"Be well, do good work, and keep in touch."

--

Source : Traditional sign-off for "The Writer's Almanac" radio show, 1993 - 2017.

Garrison Keillor

#Love Quotes #Goodbye Quotes #Farewell Quotes

“Everything I do, I do for love.”
“With control of the universe at stake, a crash program is imperative.We produced the A-bomb, under the huge Manhattan Project, in an amazingly short time. The needs, the urgency today are even greater. The Air Force should end UFO secrecy, give the facts to scientists,the public, to Congress. Once the people realize the truth, they would back, even demand a crash program...for this is one race we dare not lose.”
“It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.”

Source : Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.198, Oneworld Publications
“When you are risen on the eastern horizon You have filled every land with your beauty... Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth.”
“I saw a great Newfoundland dog the other day sitting in front of a mirror at the entrance to a shop in Regent's Circus, and examining himself with an amount of smug satisfaction that I have never seen equaled elsewhere outside a vestry meeting.”
“Most of the earth's inhabitants work to get by. They work because they have to. They didn't pick this or that kind of job out of passion; the circumstances of their lives did the choosing for them. Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries. And there's no sign that coming centuries will produce any changes for the better as far as this goes.”
“Photographers are always voyeuristic, and they do sort of live vicariously. I think every artist does.”
“On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.”

Source : Address at Progressive Conservative Brunch in Montreal, Quebec, www.canadahistory.com. August 22, 1993.

You may also like:

Billy Collins
Poet
Chris Thile
Mandolinist
Ira Glass
Radio personality
Lily Tomlin
Actress
Meryl Streep
Actress
Renee Fleming
Consultant
Robert Altman
Film director
Terry Gross
Radio host
Sara Watkins
Singer-songwriter