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
Garrison Keillor quotes about
Powdermilk biscuits: Heavens, they're tasty and expeditious! They're made from whole wheat, to give shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done
In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
Wal-Mart is going in and slaughtering [small towns] just as we once killed the buffalo.
TV news is as bloody as Shakespeare but without the intelligence and the poetry. If you watch television news you know less about the world than if you drank gin out of a bottle
Eating a little was like vomiting a little, just as bad as a lot.
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards, and we will go to great lengths to prove it. Experiments with laboratory rats have shown that, if one psychologist in the room laughs at something a rat does, all of the other psychologists will laugh equally. Nobody wants to be left holding the joke.
Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
I've seen the truth, and it makes no sense.
Where I come from, when a Catholic marries a Lutheran it is considered the first step on the road to Minneapolis.
Being rich and thin isn't everything.
Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.
Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.
One day Donald Trump will discover that he is owned by Lutheran Brotherhood and must re negotiate his debt load with a committee of silent Norwegians who dont understand why anyone would pay more than $120.00 for a suit.
Humor, a good sense of it, is to Americans what manhood is to Spaniards and we will go to great lengths to prove it.