Alaska Quotes

180 quotes by 128 authors

A lover always thinks of his mistress first and himself second; with a husband it runs the other way. — Honore de Balzac
But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with which this world is strung. — Amelia Barr
It's not like Alaska isn't wilderness - it mostly is. But most Alaskans don't live in the wild. They live on the edge of the… — Tom Bodett
A physicist is just an atom's way of looking at itself. — Niels Bohr
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that… — Christian Nestell Bovee
For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia. — Sam Abell
There was really no friendship in modeling, though a certain amount of warmth comes from running into models you know on shoots, because you end… — Carol Alt
Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident… — Jeremy Clarkson
Of *course* he needs to renegotiate his salary - the guy buys more snow than Seward did when he bought Alaska from the Russians. — Dennis Miller
The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on… — William O. Douglas
We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska. — Amory Lovins
An environmental revolution is taking shape in the United States. This revolution has touched communities of color from New York to California and from Florida… — Robert D Bullard
I thought the line 'I am the daughter of the former governor of Alaska' was very funny. I think the word is 'sarcasm.' In my… — Andrea Fay Friedman
Folks, Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from Alaska. Mitt Romney talks like he's only seen Russia by watching 'Rocky IV.' — John F. Kerry
Alaska's chief attractions are: (a) its small and insignificant human population, thanks to the miserable climate; and (b) its large and magnificent wildlife population, thanks… — Edward Abbey
Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest unfrozen state. But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take up more space… — Edward Abbey
We have a great life here in Alaska, and we're never going back to America again! — Homer
I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska.… — Katey Walter
Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too… — Lisa Murkowski
Up here in Alaska we're sitting on billions of barrels of oil. We're sitting on hundreds of trillions of cubic feet of natural gas onshore… — Sarah Palin

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