Garrison Keillor Quotes

"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."
-Garrison Keillor

"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known."
-Garrison Keillor

"I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'"
-Garrison Keillor in America quotes.

"Writers are vaccuum cleaners who suck up other people's lives and weave them into stories like a sparrow builds a nest from scraps."
-Garrison Keillor

"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 in Beauty quotes.

"To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich."
-Garrison Keillor

"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."
-Garrison Keillor

"Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted."
-Garrison Keillor

"It's better to be burnished with use than rusty with principle."
-Garrison Keillor

"God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny."
-Garrison Keillor in God quotes.