Sarah Vowell Quotes
Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
Quotes to Explore
-
America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
-
I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
-
I am a little obsessed with surprise kitty.
-
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
-
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
-
We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
-
I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when I'm looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.
-
It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors to do Chinese films.
-
I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.
-
No one's ever happy with their position in Hollywood. You hear that from people you'd never dream would complain.
-
I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
-
Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.
-
I don't have goals in life.
-
It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.
-
I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.
-
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.
-
The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.
-
Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
-
I started to learn Greek when I was in high school, the last year of high school, by accident, because my teacher knew Greek and she offered to teach me on the lunch hour, so we did it in an informal way, and then I did it at university, and that was the main thing of my life.
-
You want people to identify with the person on the screen or in the theater, but you don't want them to identify with you as a person.
-
When I started Black Girls Code in 2011, there weren't any programs that had a foundation in communities of color to teach our kids about technology.
-
What's so fascinating about New Yorkers is that each person has a whole lexicon of personal logic in the way that they decipher and do what has to be done to enjoy, stay alive, take pleasure in this place.
-
Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?
