Garrison Keillor Quotes
When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.Garrison Keillor
Quotes to Explore
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
Barbra Streisand -
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
Owen Benjamin -
I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
Edmund Hillary -
But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
Dan Rather -
When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
Pat Summitt
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I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.
Jack Kemp -
I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
Ian Williams Battles -
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn -
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.
Jack L. Chalker -
I love wearing men's clothing and underwear.
Zoe Saldana -
The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
Natalie Massenet
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
Olive Schreiner -
Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys -
I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
Dani Shapiro -
I'm not an economist; I'm a hacker who has spent his career exploring and repairing large networks.
Dan Kaminsky -
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon -
One reason we stop praying or let our prayer lives fade is that we are too comfortable.
Bill Hybels
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Don't try to be anybody else, because that's what I do. I do me. I'm not trying to impress anybody. I'm not trying to please my pastor at church. I'm not trying to even please my mom, to be honest.
Anjelah Johnson -
It was growing dusk, the blue hour when solid things take on a certain transparency and phantoms become palpable.
Kage Baker -
'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' story follows Sarah's family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, 'Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!'
Kelly Sue DeConnick -
What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fairly under the law as God sees us in His sight.
Clementa C. Pinckney -
When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
Garrison Keillor