Bill Engvall Quotes

in the lost luggage office in Buffalo

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• As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Child
  • Story
  • Logic

• The first wave of the Internet was really about data transport. And we didn't worry much about how much power we were consuming, how much cooling requirements were needed in the data centers, how big the data center is in terms of real estate. Those were almost afterthoughts.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Real
  • Power
  • Worry

• One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Desire
  • Stupid
  • Dreams

• For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Real
  • Rich
  • Poor

• If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Hand
  • Military
  • Fight

• I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Know
  • Never
  • Going

• I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • Age
  • Young
  • Vacuum

• Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Bible
  • Hell
  • Crime

• National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Political
  • Freedom
  • Space

• Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Life
  • Good
  • May

• If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Been
  • Would
  • Macho

• I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Me
  • Lucky
  • Diagnosed

• I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Taste
  • Cultural
  • Zones

• The 1 to 2 billion poorest in the world, who don't have food for the day, suffer from the worst disease: globalization deficiency. The way globalization is occurring could be much better, but the worst thing is not being part of it. For those people, we need to support good civil societies and governments.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Myself
  • Look
  • Appearance

• A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Safe
  • Worlds
  • Untrue

• I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • Good
  • Friend
  • Baby

• I want to be a voice for that: just because I've lost weight doesn't mean that I'm happy and content with my body. Because of the media, and because of what I feel I should look like, it's always going to be a battle in my head.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Happy
  • Lost
  • Media

• All that is noble in the world's past history, and especially the minds of the great and the good, are never lost.

  

  James Martineau
  • World
  • Good
  • Great

• Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Lost
  • Entirely

• Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Thinking
  • Lost
  • Painting

• There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected not just via Facebook and Internet, you're actually quite literally connected by your neurons.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • People
  • World
  • Real

• in the lost luggage office in Buffalo

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Lost