Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said th...
SARAH VOWELL We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid...
SARAH VOWELL Assassins and presidents invite the same basic question: Just who do you think you are?
SARAH VOWELL The only thing more dangerous than an idea is a belief.
SARAH VOWELL Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was e...
SARAH VOWELL Even writers need relief from words.
SARAH VOWELL History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to...
SARAH VOWELL Being a nerd, which is to say going too far and caring too much about a subject, is the best way to ...
SARAH VOWELL One night last summer, all the killers in my head assembled on a stage in Massachusetts to sing show...
SARAH VOWELL Jesus and Lincoln, Moses and Jefferson can seem so long gone, so unbelievable, so dead.
SARAH VOWELL Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
SARAH VOWELL The whole point of Louis Armstrong is that no one can really figure him out. There was a while where...
SARAH VOWELL A humble, bootstrappy patriot, Knox wooed, then married Lucy Flucker, the highbrow daughter of the L...
SARAH VOWELL I probably am a cranky writer, but I am actually a fairly nice, normal person. Since I'm a grouchy w...
SARAH VOWELL Back inside, I’m shown an antique cabinet in which members of the community, famous for their home...
SARAH VOWELL [In] Shooting Dad, ... There were years and years when he hid out by himself in the garage making ri...
SARAH VOWELL This American Life
SARAH VOWELL It's only been recently that I've become semi-convinced that you can (earn a living as a writer).
SARAH VOWELL Once a woman spilled a drink on me in an elevator, ... She was dancing and holding a mango margarita...
SARAH VOWELL It was such a great time for music. Being in college radio in the '80s, R.E.M. just happened, Elvis ...
SARAH VOWELL Heaven, such as it is, is right here on earth. Behold: my revelation: I stand at the door in the mor...
SARAH VOWELL Once, headed uptown on the 9 train, I noticed a sign posted by the Metropolitan Transit Authority ad...
SARAH VOWELL We go in to liberate Cuba, but Cuba still isn't free; we don't really think through what we&...
SARAH VOWELL I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who kne...
SARAH VOWELL I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go...
SARAH VOWELL You know you've reached a new plateau of group mediocrity when even a Canadian is alarmed by your la...
SARAH VOWELL If this fails to convince, I being out my secret weapon, announcing with portentous deliberation tha...
SARAH VOWELL David, you don't want to get rid of the cracks and the crevices in the building because that's where...
SARAH VOWELL There are people in this country who will argue that because of the demise of morals in general, and...
SARAH VOWELL ...I soon figured out that I should keep my qualms to myself. Christianity is no different from any ...
SARAH VOWELL You think this is a mess? New York is a mess! Why should it matter if I spill anything inside? The w...
SARAH VOWELL It was made clear to me that I wasn’t supposed to trouble the moody Creator with any pesky questio...
SARAH VOWELL I have a policy about that word "soul." It is strictly prohibited except in cases of converstations ...
SARAH VOWELL We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our ...
SARAH VOWELL That story is proof of the theorem that then as today in Chicago, the mysterious equation of whiskey...
SARAH VOWELL All those adorable towheaded kids in the promotional film are going to turn thirteen. Once a family ...
SARAH VOWELL Everyone says that love requires the utmost honesty, but that’s not entirely true. Once I knew tha...
SARAH VOWELL It's such a hopeful, almost utopian word, that word "phase." As if any minute, "we" would suffer som...
SARAH VOWELL The whole thing reminds me of graduate school seminars, except these people are smart and funny and ...
SARAH VOWELL ...there's nothing more depressing than bad capitalism.
SARAH VOWELL I am drawn to Tom Sawyer Island because a tribute to Mark Twain would not be out of place in a theme...
SARAH VOWELL It was made clear to me that I wasn't supposed to trouble the moody Creator with any pesky questions...
SARAH VOWELL A couple of days after the last time I saw him, I got a typically well-written postcard. He said tha...
SARAH VOWELL If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poe...
SARAH VOWELL I'm not really the scented envelope kid of girl, preferring instead to send yellow Jiffy-lite mailer...
SARAH VOWELL But truth be told, I'm not as dour-looking as I would like. I'm stuck with this round, sweetie-pie f...
SARAH VOWELL Clemenza's overriding responsibility is to his family. He takes a moment out of his routine madness ...
SARAH VOWELL A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about i...
SARAH VOWELL If I looked in the mirror someday and saw no dark circles under my eyes, I would probably look bette...
SARAH VOWELL I have a similar affection for the parenthesis (but I always take most of my parentheses out, so as ...
SARAH VOWELL When I think about my relationship with America, I feel like a battered wife: Yeah, he knocks me aro...
SARAH VOWELL While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So ...
SARAH VOWELL I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted...
SARAH VOWELL I no longer drink nearly as much as I used to but, still, my motto is Sine coffea nihil sum. Without...
SARAH VOWELL I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some ...
SARAH VOWELL Parliament would abolish slavery in the British Empire in 1833, thirty years before President Lincol...
