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Sarah Vowell Quotes

In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 27, 1969

Topics

Life Death People You Matter Get

Philosophies change by the day while God never changes, simply because, being perfect, He does not have to change!

Change God Day Perfect Never Being

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

Time Me Writing Free Desk Something

Remember that a painting - before it is a battle horse, a nude model, or some anecdote - is essentially a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order.

Painting Battle Horse Remember Order

There's a discipline. When you take someone's portrait, you don't have to take 50 photographs, just find that one so that when you release the shutter, that's the image that you took.

Discipline Someone Portrait You Find

My best time to write is right after coffee and breakfast - four eggs - because, full disclosure, I'm really a komodo dragon - and that's because then I'm energized but not so awake that the critical voice clicks on, the voice that sometimes says, 'Don't write that,' or, 'Man, that sentence is terrible - you should give up and go pet the cats.'

Jeff Vandermeer

Time Coffee Best Cats Pet Man

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

Back Lost Out Driver Used Horrible

I grew up on a set and saw my family doing it and thought, 'I can do that too.'

Family Thought Doing I Can Up Saw

Elvis said, Miss Minnie, do you think it would be out of order if I go up and speak to General Stewart? I've always been such a fan of his. So Elvis went up to speak to the Stewarts.

Speak Think You Go Said Out

When my kids were young, we could move and experience different countries and, in my case, different clubs and different football, but there is a moment when they need some stability.

Moment Experience Football Young

Usually, my favorite joke is whichever joke I most recently came up with that surprised me the first time I thought of it.

Time Me Thought First Time First Up

Our healthcare system has seen some of the greatest achievements of the human intellect since we started recording history: We're developing incredible devices and implantables to improve the quantity and quality of people's lives.

History Quality People Healthcare

I've spent enough time in the business community to know there are certain regulators who are very constructive in their approach - those who enforce the laws and who actually want to help you comply - and there are others who have a prosecutorial attitude.

Attitude Business Community Time You

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