Sarah Vowell Quotes

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

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• There will always be spies. We have to have them. Without them we wouldn't have got Osama bin Laden - it took us years, but it happened.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Always
  • Years
  • Without

• My public in Guadalajara and the people from Guadalajara, they've supported me since day one.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Day
  • Public

• My dad's funny. He's laid back and a cool guy.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Dad

• I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Sleep
  • Fly
  • Ice Cream

• If I had my druthers, I would be a brain in a jar, with a burlap skirt around the cart I'm on - I don't attend to my physical being much.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Brain
  • Being
  • Physical

• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
  • Write

• Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Beauty
  • Gift
  • Whom

• Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Friend
  • President
  • Boss

• Coach Morris wasn't too hard on me, not at all. Being drafted where I was at, there were high expectations for me. I still have high expectations for myself.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Being
  • Hard
  • Coach

• If Russia did interfere in our election - and, by most accounts, they did - then it is imperative for the health of our democracy to have a thorough and unbiased investigation into the matter.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Health
  • Democracy
  • Election

• 'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Bad
  • Society
  • Wealth

• It's just my goal to deliver the best story I can, and I want to make sure each book is better than the last, and in order to do that, I have to take chances.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Book
  • Best
  • Goal

• Dennis Martinez's perfect game at Dodger Stadium, July 28, 1991, based off of video on mlb.com

  

  Vin Scully
  • Game
  • Perfect

• I can't shoot myself in the foot before I get in the chorus line.

  

  Lindsay Pearce

• I read Christopher McDougall's book 'Born to Run.' If running were a religion, this would be its bible. I actually scribbled my favorite passages on my arm to read during the race.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Book
  • Running
  • Bible

• The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Responsibility

• If you've got a guitar and a lot of soul, just bang something out and mean it. You're the superstar.

  

  Krist Novoselic Nirvana
  • Soul

• Not valuing wealth prevents theft.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Wealth
  • Prevents
  • Valuing

• Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Art
  • Students
  • Avoiding

• With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • World
  • Good
  • Interesting

• The interesting thing about the China story, getting back to the macro and micro, and as dire as I think the macro story is - due to bad credit and credit extension that makes Greece and Spain and the U.S. look like child's play - when you get to the micro of individual companies, they look even worse.

  

  James Chanos
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• We caught that individual and we proceeded to beat him brutally. And at one point when I was kicking him on the ground and his face was swollen, covered in blood, he opened his eyes and they connected with mine. that was the first time I felt empathy for one of my victims. And that was the last time I hurt anybody.

  

  Christian Picciolini
  • Eyes
  • Individual
  • Empathy

• History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Interesting
  • Reason
  • Stories