Garrison Keillor Quotes

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

TimePeopleGreedLookVanityNever

There has never been a law passed that I couldn't bend.

Jimmy Savile

LawNeverBendBeenPassed

The cultivation of sensibility on purely personal lines may, in fact, be the very worst training for a world where only the corporate and the cooperative will matter.

John Grierson

TrainingWorldPersonalMatterWorst

In theater, you really work out the kinks and figure out exactly what you want to do and what we want to say, so by the time we have an audience, we're really prepared. With TV, you have a day... Sometimes, just a few hours.

Amber Stevens

WorkTimeDayYouSometimesWant

But to make a holiday record that involves favorite American songs and then also get to sing about Jesus birth, it just seemed like a real easy, subtle way to combine a couple of things that I love.

Amy Grant

LoveAmericanEasyHolidayWayReal

I thought 'Twinkies' was just a word for 'cookies,' not a specific thing. They kind of scare me a little bit because they last forever.

Tove Lo

MeThoughtCookiesKindLittleLast

There's a lot of anger in the Twitter-verse, as I've discovered. But there's a lot of love.

Joss Whedon

LoveAngerLotDiscovered

I just honestly want to do what's best for my health.

Chris Borland

HealthBestWantJustHonestly

My last name is Wellsley, but a lot of people say it's Lowendowski, which is my mother's last name, and I had it changed to my father's when I was 18.

Cory Wells

FatherMotherPeopleNameSayLast

You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.

Bronson Pinchot

PracticeFeetYouDancingWorthy

I use Ecoco EcoStyler gel, but the alcohol-free protein one. That's the key.

SZA

KeyProteinUseGel

Well, one thing's very clear, that terrorism isn't just a threat which is external to Western countries. It's not simply a foreign menace that comes from overseas to strike our cities. It can and it does, as we now know, come from within our own countries and from inside our own populations.

Pauline Neville-Jones

KnowNowStrikeTerrorismInside

Discussions of the economy, especially during times of crisis, are often framed in terms of lessons we supposedly learned during the Depression of the 1930s. If we are not to endure terrible times like those again, we are told, we must support whatever form of state intervention is currently being peddled.

Thomas Woods

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