Garrison Keillor Quotes

A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

Garrison Keillor

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• When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Movie
  • Child
  • See

• I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Life
  • Fun
  • Day

• A big part of the anti-immigration narrative is the perception that the majority of immigrants are poor, uneducated, and unskilled.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Perception
  • Poor
  • Immigration

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • True
  • Struggle
  • Famous

• Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Love
  • Friend

• The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Important
  • Beautiful
  • Better

• The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.

  

  Adam Christopher
  • Money
  • Book
  • Together

• You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Why
  • You
  • Walk

• The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Politics
  • Revolution

• Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Money
  • Why
  • Know

• If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Fans

• The thing about games is, players often say they don't care about story, but then if you took the story out, what would their reaction be? If no one cared about story, we'd all still be playing Pac-Man. There's nothing wrong with Pac-Man, but the point is, there's a genre of games in which you want to become part of that world.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • World
  • Care
  • Story

• Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Trust
  • Back
  • Going

• I love to sing. I also had a band during my college days in Saudi Arabia called Thousand Decibels. If not an actor, I would have become a singer. I am very passionate about work. I am a fitness freak: I go to gym before doing my shoot. I also do yoga.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Work
  • Actor
  • Sing

• I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • Warrior
  • Revolutionary

• We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Love
  • Humanity
  • For Him

• I'm a sensualist. My two main indulgences are dark chocolate and massages.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Dark
  • Two
  • Chocolate

• It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Friend

• There's a lot of room for error with a wound in the rear. It's a wide target.

  

  James Garner

• Good music comes out of people playing together, knowing what they want to do and going for it. You have to sweat over it and bug it to death. You can't do it by pushing buttons and watching a TV screen.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• When people are coming to Krakow and we show them how and where we practice, they are like, 'Seriously? Are you kidding me?' But we're always saying that what matters about the courts - the lines, the nets - are the same. I'm practicing in Poland even when I don't have good facilities.

  

  Agnieszka Radwanska
  • People
  • Good
  • Practice

• I was ashamed for people to see me struggle.

  

  John Stossel
  • People
  • Struggle

• A good newspaper is never nearly good enough but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Forever