English En
  • Deutsche De
  • English En
  • Français Fr
  • Русский Ru

We use cookies to personalise content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our marketing and analytics partners who may combine it with other information you've provided to them or which they've separately collected from you. You also may to see our Privacy Policy. By clicking the OK button below, you accept our cookies.

Authors:

Sarah Vowell Quotes

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

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. Christopher Morley
When we moved to Seattle, everybody kind of disappeared into different corners of the city and it was a very difficult time for the band. Ben Gibbard
All the rest of us - you and me and even the thousands of soldiers behind the lines in Africa - we want terribly yet only academically for the war to get over. Ernie Pyle
You could make a case that women addicted men to their sexuality and then withdrew their sexuality until we provided them with a source of income. Warren Farrell
Kurt Vonnegut quote: "Dammit, you've got to be kind."
Dammit, you've got to be kind. Kurt Vonnegut
Justin Bieber quote: "It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me...."
It's cool when fans spend so much time making things for me. It means a lot. Justin Bieber
Allen Ginsberg quote: "we're all golden sunflowers inside."
we're all golden sunflowers inside. Allen Ginsberg
I believe that dance communicates man's deepest, highest and most truly spiritual thoughts and emotions far better than words, spoken or written. Ted Shawn
Christopher Parker quote: "I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for..."
I did loads of student films and fringe theatre. I worked for free a lot. Christopher Parker
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be. Jack Black
Half an hour afterwards Dick emerged from the inn, and if Fancy's lips had been real cherries, probably Dick's would have appeared deeply stained. Thomas Hardy
There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed. John Negroponte
Alan Cox quote: "Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were..."
Live fast, die old, and make very sure everyone knows you were there. Alan Cox
Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that; you are so infirm, you cannot concentrate your mind,' etc. Never allow bodily infirmities to hinder you obeying the commands of Jesus. Oswald Chambers
Geraldine Ferraro quote: "President Reagan's one-liners were terrific."
President Reagan's one-liners were terrific. Geraldine Ferraro