Bill Engvall Quotes

My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

Bill Engvall

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• Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • People
  • World
  • Kids

• It's easy to have a good season but if you want to have a great season you have got to win a major tournament.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Good
  • Great
  • Win

• Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Fall
  • Woman
  • Grace

• My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'

  

  Carl Crawford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• It's super trippy coming to America because we know everything about it - from music and film. I know what a Southern accent sounds like; I know what a New York accent sounds like.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Music
  • America
  • New York

• I know I look super young.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Know
  • Look
  • Young

• I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • College
  • Years
  • New York

• I don't believe that human beings are necessarily monogamous.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Believe
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Most pumpkin dishes involve scooping out the seeds, cutting off the skin, and chopping up the flesh before cooking.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Cutting
  • Cooking

• And the basis on which we agreed to operate with them involved a manifesto, where it states that we proceed from different ideologies and policies. One thing that we insisted on was that they should take an oath to reject racism and discrimination.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • Different
  • Racism
  • Discrimination

• When I was a kid, I thought it was tough.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Thought
  • Kid
  • Tough

• All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Up
  • Everyone
  • Legal

• You can instill fear in your kids and get them to mind, but they won't function better in the world and your relationship will suffer greatly.

  

  Ian Dunbar
  • World
  • Mind
  • Kids

• If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • Ocean
  • Land

• My faith helps me overcome such negative emotions and find my equilibrium.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Emotions
  • Negative

• The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Up
  • House
  • Marriage

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true and was it that she, Francie, was the dreamer?

  

  Betty Smith
  • Real
  • She
  • True

• My family still lives in Chicago: my mother, my sister, my nephew, my family is there. So even though I am not living there, I feel very close to it, and I visit very often.

  

  Lena Waithe
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Sister

• My mother wanted me to be friends only with children she considered socially suitable.

  

  Brigitte Bardot
  • Children
  • She
  • Friends

• I think the teenage sides of myself have informed my adult self.

  

  Cole Sprouse

• Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • Solitude

• My goal is for 'The Bill Engvall Show' to be a show the networks look at and say, 'Ooh, maybe we should get back to the family sitcom.'

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Family