Quotes by : Sarah Vowell

Wainwright prayed to the graven image of Lafayette, since neither the president nor Congress seemed to....

In Woody Allen movies people stood in line for Ingmar Bergman films or Holocaust documentaries talking....

...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism.

After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of....

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

The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief. And by dangerous I don't mean thought-provoking.....

You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian....

I wish it were different. I wish that we privileged knowledge in politicians, that the ones who know....

But I can no longer ready any faith's Napoleonic saber rattling without picturing smoking rubble on cable....

I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything and I say that knowing that some of....