"A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists,……" — Garrison Keillor
"A person does feel sheepish picking on journalists, a class already so richly despised that if a planeload of them crashed in flames, most people would smile from pure reflex."
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157 Quotes by Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor has 157 quotes on this site.
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No innocent man buys a gun, and no happy man writes his memoirs.
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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.
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Easter is so disappointing. You suffer all the way through lent, and what do you get for it? A ham.
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Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out…
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Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the…
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Some people think it is difficult to be a Christian and to laugh, but I think it's the other way…
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I don't want them to be told to remember me.
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I thought A Prairie Home Companion would be an interesting thing to do for a summer or so. Public radio…
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the…
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You learn this great lesson of life: it's not about me. It's just not. The matter of talent-which seemed so…
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She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city…
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Children can find other children to be pals. Children need fathers to be fathers.
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The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the…
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Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out…
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I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person,…
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
— Saint Augustine
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There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the bottom of the class…
— Alfred Austin
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I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm…
— Diane Ackerman
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world, should have every motive of emulation, should be formed…
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all differences of class and country.
— Robert Baden-Powell
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