Garrison Keillor quote: "I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better."

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
GARRISON KEILLOR

A book is a gift you can open again and again.
GARRISON KEILLOR

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showe...
GARRISON KEILLOR

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

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't k...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
GARRISON KEILLOR

Cursing is highly effective in person - someone kicks his car in rage, forgetting he's wearing f...
GARRISON KEILLOR

My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be l...
GARRISON KEILLOR

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
GARRISON KEILLOR

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
GARRISON KEILLOR

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

The gains in life come slowly and the losses come on suddenly. You work for years to get your life t...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
GARRISON KEILLOR

I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.'
GARRISON KEILLOR

English is the perfect language for preachers because it allows you to talk until you think of what ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
GARRISON KEILLOR

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a purpose.
GARRISON KEILLOR

Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garag...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under surveillance: it might...
GARRISON KEILLOR

People will miss that it once meant something to be Southern or Midwestern. It doesn't mean much now...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great leng...
GARRISON KEILLOR

The funniest line in English is Get it? When you say that, everyone chortles.
GARRISON KEILLOR

This is a great country, and it wasn't made so by angry people. We have a sacred duty to bequeath it...
GARRISON KEILLOR

One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate hi...
GARRISON KEILLOR

This is Democratic bedrock: we don't let people lie in the ditch and drive past and pretend not to s...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of ge...
GARRISON KEILLOR

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through i...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.
GARRISON KEILLOR

I believe that sometimes you have to look reality in the eye and deny it.
GARRISON KEILLOR

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
GARRISON KEILLOR

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes,...
GARRISON KEILLOR

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go throu...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for th...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
GARRISON KEILLOR

The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his son...
GARRISON KEILLOR

It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning thei...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no t...
GARRISON KEILLOR

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going t...
GARRISON KEILLOR

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
GARRISON KEILLOR

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm go...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong w...
GARRISON KEILLOR

I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinte...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Welcome to Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the c...
GARRISON KEILLOR

The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
GARRISON KEILLOR

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roa...
GARRISON KEILLOR

The funniest line in English is ''Get it?'' When you say that, everyone chortles.
GARRISON KEILLOR

I love New York, and I'm drawn to a certain intensity of life, but I've just never felt like...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold o...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read a...
GARRISON KEILLOR

What would people think?'
Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is l...
GARRISON KEILLOR

The reason to retire is to try to avoid embarrassment; you ought to do it before people are dropping...
GARRISON KEILLOR

You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories.
GARRISON KEILLOR

I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

is that we're this little, quiet pond, undisturbed. Sort of like a museum piece. Except we don't wan...
GARRISON KEILLOR

They would not be smart enough to pour piss out of their boots, if the instructions were written on ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar hair...
GARRISON KEILLOR

I want to resume the life of a shy person.
GARRISON KEILLOR

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Big mistake, ... Why do I need another weekly deadline?
GARRISON KEILLOR

We had a bevy -- literally a bevy -- of queens on our show, representing every agricultural product,...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at somethin...
GARRISON KEILLOR

one of the amazing experiences of my young life.
GARRISON KEILLOR

I'm not busy, ... A woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

All fiction comes from a little bit of reality, otherwise it would have no relevance. The fun is in ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Be more funny! Be more funny!
GARRISON KEILLOR

A Democrat in a red state? ... Were you elected, or is this a divine miracle?
GARRISON KEILLOR

There's so many people who move around our country and lose track of their own ancestry. It's nice t...
GARRISON KEILLOR

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss...
GARRISON KEILLOR

May his soul be forever tormented by fire - And his bones be dug up by dogs - And dragged through th...
GARRISON KEILLOR

A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast a...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve
GARRISON KEILLOR

Secret of life is to go through something harrowing that doesn't kill you...and to love one woman fo...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Be well, do good work, and keep in touch
GARRISON KEILLOR

The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose
GARRISON KEILLOR

Where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking and all the children are above-average.
GARRISON KEILLOR

Vodka is tasteless going down, but it is memorable coming up
GARRISON KEILLOR

That's the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Nothing you do for children is ever wasted.
GARRISON KEILLOR

That's the news from Lake Woebegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, an...
GARRISON KEILLOR

When NASA started sending up astronauts, they discovered that ballpoint pens don’t work in zero gr...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

And then I stand in front of God's Throne squinting up at His blazing glory and He says, 'You had yo...
GARRISON KEILLOR

I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock centr...
GARRISON KEILLOR

It is a sin to believe evil of others but it is seldom a mistake.
GARRISON KEILLOR

and opened a Harry Potter book, read a few pages and said: 'I could have done that. I could have don...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function
GARRISON KEILLOR

Powder Milk biscuits: Buy them ready-made in the big blue box with the picture of the biscuit on the...
GARRISON KEILLOR

