Bill Engvall Quotes

during a bit about dogs

Bill Engvall

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• If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Truth
  • Saying
  • Negotiation

• Yeah - I wanna be the sister to Khaleesi in 'Game of Thrones.' I wanna be a dragon lady; that would be really fun!

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Fun
  • Game
  • Sister

• We never do Valentine's dinner, because everybody, they look. On Valentine's, imagine me and David going to a restaurant! Like, everybody's going to say, 'Did they talk? Did they hold hands?' Twenty years. We've been married twenty years!

  

  Iman
  • Me
  • Hands
  • Dinner

• I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Strong
  • Me

• I don't like pretentious films or pretentious people.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Like
  • Pretentious

• Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Today
  • Simple
  • Perfection

• The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Important
  • Experience
  • Game

• My shoes aren't minimalist, but they are about a new simplicity.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Shoes
  • New
  • Simplicity

• I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Job
  • Friends
  • London

• When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • New
  • New York
  • Teenager

• But you've got to understand what the other guy is about, even if at the end of the process you decide that there is no ground with this man or woman except to fight them.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Woman

• Contrary to general belief, an artist is never ahead of his time but most people are far behind theirs.

  

  Edgard Varese
  • People
  • Time
  • Art

• I recently reread an article of mine written in 1964, and I think it is still valid. There is not much difference. Many of the items on the agenda 37 years ago are still there.

  

  Harri Holkeri
  • Think
  • Years
  • Difference

• As a drummer, you're always fighting for a level that you never quite attain.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Fighting
  • Always
  • Never

• Anything worse than what I do, without knowing what, or why, I have never been able to conceive, and that doesn’t surprise me, for I never tried. For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Why
  • Peace

• I'm not surprised, motherfuckers.

  

  Nate Diaz

• One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.

  

  Arthur Sullivan
  • Work
  • Waiting
  • Inspiration

• The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.

  

  Adam Smith
  • High
  • Road
  • Safety

• I've always been a huge fan of thrillers like David Fincher's 'Se7en.' I am fascinated by the disturbing, dark underbelly of life. I find such films deeply engrossing. They delve deep into the human psyche, and that's a place worth exploring.

  

  Emraan Hashmi
  • Life
  • Dark
  • Deep

• I've been calling myself 'just an actor' since I was 6 years old. That's a long time.

  

  Ari Graynor
  • Time
  • Long

• A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Art
  • Law
  • Practice

• during a bit about dogs

  

  Bill Engvall