Wobegon Quotes

#1. Lake Wobegon, the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.

Garrison Keillor

#2. I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.

Garrison Keillor

#3. Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.

Garrison Keillor

#4. 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

#5. In Lake Wobegon, we don't forget mistakes.

Garrison Keillor

#6. If you can't trust your can open, then what?

Garrison Keillor

#7. circling the green. She

Louise Penny

#8. Two little drops in that river that flowed silently towards the unknown; two little drops that to themselves had so much individuality and to the onlooker were but an undistinguishable part of the water.

W. Somerset Maugham

#9. There was the unspeakable neatness of military preparation for violence

Louise Erdrich

#10. If you can't trust your can opener, then what? Is your wastebasket going to get you?

Garrison Keillor

#11. Really, I'm pretty laid-back, always cracking jokes.

Chace Crawford

#12. When you grow up in the Soviet society under the communists you heard about the one man who is especially dangerous, especially crazy, and absolutely mad, and which would destroy all the human beings and the economies and so on, and this man was called Milton Friedman.

Mart Laar