Best Sarah Vowell Quotes
- Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead. Dead
- Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death. Death
- My audience is going to die before I do. Audience
- Relics are treasured as something close to the divine. Close
- Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure… Agent
- Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge. Abraham
- One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes. All
- Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot. Ballot
- Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness to remember that he had promised his wife that… Bring
- 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. Envelope
- Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when… Aztec
- 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… Better
- But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie face, tiny heart-shaped lips, the daintiest dimples,… Across
- I talk about going to [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to… Afraid
- Despite his consistent party-line voting record, some independents and Democrats still think of Senator McCain as the most palatable, independent-minded Republican. But this is the… Called
- A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it… Called
- Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all. All
- When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons… All
- That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like… Administration
- 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. Coffee
- Behind every bad law, a deep fear. Bad
- I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as not to call undue attention to… Affection
- The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government. American
- American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets. American
- Once or twice a day, I am enveloped inside what I like to call the Impenetrable Shield of Melancholy. This shield, it is impenetrable. Hence… Call