Garrison Keillor Quotes

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

Garrison Keillor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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During the war, in which several of our embedded correspondents were able to report from moving vehicles crossing the Iraqi desert, the use of technology made news gathering safer.

Jim Walton

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I inherited Mom's verbal skills, and participated in forensics and essay contests in elementary school - and won every essay contest I ever entered.

Joel Salatin

SchoolMomSkillsElementary School

The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime.

Max Stirner

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Immunity to obsolescence is the only obsolescent-immune conceit of the past millennium.

Matt Mullenweg

PastOnlyMillenniumConceit

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

Stockwell Day

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If you're famous, you suck, just for being famous. People in England totally get that; Americans don't.

Trey Parker

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Here's how I operate. When I see something I like, 20 years later, I ask her brother for her phone number. She don't even see me coming.

Ron White

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When I was a kid, I couldn't see life outside ramen noodles and Kool-Aid.

Jason Reynolds

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I don't have a cell phone because I know how horrible it is. Using your cell phone is like putting your head in a microwave every day.

Douglas Tompkins

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The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

Denis Diderot

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I think in vitro is a miracle and it has given me my precious little baby boy.

Cindy Margolis

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I do feel strongly that string theory is our best hope for making progress at unifying gravity and quantum mechanics.

Brian Greene

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