I loved that these two guys argued with each other as if movies actually mattered. Nobody I knew talked about movies that way, but Siskel and Ebert took each movie as it came and talked about whether it was a success on its own terms. Sarah Vowell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further. Sarah Vowell Read Quote
In death, you get upgraded into a saint no matter how much people hated you in life. Sarah Vowell Read Quote
History is full of really good stories. That’s the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting. Sarah Vowell Read Quote
I didn’t come from any kind of academic background, but I lived in a college town and I knew people who weren’t without pretense. There was this idea in the town that if something was European it would be good. Sarah Vowell Read Quote
The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Civil War – when I really think about them, they all seem about as likely as the parting of the Red Sea. Sarah Vowell Read Quote
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who knew me from public radio. Those people are kind of old. Sarah Vowell Read Quote
