Sarah Vowell Quotes

American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.

Sarah Vowell

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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.

Candace Camp
If you look at the history of large financial institutions, most of them have succeeded because of a deep presence in their home market.

Uday Kotak
- Home
- History
- Deep
I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.

Nathan Fillion
- Time
- God
- School
I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

Tadao Ando
- People
- World
- Believe
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.

Harry Browne
- History
- Liberty
- Security
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.

Orhan Pamuk
- World
- Good
- History