News From Lake Wobegon Quotes

#1. A boy wrote me once to say that he loved it when the news from Lake Wobegon came on the radio because it meant that his parents stopped arguing. That was an eye-opener for me. You work hard to polish your act and then you find out that it does people good in ways you couldn't predict.

Garrison Keillor

#2. We have inherited from our forefathers the keen
longing for unified, all-embracing knowledge.

Erwin Schrodinger

#3. It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

Sidney Crosby

#4. The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.

Dennis Miller

#5. In China, I lived in a dormitory, and the government paid for everything - food, buses. In Iowa, I had to run after the bus, and cook for myself. The first weeks in the U.S., I was asking, 'Where is my food?'

Liang Chow

#6. When I hear alcoholics talk about having their demons, I think that they're probably absolutely literally correct.

Alan Moore