Alaska Quotes

This one's for Alaska Young!

Historically, Alaska is a place that has attracted those fed up with conventionality.

I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.

It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

And imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.

Because no one can catch the motherfucking fox.

To the lover of pure wildness Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

We should start by allowing drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge. It can provide billions of barrels of recoverable oil and trillions of cubic feet of recoverable natural gas.

There comes a time in the seeker's life when he discovers that he is at once the lover and the beloved.

Alaska itself is an unusual state.

One of Alaska's strengths is our pioneer role in environmentally sensitive development.

Alaska has great potential for new oil and gas development.

It was a struggle treating Claude Rains as my lover, but we were friendly. It was no great love affair.

This was one of the places people told me to go, it was one the big trips that you should see: Alaska.

You can't just make me different, and then leave. Because I was fine before, Alaska. I was just fine with me and last words and school friends, and you can't just make me different and then die.

If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant.

Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.

And then I screwed up and the Colonel screwed up and Takumi screwed up and she slipped through our fingers.

But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

I was not allowed a physical lover. Falling in love with Love was the best I could get.

I don't think I can tell any stories about how I lived in a van in Alaska. I grew up in the suburbs, I even had my own room. We weren't poor. Everything was very normal.

On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska.

She's just playing a trick on us. This is just an Alaska Young Prank Extraordinaire. It's Alaska being Alaska, funny and playful and not knowing when or how to put on the brakes.

I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.

They couldn't bear the idea of death being a big black nothing.

There is a part of her greater than the sum of her knowable parts. And that part has to go somewhere, because it cannot be destroyed.

You can't just make yourself matter and then die, Alaska, because now I am irretrievably different.

Love is the veil between lover and lover.

The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

Like most Alaska immigrants, my roots continue to petition for equal time.

When I told my wife UConn would win the Big East tournament, she wanted to know why a team from Alaska got into the Big East tournament.

That deep, can-still-taste-her-in-my-mouth sleep.

I didn't know what to say to her - I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

Alaska is just such an incredibly beautiful place. Of any place that I have ever been to, it speaks such high volumes about God and creation.

Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.

This year, I feel strong. I'm looking forward to having my best season in the last few years.

If a North Korean ballistic missile can reach Alaska, it can reach Vladivostok.

Where were they from originally? The Seabolts?" "I don't know, Idaho, Oklahoma, Iowa. One of those red-neck states with vowels on both ends." "You mean like Alaska?

What I miss most about living in Alaska is the fishing.

Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians.

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

I'm about to do my second Bikram yoga class in Anchorage, Alaska. It's the only way to stay warm. I've got to get into shape. I've been eating nothing but fish and chips.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that as soon as one part of your life starts looking up, another falls to pieces.