Sarah Vowell Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we'll do after the initial treaty is signed, but we're still occupying. There's chaos and torture and finally an outcry.”

“Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure I mean no harm, clearly state that while I am obsessed with death, I am against it.”

“In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.”

“I hated the lost colony; in second grade, we were doing American History, and they said, We don't know what happened to them. That drove me nuts. That lost colony drove me crazy.”

“One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show tunes.”

“Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?”

“Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.”

“I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.”

“I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms.”

“I'm a big fan of editing and keeping only the interesting bits in.”