Crush Quote by Sarah Vowell Download Open image “I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.” — Sarah Vowell ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crush Lincoln Man No problem Problem Revealing Seem Who
When I was a child I had a crush on Abraham Lincoln. Why I would choose to reveal this, I know not. — Julia Roberts Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There's been more written about Lincoln than movies made about him or television portraying him. He's kind of a stranger to our industry, to this medium. You have to go back to the 1930s to find a movie that's just about Abraham Lincoln. I just found that my fascination with Lincoln, which started as a child, got to the point… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share
There were so many odd, strange things about Abraham Lincoln that I think nobody knew how to pigeonhole him. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
In making up my mind as to what Mr. Lincoln really believed, I do not take into consideration the evidence of unnamed persons or… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
There is a great overlap of tragedy that played out through the generations of the Lincolns. That, coupled with the idea that many people… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer. — Belle Boyd Copy Share Image
Killing Lincoln is a must-read historical thriller. Bill O'Reilly recounts the dramatic events of the spring of 1865 with such exhilarating immediacy that you… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Lincoln would be just like me. He wouldn't know what the hell to do. — George W. Norris Copy Share Image
“She is either male property (Mrs.), wannabe male property (Miss), or man-hating harpy (Ms.).” — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“We were breathing sooty air. The soot was composed of incinerated glass and steel but also, we knew, incinerated human flesh. When the local TV news announced that rescue workers sorting through the rubble in search of survivors were in need of toothpaste, half my block, having heard that there was finally something we could actually do besides worry and… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share
“After Hymns and tears, they boarded the brig Thaddeus, a vessel so crappy, it made the Mayflower look like the QE2.” — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The last line of Hawaii's Story by Hawaii's Queen is addressed to the American people and their congressmen. "As they deal with me and my people, kindly, generously, and justly, so may the Great Ruler of all nations deal with the grand and glorious nation of the United States of America." It's clever to imply that if the U.S. swallows… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share
“In the gravedigger scene in act V, Hamlet looks upon an anonymous skull and jokes that even Alexander the Great decomposed into dust that… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“Another reason I’m intrigued with the hanged of Salem, especially the women, is that a number of them aroused suspicion in the first place… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Listening to the radio every day for an entire year was a prison sentence. It was the most depressing, annoying, debilitating project I have… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
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… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
“The historical periods I like to learn about aren’t so much costume dramas as slasher flicks. The French Revolution is a favorite because it features the beloved plot of carnage in service of democracy, but I prefer American history. And if I had to pick my pet domestic bloodbaths, nothing beats Salem or Gettysburg. I’m a sucker for Puritan New… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share
While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
Each child’s story is worthy of telling. There shouldn’t be a sliding scale of death. The weight of it is crushing. — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
I had to smile when stories emerged questioning whether I was gay. Obviously I knew I wasn't but people were curiously desperate to suggest… — Daniel Radcliffe Copy Share Image
I already know that u know that I like u, the question is Wat r u going to do with that information. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“My mom believed that you make your own luck. Over the stove she had hung these old, maroon painted letters that spell out, “MANIFEST.” The idea being if you thought and dreamed about the way you wanted your life to be -- if you just envisioned it long enough, it would come into being. But as hard as I had… — Emmy Laybourne Copy Share
I'm very disturbed to find out that the leader of the Townies has a soul and I'm beginning to develop a bit of a… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
My dream would be to hear rocks at my window n to look out and see u just standing there, in the pouring rain. — Blondie Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
...It's an unmeetable level of writing. But even if it's something I feel like I can't ever attain, it doesn't crush my spirit. I… — Paul Banks Copy Share Image
Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs. With this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degradation… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
