Best Sarah Vowell Sayings
- Winthrop and his shipmates and their children and their children's children just wrote their own books and pretty much kept their noses in them up… Book
- In the U.S.A., we want to sing along with the chorus and ignore the verses, ignore the blues. . . No one is going to… Along
- However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch – American flag place mats, patriotic “body crystals,” flag… All
- Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of… Agent
- In these fast and fickle times, it’s nice to know that there are some things you can always count on: the enduring brilliance of the… Affleck
- Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't? Built
- You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality. Alarmed
- Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History… Bunch
- That's what we Americans do when we find a place that's really special. We go there and act exactly like ourselves. And we are a… Act
- Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals… Along
- The modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top Bittersweet
- Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship. Along
- 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… Best
- 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… America
- If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris… All
- Radio is the playground of coincidence. Coincidence
- The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. Belief
- My lips are chapped from the winds of change. Change
- But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on… Around Strangers
- The people who visit the [Lincoln] memorial always look like an advertisement for democracy, so bizarrely, suspiciously diverse that one time I actually saw a… Actually Saw
- Robert Todd Lincoln, a.k.a. Jinxy McDeath. Funny
- I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only… Buddha
- Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'? Crypt
- No cowboys for Canada. Canada got Mounties instead - Dudley Do-Right, not John Wayne. It's a mind-set of "Here I come to save the day"… Canada
- 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… All