Bill Engvall Quotes

I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

Bill Engvall

• People
• Fun

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Famous
  • Wanted
  • Kid

• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • Me
  • Diversity
  • Helpful

• We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Doing
  • Turn

• I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!

  

  Jack McBrayer
  • Giving
  • Worry
  • Coffee

• There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Easy
  • Internet

• I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Think
  • Single
  • Purpose

• In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Business
  • Together
  • Education

• My dad was in the military, yeah. He was in the Air Force, and he was a doctor, so he would go places for six months here, and two years there. And I was home-schooled because I played the violin, and I did a lot of competitions.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Home
  • Dad
  • Air

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• If I wasn't a writer, I would probably be a watchmaker. I like putting puzzles together, and that is what a watch is, figuring out how all the gears and everything else works together. I'm patient and good at focusing on a single task.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Together
  • Single

• If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • World
  • Music
  • Art

• I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • Believe
  • Parents
  • I Believe

• I thought what would be really just choice for a revamp and a reboot is 'The Greatest American Hero.' I think I'd be just that kind of perfect not prepared for this kind of thing, but thrust into circumstances he's not prepared for... that's another niche of mine. Unpreparedness. Not knowing what to do. I'm good at being that guy.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Good
  • American
  • Guy

• In metros, girls are very independent, conscious and aware. But in the interiors of our country, where education is not given importance, they continue to be oppressed. But it is important for every woman to acknowledge what she wants from herself rather than going for what people expect from her.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Important
  • Country

• I wasn't into sports, but I was really into Shakespeare.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Sports
  • Really
  • Shakespeare

• I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Live
  • Surrounded
  • Rural

• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • May
  • Happy
  • Health

• As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• I like comedy a lot. I love comedy. It's so much fun, but it's hard, too.

  

  Kirby Bliss Blanton
  • Fun
  • Comedy

• The borderlanders are people who are kind of caught in the middle. They think there must be another world out there. There probably is a God, but they are either turned off by the church or wounded by the church or wary of the church for whatever reason.

  

  Philip Yancey
  • People
  • World
  • God

• You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• I fantasized being a broadcaster.

  

  Larry King
  • Being
  • Broadcaster

• I have fun on stage, so people think maybe they should, too.

  

  Bill Engvall
  • People
  • Fun