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The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
— Sarah Vowell
My lips are chapped from the winds of change.
— Sarah Vowell
I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy.
— Sarah Vowell
Technically, it's a family restaurant, but it will only remind you of your family if your mom chain-smoked menthols.
— Sarah Vowell
Don't bring up McKinley. Don't bring up McKinley.
— Sarah Vowell
As if I was never nicknamed 'Wednesday' as in 'Adams'.
— Sarah Vowell
Radio is the playground of coincidence.
— Sarah Vowell
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
— Sarah Vowell
Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
— Sarah Vowell
The air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.
— Sarah Vowell
Lafayette took umbrage - just gobs and gobs of umbrage - at the patriots' vilification of his countrymen for leaving Newport.
— Sarah Vowell
Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath.
— Sarah Vowell
So I say to you read! Read! Something will stick in the mind, be diligent and good will come of it.
— Sarah Vowell
Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?
— Sarah Vowell
There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money.
— Sarah Vowell
What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.
— Sarah Vowell
I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.
— Sarah Vowell
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
— Sarah Vowell
There seems to be no end to the satisfaction one gets in having one's opinions confirmed.
— Sarah Vowell
Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
— Sarah Vowell
While history might be full of exemplary fathers, recorded history is not where to find them.
— Sarah Vowell
I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race.
— Sarah Vowell
Americans' fatal tendency of disunion.
— Sarah Vowell
I like that the Mall serves as our national Tuppaware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever.
— Sarah Vowell
If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading.
— Sarah Vowell
Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.
— Sarah Vowell
Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
— Sarah Vowell
After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.
— Sarah Vowell
There's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism.
— Sarah Vowell
Even writers need relief from words.
— Sarah Vowell
Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
— Sarah Vowell
I am pro-plaque.
— Sarah Vowell
Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.
— Sarah Vowell
Like a lot of once devout people who have lost their faith, I had holes the size of heaven and hell in my head and in my heart.
— Sarah Vowell
Never have I enjoyed such swearing, before or since. Sir, on that memorable day, he swore like an angel from Heaven.
— Sarah Vowell
Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
— Sarah Vowell
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[I]deas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences.
— Sarah Vowell
My audience is going to die before I do.
— Sarah Vowell
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
— Sarah Vowell
You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
— Sarah Vowell
She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.).
— Sarah Vowell
Freedom of expression truly exists only when a society's most repugnant nitwits are allowed to spew their nonsense in public.
— Sarah Vowell
Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
— Sarah Vowell
The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.
— Sarah Vowell
The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
— Sarah Vowell
If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.
— Sarah Vowell
I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.
— Sarah Vowell
