Sarah Vowell Quotes

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.

Sarah Vowell

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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.

  

  Sallust
  • War
  • Risk
  • Battle

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Important
  • Pretty

• My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Cool

• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Powerful
  • Rich
  • Crush

• Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • You
  • Embrace

• The whole world is determined by trade - which is really the blood of the world. The driving force is everyone's desire to have a better life. How? By consuming. For countries, the 'Holy Grail' is economic growth.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• The place where you're from defines who you are. You put yourself in the wrong situation, the wrong things happen.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Yourself
  • Place
  • Situation

• Marriage is not a noun; it's a verb. It isn't something you get. It's something you do. It's the way you love your partner every day.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Marriage
  • For Her

• I am walking proof of the power of prayer.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Power
  • Prayer
  • Walking

• There are people who have energy that say 'don't come near me, don't get too close.' There's people like Adrienne Shelley who have the energy of 'come over here and give me a hug and if you're around me you're going to be happy about it.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • People
  • Happy
  • Energy

• Be very, very patient and very open-minded, and listen to what people have to say.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Listen
  • Open-minded

• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • World
  • War
  • Training

• Honor your daughters. They are honorable.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Women
  • Honor
  • Honorable

• When we make the show, we are always talking about how the show is really in between what we make and what the viewer thinks of it.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • Always
  • Talking
  • Thinks

• It doesn't need to be a No 1 show, it just needs to be good.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Good
  • Need
  • Show

• When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmother.

  

  Karen Bender
  • Time
  • College
  • Grandmother

• When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Disease
  • Close
  • Diagnosed

• So somebody told me that if I wasn't a coffee drinker yet, by the end of college I'd have to be, because a math major is so tough I would have to stay up very late. I was going to need coffee to do that. Well, merely because they said that, I never drank coffee in college, never got addicted to it, never needed it.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Up
  • College
  • End

• What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbor? ... The real Love knows her neighbor face to face, and laughs with him and weeps with him, and eats and drinks with him, so that at last, when his black day dawns, she may share with him, not what she can spare, but all that she has.

  

  Stella Benson
  • Black
  • Secret
  • Charity

• The first step - especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money - the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.

  

  Chuck Palahniuk
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• This is going to sound horrible, but I don't even know how much I make in a year. It must be, you know, a couple of million dollars, a few million. I know it's more money than my dad, a jail guard, made in his lifetime; more money than I'll ever need.

  

  Penn Jillette
  • Money
  • Dad
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Coffee
  • Drink
  • Motto