeemsWould BeYoungChanceSecretWonderfulMinutesThis WorldBabyListeningYeahHungerFolksPopsSolveHeyPollutionWonderful WorldBaby LoveGive It A Chance Author:Louis Armstrong
“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
“It's a privilege to pay taxes. Yeah! It's not a political question, folks. We have to pay for stuff.” PoliticalStuffPayTaxesYeahFolksPrivilege Author:Lewis Black
“Stand-up comedy - I love this job, and I gotta tell you, folks - knock wood - it's been working. 'Cause I was one of those kind of people, even when I had a regular job, I couldn't even call in sick right. You know, I was like, 'Hello? Yeah, I can't come in today. I have scurvy.” PeopleKnowsKindI CanTodayJobsCausesComedySickYeahFolksWoodsHelloStand Up Comedy Author:Carol Leifer
“Yeah, we were looking for a way to represent adulthood and the passing into adulthood. And I think, for me personally and a lot of the folks that I work with, childhood is kind of a sacred, special kind of point in time that has a real joy and purity to it. And we sort of long on a daily basis to reach back and kind of grab onto that in some way.” ThinkingWayKindLongRealJoyChildhoodSpecialBasesYeahSacredFolksPassingPassingsPurityAdulthoodReal Joy Author:Pete Docter
“It's become this really odd thing where even some of the folks who build the things that we wear for entertainment are contacted by DARPA-esque companies who are saying, "Yeah, we're really doing that, and we want to talk to you."” WantCompanyYeahFolksEntertainmentOddOdd Things Author:Robert Downey, Jr.
“What happens is sometimes these congregations will still have the white style of worship, even though they're mixed, because folks are willing to give up whatever they may have come with. So it's still quite a stretch for African Americans, yeah.” GivingMayStillsSometimesHappensWhiteStyleWillingGiving UpWorshipYeahFolksAfrican AmericanCongregation Author:Michael Emerson
“I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?” KnowsPlayCallingTraditionYeahFolksBoxesPopular Music Author:Shane MacGowan