"It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought……" — Garrison Keillor
"It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming."
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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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More Air Quotes
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Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the…
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Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom -…
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On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million…
— Diane Ackerman
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It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then…
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Let us never forget this: since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of…
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Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
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Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.
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I love roller coasters that make my stomach drop. One ride in Las Vegas, the Big Shot, straps you into…
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Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The nation that secures control of the air will ultimately control the world.
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A rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in the bosom of the earth and…
— Clive Bell
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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is…
— Hilaire Belloc
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