Bill Engvall Quotes

I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards.

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• My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
  • People
  • Parents
  • Team

• The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Believe
  • Character
  • Book

• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• I hate competition.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Hate
  • Competition

• You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Hand
  • Fast

• I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Writing
  • Idea
  • Bliss

• In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Up
  • Home
  • Focus

• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • People
  • Think
  • Violence

• The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Issue

• The kind of audience I'm speaking to is a very wide range of people.

  

  Haley Reinhart
  • People
  • Kind
  • Audience

• The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Memory
  • Your
  • Proven

• You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

  

  Ice Cube
  • She
  • Kids
  • Woman

• Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • People
  • You
  • Company

• Nobody wants to see a half-finished Vine.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • See
  • Nobody
  • Vine

• I only photograph myself at poignant moments in my life as a check of where I am and how large my thighs are.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Photograph

• I remember the first time I saw 'Frances Ha' and was like, 'This is what I want to do.'

  

  Kathryn Newton
  • Time
  • Remember

• The shrine is vowed to freedom, but, my friend, Freedom is but a means to gain an end. Freedom should build the temple, but the shrine Be consecrate to thought still more divine. The human bliss which angel hopes foresaw Is liberty to comprehend the law. Give, then, thy book a larger scope and frame, Comprising means and end in Truth's great name.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Great
  • Book
  • Truth

• Yes, I'm an African, born and bred. My forebears arrived in South Africa in 1688. My later forebears fought the first modern anti-colonial war on the continent of Africa, against Great Britain. I'm an African, through and through, and the fact that I'm white does not detract from my total commitment to my country and through my country, to our continent.

  

  F. W. de Klerk
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• I also appreciate the lasting friendships I've made while working with our great sponsors through the years, including Miller Lite, Shell and Dodge.

  

  Kurt Busch
  • Great
  • Friendships

• When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Song

• I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • Good
  • Great
  • Laughter