Sarah Vowell Quotes

Even writers need relief from words.

Sarah Vowell

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• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
  • Career

• My grandma passed away at 98 1/2 and I want to live to 100. I want to be able to do what I can do even at 100.

  Gail Devers
  • Live
  • Want
  • I Can

• Honestly, I try and stay away from what's been written about me, because if you let that stuff get to you and it's not true it can drive you crazy. One thing that I have heard recently which is not true, I didn't say it, is that I believe I was quote saying 'I will never take my shirt off for a movie again.' I didn't say that.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Believe
  • True
  • Crazy

• Literally, when I go to the vocal coach, I'm like, 'You are teaching me nothing.' You know?

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Know
  • Teaching
  • Coach

• Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.

  

  Vijay Sethupathi
  • Up
  • Important
  • Why

• In its haste to bolster nationalism, in its obsession with security, Europe is losing its soul.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Soul
  • Security
  • Losing

• Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mom

• I want to improve my bunker, fairway and putting status because that's been my weakness over the last three years. If I can just focus on this, then everything else will come.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Want
  • Focus
  • Three

• Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Sea

• It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Mother
  • Hand
  • Baby

• The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Serious
  • Practice

• 'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • God
  • Journey

• If sentiment doesn't ultimately make fibbers of some people, their natural abominable memories almost certainly will.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Memories

• Spangling the wave with lights as vainAs pleasures in the vale of pain,That dazzle as they fade.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Pain

• If I had omitted setting down something of that which has appeared to me as clear, so that the knowledge would perish when I perish, as is inevitable, I should have considered that conduct as extremely cowardly with regard to you and everyone who is perplexed.

  

  Maimonides
  • Knowledge

• Every time I open a child's head and see a brain, I marvel at the mystery: This is what makes every one of us who we are. This is what hold all our memories, all our thoughts, all our dreams. This is what makes us different from each other in millions of ways.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Brain

• I've actually had people come up to me and ask me to autograph their guns.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • People
  • Up

• From a distance he had the bland aspect of a philanthropist.

  

  Agatha Christie
  • Distance

• So many men have so many times predicted the time of the end of the Rebellion, and been mistaken, that I will not do so now; but I can say it will be very soon, if the old regiments are filled up.

  

  Ambrose Burnside
  • Up
  • Time
  • Men

• Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. 1

  

  Alan Watts
  • Church

• I have my way of dealing with lows in my career: I just go on a holiday. Coping with a failure of a film is like coping with a break-up. It's sad and heart-breaking, and it's not like I got over it right after my holiday; it took me some time.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Heart

• I see all these students, and I admire them - they're trying to learn something, they go to school, they do film school, they go on shoots, they help. I'm sure they learn a lot, and some of them, it makes them aware of what they wish to do. I was - that's the way I was - autodidact.

  

  Agnes Varda
  • Trying
  • School
  • Help

• At the entrance to the original tower, there is a stone into which Jung carved some words with his own hand: 'Cold or not, God is present.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Words
  • Present
  • God Is

• Even writers need relief from words.

  

  Sarah Vowell
  • Words
  • Writers