SARAH VOWELL If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: mish...
SARAH CHURCHWELL When you go on vacation with people, you learn a lot about them.
SARAH MLYNOWSKI The Thames Torso murders almost fell into my lap. After deciding to use a real historical crime as t...
SARAH PINBOROUGH I've learnt that there's acting for film, acting for theatre, and acting for an audition.
SARAH SNOOK I think of myself not just as a dreamer, but as a dream chaser.
SARAH BRIGHTMAN We say keep your change, we'll keep our God, our guns, our constitution.
SARAH PALIN Most days it feels as if the world is whirling around me and I am standing still. In slow motion, I ...
SARAH KAY Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE If you've ever had anyone in your life who has been struggling with something, struggling with a...
SARAH GADON I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer becau...
SARAH WATERS Buck up or stay in the truck.
SARAH PALIN never stop playing
SARAH WINMAN Things happen. To everyone. No one escapes.
SARAH WINMAN Memories no matter how small or inconsequential are the pages that define us.
SARAH WINMAN I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull ...
SARAH PALIN Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, ...
SARAH CHURCHWELL You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.
SARAH DREW We had a very energetic floor manager and he was always jumping around all over the place. The direc...
SARAH SUTTON There's no reason for anybody to jump out of bushes to take pictures of me. I'm not doing an...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I think I've been called edgy - but in all honesty, there is a safety in what I do because I'...
SARAH SILVERMAN To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don...
SARAH PALIN If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or ...
SARAH ZETTEL I tend to be more arrogant on stage. Far more ignorant. I sometimes say what I think and sometimes s...
SARAH SILVERMAN To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann.
SARAH SHAHI I'm not a natural researcher, and I don't get bogged down in it, but I think if you get it r...
SARAH PINBOROUGH I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with...
SARAH PAULSON You can get a man's attention if you got a pair of boobs and a butt. I hate to simplify them dow...
SARAH SHAHI The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.
SARAH BROWN Fantasy is, of course, booming, and I think it's beginning to stretch its range as well.
SARAH ZETTEL My favourite pool is located in a remote valley in the eastern Lake District, surrounded by vine-hun...
SARAH HALL Sometimes you have to allow yourself to be helpless.
SARAH NOFFKE It's okay to accept things from people. It doesn't make you weak or helpless.
SARAH DESSEN Swimming in the U.K. is not really about enjoying a sultry experience. It's about cold, clear ac...
SARAH HALL In 'Bras & Broomsticks,' Rachel Weinstein gets the shock of her life when she discovers ...
SARAH MLYNOWSKI My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night f...
SARAH ZETTEL The earth sometimes rewards humans who do good works for the planet. Look out for unexpected windfal...
SARAH RAJKOTWALA To not have any hope is where things start to get really bleak. Things are possible. The impossible ...
SARAH PAULSON Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humani...
SARAH NOFFKE You've got to let people be just, you know, people. Everyone does bad things sometimes, for all sort...
SARAH DUNN If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they ...
SARAH FIELDING [The Old Astronomer to His Pupil]

Reach me down my SARAH WILLIAMS If I should have a daughter…“Instead of “Mom”, she’s gonna call me “Point B.” Because ...
SARAH KAY When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not ...
SARAH DESSEN Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling ...
SARAH WATERS Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved the stars too ...
SARAH WILLIAMS But you don’t have to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.”
“You don’t have to assum...
SARAH DESSEN But once in a while, you pick the right thing, the exact best thing. Every day, the moment you open ...
SARAH OCKLER The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.
SARAH DESSEN I have seen the best of you, and the worst of you, and I choose both.
SARAH KAY He wasn't the type for displays of affection, either verbal or not. He was disgusted by couples that...
SARAH DESSEN Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.
SARAH DESSEN So you're always honest," I said.
"Aren't you?"
"No," I told him. "I'm not."
"Well, t...
SARAH DESSEN If school results were the key to power, girls would be running the world.
SARAH BOSELEY There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single f...
SARAH DESSEN And that was it. All this buildup to a great leap, and I didn't fall or fly. Instead I found myself ...
SARAH DESSEN You, have this whole tall, dark stranger thing going on. Not to mention the tortured artist bit.
SARAH DESSEN But it was okay not to fit in everywhere, as long as you did somewhere.
SARAH DESSEN Okay,' he said. He took a breath. 'What would you do, if you could do anything?'
I took a step ...
SARAH DESSEN The choices you make now, the people you surround yourself with, they all have the potential to affe...
SARAH DESSEN But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ...
SARAH DESSEN I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not...
SARAH DESSEN But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you anoth...
SARAH DESSEN But if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you know? You have to h...
SARAH DESSEN I don't know. Just because someone's pretty doesn't mean she's decent. Or vice versa. I'm not into a...
SARAH DESSEN I don't get it,' Caroline said, bemused. 'She's the only one with wings. Why is that?'
There we...
