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

His boss, Isaac (Robert Guillaume), agrees but tells him to do it anyway “because it’s television and this is how it’s done.” Dan replies, “Yeah, well, sitting in the back of the bus was how it was done until a forty-two-year-old lady moved up front.” A few minutes later Isaac looks Dan in the eye and tells him, “Because I love you I can say this. No rich young white guy has ever gotten anywhere with me comparing himself to Rosa Parks.” Finally, the voice of reason, which of course was heard on a canceled network TV series on cable.

Sarah Vowell

About author

Related Authors

Topics

Quotes currently Trending

Our problem with President Obama isn't that he's a bad person. By all accounts, he too is a good husband, and a good father - and thanks to lots of practice, a pretty good golfer. Marco Rubio
Brigitte Bardot quote: "I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman..."
I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals. Brigitte Bardot
Philip Larkin quote: "It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long..."
It never worked for me. Something to do with violence A long way back, and wrong rewards, And arrogant eternity. Philip Larkin
Thomas S. Monson quote: "Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present."
Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present. Thomas S. Monson
I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before. Aaron Eckhart
Cary Grant quote: "Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary..."
Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant," Grant is said to have replied, "So would I. Cary Grant
Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is. Mae West
Teach your scholar to observe the phenomena of nature; you will soon rouse his curiosity, but if you would have it grow, do not be in too great a hurry to satisfy this curiosity. Put the problems before him and let him solve them himself. Let him know nothing because you have told him, but because he has learnt it for himself. Let him not be taught science, let him discover it. If ever you substitute authority for reason he will cease to reason; he will be a mere plaything of other people's... Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Edith Wharton quote: "Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or..."
Two ways to be a light for all, is to be a flaming candle or the mirror that reflects it Edith Wharton
The Standard of Truth has been erected; no unhallowed hand can stop the work from progressing; persecutions may rage, mobs may combine, armies may assemble, calumny may defame, but the truth of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent, till it has penetrated every continent, visited every clime, swept every country, and sounded in every ear, till the purposes of God shall be accomplished, and the Great Jehovah shall say the work is done. Joseph Smith, Jr.
Charles Baudelaire quote: "In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory,..."
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us. Charles Baudelaire
China Chow quote: "I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even..."
I don't want to do television. A TV show sitcom? I don't even watch TV. China Chow
The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about. Charles James
Samuel Butler quote: "The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few..."
The healthy stomach is nothing if it is not conservative. Few radicals have good digestions. Samuel Butler
Seymoure Cray quote: "The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a..."
The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late. Seymoure Cray