Bill Engvall Quotes

I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes.

Bill Engvall

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• When you're still in the broadcast business, you're still trying to reach tens of millions. You're trying to still aim for a broader audience, and I think that's a more difficult task to spread yourself across that audience, connect with them, as opposed to a very, very small, pinpointed audience. Difficult to do.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Small

• I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fight

• The black community now in many ways divided itself the way the larger white community divides itself, over class issues. And that race is no longer the bond that it once was. That's one of the prices you pay for progress.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Black
  • Community
  • Progress

• October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Sight
  • October
  • Horizon

• Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.

  

  Jack Horner
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Looking

• I was working in Camden Lock market from the age of 13 to 16, and people often suggested that I should be a model. I knew a girl working on a stall who was with Take Two model agency, so I decided to go along, and they took me on.

  

  Saffron Aldridge
  • People
  • Age
  • Girl

• Economic recovery begins with our small businesses.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Night

• Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Greatest

• I started this charity, Fashion for Relief, in 2005, after Hurricane Katrina happened. New Orleans was actually the first place I visited in the United States. It was one of my first big jobs, a shoot for British 'Elle.' It was April 14, 1986.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Fashion
  • Charity
  • April

• I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Know
  • Relationship
  • I Can

• I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.

  

  Kate Braverman
  • Work
  • Eyes
  • Discovery

• Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

  

  Ed Koch
  • World
  • Live
  • Today

• L.A. is so fake - girls there are so superficial.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Fake
  • Superficial

• War is the health of the State and it is during war that one best understands the nature of that institution.

  

  Randolph Bourne
  • War
  • Nature
  • Health

• Within those confining walls, teachers - a bunch of men all armed with the same information - gave the same lectures every year from the same notebooks and every year at the same point in the textbooks made the same jokes.

  

  Yukio Mishima
  • Men

• If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Up
  • Reality
  • Support

• The method of not erring is sought by all the world. The logicians profess to guide it, the geometricians alone attain it, and apart from science, and the imitations of it, there are no true demonstrations.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • World
  • True
  • Science

• If I had to play only for people who liked the music because they heard it on the radio, it wouldn't make me happy. That's why I'm working so hard to have, yes, a profile as an artist, but also a profile as a DJ.

  

  David Guetta
  • People
  • Music
  • Why

• There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Heroes
  • Triumphs
  • Battlefields

• While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.

  

  Nicholson Baker
  • Writing

• Slow motion goes one of two ways. It either makes it look really, really cool, or it makes it look really, really bad.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • Bad
  • Cool

• I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes.

  

  Bill Engvall