SARAH DESSEN If this was my forever, I wouldn't want to spend it here.
SARAH DESSEN the truth about forever is that it is happening right now
SARAH DESSEN Life can be long or short, it all depends on how you choose to live it. it's like forever, always ch...
SARAH DESSEN I have to admit, an unrequited love is so much better than a real one. I mean, it's perfect... As lo...
SARAH DESSEN Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.
SARAH DESSEN We'd start slow, the way we always did, because the run, and the game, could go on for awhile. Maybe...
SARAH DESSEN What you have to decide... is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, wou...
SARAH DESSEN But I'd long ago learned not to be picky in farewells. They weren't guaranteed or promised.
Yo...
SARAH DESSEN Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
SARAH DESSEN It was just one of those things," I said, "You know, that just happen. You don't think or plan. You ...
SARAH DESSEN What you need, what you deserve, is a guy who adores you for what you are. Who doesn't see you as a ...
SARAH DESSEN Some people, they can't just move on, you know, mourn and cry and be done with it. Or at least seem ...
SARAH DESSEN I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.
SARAH DESSEN It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end...
SARAH DESSEN That was the thing. You never got used to it, the idea of someone being gone. Just when you think it...
SARAH DESSEN It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the ...
SARAH DESSEN If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the w...
SARAH DESSEN There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd bet...
SARAH DESSEN I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
SARAH WILLIAMS All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bit...
SARAH DESSEN I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, ...
SARAH DESSEN Don't think or judge, just listen.
SARAH DESSEN There are two types of humans in this world: those who function so they can get something and those ...
SARAH NOFFKE I wondered if emotions were like menstrual cycles, if you get enough women together. Give it time, a...
SARAH DESSEN How it felt to have the world moving beneath me, a hand gripping mine, knowing if I fell, at least I...
SARAH DESSEN Home wasn't a set house, or a single town on a map. It was wherever the people who loved you were, w...
SARAH DESSEN There are some things in this world you rely on, like a sure bet. And when they let you down, shifti...
SARAH DESSEN If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and eve...
SARAH DESSEN She was an idiot. An adorable, gorgeous, feisty, funny, sweet, sexy idiot.
SARAH MAYBERRY You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.
SARAH DESSEN You are an author, a public figure. You are going to be judged no matter what you write, so live you...
SARAH GERDES For someone who is far from God, silence is a difficult confrontation with his own self and with the...
ROBERT SARAH Life is full of screwups. You're supposed to fail sometimes. It's a required part of the human exist...
SARAH DESSEN Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you.
SARAH DESSEN If you expect the worst, you'll never be disappointed.
SARAH DESSEN It shouldn't be easy to be amazing. Then everything would be. It's the things you fight for and stru...
SARAH DESSEN I've never met a problem a proper cupcake couldn't fix.
SARAH OCKLER Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and a...
SARAH DESSEN He thought about this for a second. "True. But if you never really make friends, you probably don't ...
SARAH DESSEN Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who c...
SARAH DESSEN You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those ...
SARAH DESSEN No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to giv...
SARAH DESSEN Love is needing someone. Love is putting up with someone's bad qualities because they somehow comple...
SARAH DESSEN I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I...
SARAH MACLEAN I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?"
"Like I said," he ...
SARAH DESSEN All the pictures that hung in my memory before I knew you have faded and given place to our radient ...
SARAH BERNHARDT Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes t...
SARAH CALDWELL I have, thanks to my travels, added to my stock all the superstitions of other countries. I know the...
SARAH BERNHARDT Reach me down my Tycho Brahe, I would know him when we meet,
When I share my later science, sitti...
SARAH WILLIAMS For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w...
SARAH BERNHARDT The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily prop...
SARAH BERNHARDT The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to rig...
SARAH BERNHARDT New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and per...
SARAH BERNHARDT You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the strivin...
SARAH BERNHARDT America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that...
SARAH PALIN We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have ...
SARAH BERNHARDT As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill.
SARAH CHURCHILL I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America.
SARAH BERNHARDT Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when ...
SARAH CALDWELL I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only le...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is he...
SARAH MCLACHLAN There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God.
SARAH MILES Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Bec...
SARAH DESSEN Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memo...
SARAH DESSEN I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft lan...
SARAH DESSEN If the mind is open and awake then.... do the gods partake to fill the spaces inbetween the dreamer ...
SARAH PERE Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
SARAH BERNHARDT This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in ...
SARAH DESSEN I don't lie."
"You don't lie," I repeated.
"That's what I said."
"Ever."
"Nope."...
SARAH DESSEN for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world...
SARAH DESSEN My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&...
SARAH GADON I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, ...
SARAH DESSEN My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then ne...
SARAH WATERS Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotion...
SARAH CHURCHWELL The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, d...
SARAH MACLEAN We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity...
SARAH PALIN It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to sw...
SARAH CHALKE There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be ab...
SARAH MCLACHLAN I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who w...
SARAH PAULSON