Sarah Vowell Quotes

There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

Sarah Vowell

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• The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Complexity
  • Explode

• Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Time
  • Always
  • Try

• Television has shied away from being too dark, because so much has happened to us recently here in the West, and people are sort of wanting to see more uplifting sorts of things.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
  • Dark
  • Television

• The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.

  

  Francesco Totti
  • Life
  • Important
  • Player

• The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • Truth
  • American
  • America

• People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Music
  • God
  • Art

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Strong
  • Fear
  • Interesting

• Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Sin
  • Lie
  • Tools

• I'm very open about the fact that it's nice when someone says you're pretty. Especially for someone like me.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Pretty
  • Nice
  • Fact

• I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Future
  • Day
  • Journey

• It saddens me to know that I jeopardized the welfare of the kind people of Hawaii, a community that I love and call my home.

  

  Daniel Dae Kim
  • People
  • Know
  • Kind

• Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Commitment
  • Virtue
  • Blind

• As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • You
  • Actor
  • Looking

• Here’s a pot with a cot in a parkIn a park where the peach-blossoms blew,Where the lovers eloped in the dark,Lived, died and were changed into twoBright birds that eternally flewThrough the boughs of the may, as they sang;’T is a tale was undoubtedly trueIn the reign of the Emperor Hwang.

  

  Andrew Lang
  • May
  • Dark

• Do it right or don't do it at all. That comes from my mom. If there's something I want to do, I'm one of those people that won't be satisfied until I get it done. If I'm trying to sing something and I can't get it, I'm going to keep at it until I get where I want it.

  

  Ray Charles
  • People
  • Trying
  • Done

• As a writer, I'm limitless.

  

  Kelly Masterson

• All through the kind of late '80s and '90s, every A&R record company man was saying, 'Now what we want is another record like 'Back in the High Life.' And, of course, that's not the way to make music at all. That's the tail wagging the dog.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
  • Life
  • Music
  • High

• This is a pivotal moment for our communities, our country and our future... This is the moment when we unmask those inequalities and injustices and chart a new path toward a more just nation.

  

  Derrick Johnson
  • Moments
  • Injustices
  • Inequalities

• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• ~You know how parents rattle on to you about, 'Oh, you won't believe your life will never be the same,' and you think, Why can't these people just get over it? All they're doing is yakking about their kids. It's such a bore. And then you have kids and you just want to do the same thing.~

  

  Uma Thurman
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• I'm always keeping an eye out for a period piece. I was trained in theatre, so most of the things we did were classical - Shakespeare, Moliere, and Chekhov.

  

  Dagmara Dominczyk
  • Always
  • Eye
  • Period

• There are people who look forward to spending their sunset years in the sunshine; it is my own retirement dream to await my death indoors, dragging strangers up dusty staircases while coughing up one of the most thrilling phrases in the English language: 'It was on this spot…' My fantasy is to one day become a docent.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • People
  • Dream
  • Retirement