Sarah Vowell Quotes

But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

Sarah Vowell

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• Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I never believe them when they say that because you really have to sort of be aware of what's going on in the news in order to get the jokes on the show.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Believe
  • Never
  • News

• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Want
  • Something
  • Go

• I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • Time
  • Father
  • House

• I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Like
  • Afraid
  • Someone

• I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Think
  • Model
  • Young

• You can't be new for too long. You want to just respectfully disappear. It's a bit sad sometimes. Michael Jordan retired like a god, and then he came back... We don't want to go out like that.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • God
  • Long
  • Sad

• According to the Social Security Administration, in 1945, 41.9 workers supported each individual retiree, while today only 3.3 workers support each retiree. This system cannot continue.

  

  Larry Elder
  • Today
  • Support
  • Security

• I go to Japan every November on vacation, and the one thing I never return home without is yuba, which is the thin skin that forms atop boiling soy milk. You skim it off and either eat it fresh or dry it.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Home
  • Never
  • Vacation

• The majority of my work is about preparation.

  

  Taryn Simon
  • Work
  • Preparation
  • Majority

• Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • Truth
  • Law
  • Single

• I believe firmly in the efficacy of religion, in its powerful influence on a person's whole life. It helps immeasurably to meet the storms and stress of life and keep you attuned to the Divine inspiration. Without inspiration, we would perish.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Powerful

• Every man and every woman is a star.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Star

• Existence is illusory and it is eternal.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Existence
  • Eternal
  • Illusory

• I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • Home
  • American

• The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • World

• You need to gain the confidence that you're doing enough on film. You must resist the temptation to do too much.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Confidence
  • Temptation

• Thursday night football should be illegal.

  

  Doug Baldwin
  • Night
  • Football
  • Thursday

• My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

  

  Brittany Howard
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• You make sacrifices to become a mother, but you really find yourself and your soul.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Mother
  • Soul

• Learn to be as analytical about things of which you are credulous as you are of those which you criticise.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Things
  • Learn
  • Credulous

• We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Success
  • Be Happy

• Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

  

  Eugene O'Neill
  • I Love
  • Critics
  • Heads

• But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Silence
  • Quiet
  • Stranger