235 Quotes by Amy Sedaris

I stayed in New York City for the first time, I’d always wanted to do that.

Begin your story with a sentence that will immediately grab hold of your listener’s ears like a surly nun in a Catholic school.

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it’s this new arts channel, it’s really great.

A lot of crafters, they’re shut-ins.

If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it’s a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.

I like to entertain in all aspects. When you’re with somebody and you’re out, you want to be entertained.

I love old cookbooks. I just got such a kick out of them, how the color would be way off or fake looking. The cook books now look so much like magazines, you’ll never make food that looks like that. I’d rather see it the ugly way than they way they do it now.

Imagination! My problem is that I have so many ideas, I never have enough time to use them all. Just the other day I thought up eleven things I could do with a flowerpot. Eleven! Three of those things didn’t even involve plants.

If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that’s not necessarily psychic. But I always feel like there’s something around me protecting me.