Garrison Keillor Quotes

There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

Garrison Keillor

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• People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.

  

  Laura Marling
  • People
  • Think
  • Look

• We all know now that people can look good for their age. It isn't so extraordinary, I don't know why people go on about it so much.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• The old bastions of the post-communist regime collapsed before my very eyes. The monsters who had kept Ukraine in a criminal state left the stage.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • Eyes
  • Stage
  • Old

• I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.

  

  Malcolm X
  • City
  • Blessed
  • Holy

• You can learn more from a person just from their observations and how they see the world. More so than just talking.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • World
  • Learn
  • Talking

• I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Kind

• I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.

  

  Navid Negahban
  • Speak
  • Understand
  • German

• It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Black
  • Enough
  • Made

• I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Thought
  • Grateful
  • Potential

• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Bird

• If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Want
  • Earth
  • Myself

• Parent hard, play hard. That's my philosophy.

  

  Oliver Hudson
  • Play
  • Philosophy
  • Parent

• Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Good
  • Running
  • Workout

• I don't go out, so I don't get attention from girls. They're not going to have posters of me on their walls. I just try to get on with my life.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Life
  • Me
  • Attention

• I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Up
  • Mom
  • Church

• When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Women
  • Society
  • Road

• There are going to be good days and bad days... and you have to learn to fight through that.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Learn

• Machines are becoming devastatingly capable of things like killing. Those machines have no place for empathy. There's billions of dollars being spent on that. Character robotics could plant the seed for robots that actually have empathy.

  

  David Hanson
  • Character
  • Plant
  • Empathy

• When, in his first inaugural address, Ronald Reagan famously said government is the problem, not the solution, he established the Republican mantra that has not changed in all the years since. It was a clever bit of rhetoric, but it has turned too many Republicans into economic simpletons.

  

  David Horsey
  • Clever

• People tend to keep their distance.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • People
  • Distance
  • Tend

• I don't start fights, but sometimes I don't walk away from them. It hasn't happened in a long time, but it's happened, and I regret those times. I should have been more in control of myself, stronger, more adult.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Time
  • Long
  • Control

• To lose your temper is only useful once a year.

  

  Colin R. Davis

• There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

  

  Garrison Keillor