Bill Burr Quotes

I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

Bill Burr

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• As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • You

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• I keep thinking, we teach children to use language to solve their disputes. We teach them not to hit and fight and bite. Then look what adults do!

  

  Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Thinking
  • Children
  • Language

• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Thinking
  • Always
  • Ride

• Every cancer looks different. Every cancer has similarities to other cancers. And we're trying to milk those differences and similarities to do a better job of predicting how things are going to work out and making new drugs.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Work
  • Different
  • Trying

• My advice is not always so logical and consistent. But then, love is not logical and consistent. So why should my advice be? If you want that kind of thinking, go to a computer. Computers are always logical and consistent, and you see how often they get proposed to.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Thinking
  • Advice
  • Consistent

• In England, everyone believes if you think, then you don't feel. But all my novels are about joining together thinking and feeling.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Thinking
  • Together
  • Think

• I like to write books that I would have liked as a child, that would have got me thinking and imagining beyond the words on the page. In a way, my audience is always how I remember myself as a child.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Words

• I can remember being at Sandringham, for the first time, at Christmas. And I was worried what to give the Queen as her Christmas present. I was thinking, 'Gosh, what should I give her?'. I thought, 'I'll make her something.' Which could have gone horribly wrong. But I decided to make my granny's recipe of chutney.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Remember

• Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find nothing.

  

  Aesop
  • Thinking
  • Gold

• My mind is always going. I'm always thinking what I need to do, what I haven't done, what I did do, what I didn't do as well as I could - I'm relentless that way with myself.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Done

• I'm thinking, 'Man, there's this whole other group of people that are attached to me because of my last name and my family's roots.' That's pretty cool. That's special, that's a lot of power and it's important.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Important

• With 'A Hijacking' I didn't talk to anyone who had been hijacked, but with 'A War,' I talked to as many soldiers as possible trying to understand how is it in Afghanistan.

  

  Pilou Asbaek
  • Trying
  • War

• You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

  

  Kerry Washington
  • Thinking
  • May

• When I designed 'Flower' I was thinking about making it a positive, almost like a self-healing experience. It's like therapy.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Thinking
  • Experience
  • Positive

• I grew up thinking a bit of pushing and shoving was completely normal. Then I suddenly learned that if you kick another player, you get in trouble. Nobody had ever reprimanded me for that before.

  

  Diego Costa
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Player

• Well, like most black Americans, I grew up thinking I was supposed to be a Democrat. It wasn't even something you questioned or thought twice about. Black equaled Democrat.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Black

• Don't think in the morning. That's a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don't think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

  

  Jocko Willink
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• As the train rounded the curve, the great smoking stacks of the Edgar Thomson works, the flaming converters belching forth, made such a vivid impression upon my youthful mind that it will never fade. I thought I had seen the very acme of what might be accomplished in an industrial way.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Smoking

• Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • People
  • God
  • True

• I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paintsville.

  

  Chris Stapleton
  • Life

• Every time we had a raid, I'd get a boyfriend out of it.

  

  Cynthia Payne
  • Time
  • Boyfriend

• I think it gets uncomfortable when you try to act like you didn't just tell a joke that bombed.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Jokes