Sarah Vowell Quotes

What are you hiding? No one ever asks that.
Sarah Vowell

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Sarah Vowell

Nice, Slaves, Ski

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

Night, Last, Show

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Sarah Vowell

Life, Happiness, Time

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

Same, Question, Basic

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.
Sarah Vowell

Good, History, Reason

I didn't come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren't without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good.
Sarah Vowell

Good, College, Idea

I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
Sarah Vowell

Focus, Wanted, Write

I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old.
Sarah Vowell

Daily, Before, Old

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.
Sarah Vowell

History, Crazy, Lost

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.
Sarah Vowell

Success, Movies, Two

I seem to have no problem revealing my crush on the man who murdered Lincoln.
Sarah Vowell

Problem, Crush, Seem

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed.
Sarah Vowell

Big, Reader, Closed

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

Big, Fan, Keeping

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

Life, Death, Matter

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

Long, Jesus, Dead

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
Sarah Vowell

Before, Said, Again

Most people don't like to talk about violent historical death.
Sarah Vowell

Death, Talk, Historical

My audience is going to die before I do.
Sarah Vowell

Die, Before, Audience

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.
Sarah Vowell

Death, Mean, Against

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.
Sarah Vowell

Life, Success, American

Relics are treasured as something close to the divine.
Sarah Vowell

Close, Divine, Relics

The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War-when I really think about them they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea.
Sarah Vowell

Sea, Seem, Parting

The one time I was an actor, it happened to be in a globally dominant juggernaut. That was lucky.
Sarah Vowell

Time, Actor, Lucky

The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where I thought you could try.
Sarah Vowell

Him, Thought, Try

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Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: December 27, 1969

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