Sarah Vowell Partly Cloudy Patriot Quotes & Sayings

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. — Richie Norton

I'd originally intended 'Stand By Me' for the Drifters. — Ben E. King

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment. — Matt Damon

Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Tax day was yesterday. And marijuana growers are complaining that they can't write off a single expense thanks to federal laws. Well, apparently someone tried to claim the Phish tour as his home office and that's not going to happen. — Conan O'Brien

The idea of massive amounts of fame-having my face on Walgreens end-caps and pizza boxes-I don't fantasize about that. I'm happy with just being a songwriter. I'd rather have smaller numbers [of fans] that are really into what I'm doing than a massive amount of people that don't really know what I'm about. — Kacey Musgraves

For the only courage worth calling courage must necessarily mean that the soul passes a breaking point and does not break. — G.K. Chesterton

I can't blame modern technology for my predilection for distraction, not after all the hours I've spent watching lost balloons disappear into the clouds. I did it before the Internet, and I'll do it after the apocalypse, assuming we still have helium and weak-gripped children. — Colson Whitehead

The temple that was standing in Jesus' time was destroyed by the Romans in AD 70. Many evangelical Christians are waiting eagerly for the Jews to build a new temple, seeing that as a sign of the end of the age. They fail to understand that the temple already has been rebuilt. Christ is the temple, the locus of the living presence of God in the midst of His people, and the rebuilding of the temple took place on the (lay of His resurrection. — R.C. Sproul

Macy: "In Truth," I said, "there are no rules other than you have to tell the truth."
Wes: "How do you win?" he asked
Macy: "That," I said, "is such a boy question. — Sarah Dessen

I have so many regrets. I don't believe anyone who says they don't. How can you live life making mistakes and never wish you could take one back? — Krista Ritchie

Love
Embracing Tao, you become embraced.
Supple, breathing gently, you become reborn.
Clearing your vision, you become clear.
Nurturing your beloved, you become impartial.
Opening your heart, you become accepted.
Accepting the World, you embrace Tao.
Bearing and nurturing,
Creating but not owning,
Giving without demanding,
Controlling without authority,
This is love. — Lao-Tzu

If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you. — Frederick Lenz

Catherine Keener really gets me. She and I have such a shorthand together. — Nicole Holofcener

Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of. — Markus Zusak