Garrison Keillor Quotes

Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing flip-flops, flames pour from his mouth, and it's impressive. But you see it in print, and it's just ugly.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Nowadays, people don't ask you how you are, they say, 'Are you busy?' meaning, 'Are you well?' If someone actually does ask you how you are, the most cheerful answer, of course, is a robust 'Busy!' to which the person will reply 'Good!'

Jo Ann Davis

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The message is pretty clear: Americans are sick and tired of the doubletalk coming out of Washington, of us going home and saying we're conservative and then coming up here and voting for 10,000 earmarks. We can't fool America anymore; the media is too good. They're reporting what we're really doing.

Jim DeMint

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Where one industry stumbles, another rises up.

John Battelle

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I showed what I can do with butter, right? Eighty-five percent increase in sales. I'm very proud of them Country Life ads. They were funny and clever and classy like the Toblerone ads I grew up with.

John Lydon

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According to the U.S. Census, the most common reason people give for not voting is that they were too busy or had conflicting work or school schedules.

Jeff Miller

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I was a pretty scrappy, tough kid; I got in all sorts of fights at school. I defended myself - boys didn't mess with me. But as one of seven children, you have to fight for everything anyway.

Amy Adams

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I really am enjoying the fact that I feel like women are having more and more say in Hollywood, in television particular.

Miriam Shor

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We have altered the physical, chemical and biological properties of the planet on a geological scale. We have left no part of the globe untouched.

David Suzuki

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I think the Grammy is like the award, you know.

Brandy Norwood

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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

Anne Sexton

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Life changed a lot after marriage. I am not the same person as before.

Allu Arjun

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The secret I've lived by ever since I started earning money is this: Always buy a house with an extra bedroom adjoining the master. And that's always my closet.

Polly Bergen

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