Sarah Vowell Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I resist the urge to raise my hand and utter the four most reassuring words in the English language: I know a guy.
Technically, it's a family restaurant, but it will only remind you of your family if your mom chain-smoked menthols.
When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.
History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.
The air has that bracing autumnal bite so that all you want to do is bob for apples or hang a witch or something.
I revere the Bill of Rights, but at the same time I believe that anyone who's using three or more of them at a time is hogging them too much. (152)
Lafayette took umbrage - just gobs and gobs of umbrage - at the patriots' vilification of his countrymen for leaving Newport.
I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailers packed with whatever song is on my mind.
I have watched enough science fiction films to accept that humanity's unchecked pursuit of learning will end with robots taking over the world.
There is something aesthetically pleasing about trading one engraving - and old map - for another - American money.
I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates.
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.
Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
I suspect that the day a person gives up on the Geneva Convention is the day a person gives up on the human race.
I like that the Mall serves as our national Tuppaware, reliable and empty, waiting to be filled with potluck whatever.
After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.
Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?
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.
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.
Never have I enjoyed such swearing, before or since. Sir, on that memorable day, he swore like an angel from Heaven.
[I]deas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences.
One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.
We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.
You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.
Freedom of expression truly exists only when a society's most repugnant nitwits are allowed to spew their nonsense in public.
I have a policy about that word "soul." It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations having to do with okra recipes or Marvin Gaye.
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.
This is the derivation of that old Yankee proverb that if you can sell a book, you can move sixty tons of weaponry three hundred miles in winter
I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.
there is anything to be learned from the conspiracy - other than when in doubt, bet on George Washington - it is to beware the pitfalls of certainty.
The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and have something interesting to say.
A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the Loyalist governor of the province of Massachusetts.
it may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces.