All Garrison Keillor Quotes
- If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you? All
- My generation was secretive, brooding, ambitious, show-offy, and this generation is congenial. Totally. I imagine them walking around with GPS chips that notify them when… Ambitious
- One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft,… Book
- When in doubt, look intelligent. Doubt
- It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake. Belief
- Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it. Beautiful
- I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense. Funny
- Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and… Benevolent
- Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places. Allows
- Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon Anywhere
- A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own… Accept
- Be well, do good work, and keep in touch. Farewell
- Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or… All
- It's important for survival that children have their own experiences, the kind they learn from. The kind their parents arrange for are not as useful.… Arrange
- We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this… Believe
- You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog. Big
- He was admired for never being at a loss for words and never wasting any either. Admired
- IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part… Book
- I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book. Afraid
- When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal. Attacking
- Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic. Anesthetic
- Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor Beauty
- I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the… Been
- I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that. American
- Enough. Man is capable of reform once presented with the facts, and the fact is that bottling water and shipping it is a big waste… Big