Garrison Keillor
Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keilloris an American author, storyteller, humorist, radio actor, voice actor, and radio personality. He is known as creator of the Minnesota Public Radio show A Prairie Home Companion, which he hosted from 1974 to 2016. Keillor created the fictional Minnesota town Lake Wobegon, the setting of many of his books, including Lake Wobegon Days and Leaving Home: A Collection of Lake Wobegon Stories. Other creations include Guy Noir, a detective voiced by Keillor who appeared in A...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth7 August 1942
CityAnoka, MN
CountryUnited States of America
She gave him such a look... Man oh man, if looks could kill. That one might have totalled a city block.
Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.
Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep
Evelyn was an insomniac so when they say she died in her sleep, you have to question that.
If you lived today as if it were your last, you'd buy up a box of rockets and fire them all off, wouldn't you?
My ability to keep cool in a crisis is based entirely on not knowing all the facts.
Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.
I have taken so many wrong turns and been so careless with precious things and managed to lose, or break, or leave out in the rain so much that I loved.
Some people have a love of their fellow man in their hearts, and others require a light anesthetic.
You're such a big liar you gotta get your neighbor to call your dog.
The French have a new president, the British will soon have a new P.M., and we envy them as we endure the endless wait for this small dim man to go back to Texas and resume his life.
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
To your left is the marina where several senior cabinet officials keep luxury yachts for weekend cruises on the Potomac. Some of these ships are up to 100 feet in length; the Presidential yacht is over 200 feet in length, and can remain submerged for up to 3 weeks.
America of the future will be all malls connected by interstates. All because your parents no longer can their own tomatoes.