Frases de Sarah Vowell

„Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to make friends I know.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Fonte: The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

„We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro Take the Cannoli

Fonte: Take the Cannoli

„I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without coffee, I'm nothing.“

—  Sarah Vowell

„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, livro Assassination Vacation

Fonte: Assassination Vacation

„Buffy's high school was built on top of a vortex of evil, the Hellmouth. And whose wasn't?“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Fonte: The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

„The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.“

—  Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

Fonte: The Wordy Shipmates

„There are two kinds of people in the world: the kind who alphabetize their record collections, and the kind who don't.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Fonte: The Partly Cloudy Patriot

„I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro Unfamiliar Fishes

Fonte: Unfamiliar Fishes

„The true American patriot is by definition skeptical of the government.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Fonte: The Partly Cloudy Patriot (2003)

„When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me around a lot, but boy, he sure can dance.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro Take the Cannoli

Fonte: Take the Cannoli

„Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro Assassination Vacation

Fonte: Assassination Vacation (2005), p. 208

„Behind every bad law, a deep fear.“

—  Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

Fonte: The Wordy Shipmates

„You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your lack of individuality.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro Assassination Vacation

Fonte: Assassination Vacation (2005), p. 144

„Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.“

—  Sarah Vowell, The Wordy Shipmates

Fonte: The Wordy Shipmates

„American history is a quagmire, and the more one knows, the quaggier the mire gets.“

—  Sarah Vowell

„That's what I like to call him, "the current president." I find it difficult to say or type his name, George W. Bush. I like to call him "the current president" because it's a hopeful phrase, implying that his administration is only temporary.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro Assassination Vacation

Fonte: Assassination Vacation

„Oh my dear, idealists are the cruelest monsters of them all.“

—  Sarah Vowell

„If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look better. I just wouldn't look like me.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro Take the Cannoli

Fonte: Take the Cannoli

„Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.“

—  Sarah Vowell, livro The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Fonte: The Partly Cloudy Patriot