Sarah Vowell Quotes

Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

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• I play-acted and started performing, which just logically led to doing it in school, which led to studying it in college, which led to auditioning to the showcase in New York. And then I had an agent, and I was an actress.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • School
  • College
  • New York

• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Kid
  • Shot
  • Wrist

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Acting

• People aren't just paying more to fill their gas tanks or when they pay for their heating bills for their home; they are paying more at the grocery store, on air travel and for many other daily expenses.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • People
  • Home
  • Air

• Starting a new business will take its toll on your time and energy, and this can place strain on family and social relationships, depending on their expectations and how open you are in your communication with them.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Time
  • Family
  • Business

• The Democrats promised equalizing outcomes through unlimited federal assistance while Republicans offered something that seemed less tangible - the promise of equalizing opportunity through free markets.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Free
  • Opportunity
  • Promise

• I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.

  

  Dana Perino
  • World
  • Good
  • Country

• Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees.

  

  Karel Capek
  • You
  • Passionate
  • Hear

• I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Game
  • Way
  • Hustle

• During these two and a half years that have followed the war, the most urgent problem we have encountered was: to activate the public enterprises, to bring them up to the level that international markets demand and we are just now getting them prepared for privatization.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Up
  • War
  • Problem

• I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • Think
  • Same
  • Talk

• I'm very interested in compassion - compassion for oneself and others. I write about very complicated characters and experiences and try to do it without judging the character or the action.

  

  A.M. Homes
  • Character
  • Action
  • Compassion

• With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Happy
  • Freedom
  • Moon

• Scientology always makes me think of that movie 'V' where that woman takes off her mask of human flesh to reveal her true, alien self.

  

  Rick Astley
  • True
  • Movie
  • Woman

• Michael might have become a vampire, but watching him stand outside in the night air, breathing in his freedom Claire thought that was as human as it could get.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Night
  • Freedom
  • Air

• Justice? You get justice in the next world, in this world you have the law.

  

  William Gaddis
  • World
  • Law
  • Justice

• You must hand yourself and all your inward experiences, your temptations, your temperament, your frames and feelings, all over into the care of your God, and leave them there. He made you and therefore He understands you, and knows how to manage you, and you must trust Him to do it.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • God
  • Feelings
  • Temperament

• Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Dead
  • Unbelievable