Garrison Keillor Quotes

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 7, 1942

Topics

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If a club is winning, you never pay attention to a guy who's 0-for-10. If a club is losing, all of a sudden you'll find that he's the main reason why you're losing, which is absurd for me.

Joe Torre

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We have to be very careful about what we say out there to the masses in the entertainment industry because people are listening to every word, and they take it to heart.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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To be able to always have a super sense of who I was and my own real identity and be petty and seem informed and always thinking in thoughts would be great.

Jeff Goldblum

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The poorest people are so incredibly poor, and the rich are so incredibly rich on the other side. That is a kind of fascination.

Simon Beaufoy

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I enjoy eating so much. I eat for happiness, fuel, and nourishment.

Torrey DeVitto

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Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

Tom Stoppard

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Over the last 10 years a huge amount has been achieved in getting people into work. Measures such as the New Deal, tax credits, the minimum wage and improved childcare have brought about record numbers of people in work, a number that is still rising despite the global economic slowdown.

Lucy Powell

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You know what Michael did? He got me the most fabulous place to live. If you read the tabloids, it's the enclave of the enclave, Beverly Hills, which I have no idea what an enclave is. If it's chic-chic, it's cool.

Debbie Rowe

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I was pulled out of school for every moratorium day and every rally for a left-wing candidate... from Ed Koch in his heyday to Eugene McCarthy. That's the culture that I came from.

Chris Meledandri

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Do not mistake a crowd of big wage-earners for the leisure class.

Clive Bell

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I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

Bob Newhart

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True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

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