God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

A compassionate conservative is someone who electrocutes juveniles but lets them have a last 'make a...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Let's do the nuances,
GARRISON KEILLOR

I love rhymes; I love to write a poem about New York and rhyme 'oysters' with 'The Clois...
GARRISON KEILLOR

I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough a...
GARRISON KEILLOR

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them...
GARRISON KEILLOR

He takes a kitchen chair and sits in the yard and all the ducks come around. He holds up the cheese ...
GARRISON KEILLOR

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
GARRISON KEILLOR

To be a good actor you have to feel life and observe life.
LANE GARRISON

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a clien...
JIM GARRISON

I derive no pleasure from prosecuting a man, even though I know he's guilty; do you think I coul...
JIM GARRISON

The head of the CIA, it seems to me, would think long and hard before he admitted that former employ...
JIM GARRISON

This kind of charge reveals a good deal about the personality of the people who make it; to impute s...
JIM GARRISON

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody.
JIM GARRISON

It's rather naive, apart from being ethically objectionable, to assume that our investigators tr...
JIM GARRISON

My office has been one of the most scrupulous in the country with regard to the protection of indivi...
JIM GARRISON

It is important to know who killed Jack Kennedy and why.
JIM GARRISON

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my fait...
JIM GARRISON

It has been my policy not to respond to each of the many canards which have been part of the campaig...
JIM GARRISON

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assass...
JIM GARRISON

I'm convinced from what I know of Vernon Bundy that his testimony was truthful.
JIM GARRISON

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of nationa...
JIM GARRISON

Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
LANE GARRISON

I'm originally from Dallas, Texas, where Bonnie and Clyde were from, so when I was a little kid,...
LANE GARRISON

If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a m...
LANE GARRISON

One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're su...
LANE GARRISON

I have much to say about the pain I've felt and seen inside of prison. It has been an eye-openin...
LANE GARRISON

In the end, crime doesn't pay.
LANE GARRISON

Bonnie and Clyde were almost like a modern-day Robin Hood, stealing 'the government's money....
LANE GARRISON

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, ...
LANE GARRISON

The hardest habit of all to break is the terrible habit of happiness.
THEODOSIA GARRISON

A positive attitude can really make dreams come true -- it did for me.
ZINA GARRISON

All the charges you enumerate have been made with one purpose in mind-to place our office on the def...
JIM GARRISON

Use the water of encouragement on someone else's flowers - especially the flowers that are wilted, t...
HANNAH GARRISON

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very re...
JIM GARRISON

The grand jury, composed of 12 eminent New Orleans citizens, heard our evidence and indicted the def...
JIM GARRISON

The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired t...
JIM GARRISON

I know the one thing she'd want us to be doing is laughing.
BOB GARRISON

I think it's nice for the volunteers of this area, that recognition means something to all the peopl...
BOB GARRISON

The high school drawings are being finished up in our office as we speak. The high school job will b...
BOB GARRISON

When you think about it, these budgets were formulated a year in a half ago and we're living with th...
BOB GARRISON

We are in an environment where we can't afford everything, but there are some choices.
BOB GARRISON

We weren't happy with that so our recommendation to the board was to reject those bids.
BOB GARRISON

I can sympathize with them. Because I know, you know, every time I look at the benefits I had, they'...
BILL GARRISON

I think she'll bring a whole new look, a whole new feel to this place.
BILL GARRISON

All of their 1040 information was in the hands of these crooks.
BILL GARRISON

We're getting evidence that really depicts organized crime. They really deserve more potent charges.
BILL GARRISON

No one has had the capability of getting into computers to find out the extent before. (We'll find) ...
BILL GARRISON

Research shows that early literacy is critical. Students who come from more affluent, better educate...
BILL GARRISON

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go
Back to their quiet graves below.
THEODOSIA GARRISON

It was the closest time in our department where firemen risked their lives. It was the most impressi...
DAVID GARRISON

We didn't come out ready to play. They're a good team and well coached, and you're not going to beat...
GREG GARRISON

There's a reason Cory Davis is getting a Division I scholarship. He's a difference maker, not only f...
GREG GARRISON

They were really physical inside and pushed us away from the basket. We didn't get the ball inside l...
GREG GARRISON

Our defensive presence was there ? they had 23 turnovers. Our (turnovers) came in stretches that led...
GREG GARRISON

That's kind of their trademark, to play hard and apply pressure. I think we came out a little timid ...
GREG GARRISON

We managed to hang on. We didn't do a good job of putting them away when we could have.
GREG GARRISON

We're not looking forward to that trip, to be honest with you.
GREG GARRISON

One of the big benefits is getting our kids away from home, sharing (motel) rooms. The camaraderie, ...
GREG GARRISON

The encouraging thing is we got better each game. It was a great team effort.
GREG GARRISON

I'm really proud of our kids and their defensive effort. We held them to seven in the fourth quarter...
GREG GARRISON

I believe comedy should be a resource to promote social change instead of regression. I can't say en...
LAURA GARRISON

Hurricanes affect us terribly. If we have a bad hurricane season it'll take away from everything I d...
BETSY GARRISON

The clothing is about sun protection and of course we have beer can island shorts.
BETSY GARRISON

We had the best January through March period in the history of owning our own business.
BETSY GARRISON

You never know what's going to happen. We're not going to rehearse -- we're just going to wing it.
GARRISON STARR

When I first started at KJHK it was this exalted entity to me. It was like I had finally found somet...
KYLE GARRISON

We don't have enough deodorant, so we'll add that later.
DAVID GARRISON

I'm afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national se...
JIM GARRISON

I'm not able to cry yet, ... I lost a son and a wonderful daughter-in-law, but I can't cry. I want t...
JIM GARRISON

I want to keep it diverse, but not to the point of alienating our listeners. If it's a really good l...
KYLE GARRISON

Lindsay and Serena are my singles players, ... Venus agreed to come, but knows she might not be play...
ZINA GARRISON

Martina Navratilova is an incredible person who has done so much for our sport. Venus and Serena are...
ZINA GARRISON

It's very pretty here. The stadium is very intimate and the court plays great. The hospitality is gr...
ZINA GARRISON

We're not doing anything new with Snort. What we're doing is Snort with high speed and low latency, ...
STEVE GARRISON

Substantial interest already has been expressed, both from Petaluma firms and some outside the area.
DOUG GARRISON

We are adding parking and a signal at the south entrance of the campus, but as we've seen with the n...
DOUG GARRISON

Hit television show American Idol is the perfect example of this. Thousands of hopefuls sing their h...
DOUG GARRISON

This is a monumental step for Santa Rosa Junior College, because it is a direct statement that it is...
DOUG GARRISON

When we surveyed students about their interests and needs, they expressed a lot of support for the u...
DOUG GARRISON

It will be a process. The heart and soul of our college is our faculty, and we've already found a qu...
DOUG GARRISON

I'm genuinely excited about what we'll be able to do to better serve the community. At the same time...
DOUG GARRISON

Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker, DEBORAH GARRISON

It would be a challenge even for the Delaware Theater Company to do a show like this.
DENVER GARRISON

I don't know if he could or not. He could try.
DENVER GARRISON

Gas prices are too high. Something should be done about it.
DENVER GARRISON

Selfish people try to keep or get things but they loose people
HANNAH GARRISON

A guest from company A could possibly hack into a conference held by company B, their competitor, st...
DAVID GARRISON

That smacks of bribery. He just opens himself up to misusing his money. This is the quintessential r...
GARRISON NELSON

The superstars have landed. This is a clear sign that the Democrats know how important this Senate r...
GARRISON NELSON

It's just more of a grass-roots approach. It's fans taking matters into their own hands and making g...
GARRISON STARR

The cats are terrible. Out of every 10, nine are scratching and biting and hissing.
JANE GARRISON

I've been bitten, scratched, had [my] head cracked open.
JANE GARRISON

The suffering is overwhelming. Sometimes they have food left, but all their water is gone. Every sec...
JANE GARRISON

We feel very betrayed in regards to them taking our money and giving the administrators a raise.
JANNA GARRISON

They're taking our money and giving it to the principals.
JANNA GARRISON

It's taking our money that we're sacrificing ... and they're giving the administrators up to an 11 p...
JANNA GARRISON

We should be able to work together, but the only way you can work together is with integrity and tru...
JANNA GARRISON

Our goal was to be in the top ten and nobody gave us a prayer. (Eighth place) isn't to bad for a tea...
JACK GARRISON

(Reese) came out here and beat all the good kids. What a tournament both of them had.
JACK GARRISON

He's a tough kid. You have to want to beat the hell out of the kid; that's the attitude you need.
JACK GARRISON

We needed a few more pins, they pinned us more than we pinned them and that hurt us. But I'm proud o...
JACK GARRISON

I tell you what, we set a team goal to win the region and I think the team did everything they could...
JACK GARRISON

This is not about money. This is about the judicial system gone awry. This is about two jurors being...
LARRY GARRISON

Right now I have the whole world converging on me to do interviews. I have a major (TV) network that...
LARRY GARRISON

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial. All I can say is that he is a chara...
LARRY GARRISON

As far as I know I'm doing a book with him on the Jackson trial.
LARRY GARRISON

These books are going to rock the nation. Elly and Ray are two of the three jurors who initially vot...
LARRY GARRISON

I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

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I don't have a great eye for detail. I leave blanks in all of my stories. I leave out all detail, which leaves the reader to fill in something better.

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