Alaskans Own Quotes & Sayings

The idea should come first, the startup should come second. — Sam Altman

Every morning, when Alaskans wake up, one of the first things they do, is look outside to see if there are any Russians hanging around. And if there are, you gotta go up to them and ask, 'What are you doing here?' and if they can't give you a good reason, it's our responsibility to say, you know, 'Shoo! Get back over there!' — Tina Fey

If life is a stage and you are your own agent, then don't hesitate to play the character you wish to play. — Richelle E. Goodrich

When I run, I always pretend I am running toward Nikki, and it makes me feel like I am decreasing the amount of time I have to wait until I see her again. — Matthew Quick

I have never once asked Alaskans to like how I got this job. — Lisa Murkowski

A kind of sensual darkness began to absorb me and the words began to spill out beyond my control. — Elliot Mabeuse

By design McCandless came into the country with insufficient provisions, and he lacked certain pieces of equipment deemed essential by many Alaskans: a large-caliber rifle, map and compass, an ax. This has been regarded as evidence not just of stupidity but of the even greater sin of arrogance. — Jon Krakauer

We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act. Long ago we outgrew the need to be blowhards about our masculinity; we leave that to the Alaskans and Texans, who have more time for it. — Edward Hoagland

And Alaska - we're set up, unlike other states in the union, where it's collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs. It's to maximize benefits for Alaskans, not an individual company, not some multinational somewhere, but for Alaskans. — Sarah Palin

Now is the time for all Alaskans to come together and reach out with our core message of taking power from the federal government and bringing it back home to the people. — Joe Miller

Thus to act under the guidance coming from above, this is one side of the sadhana, the dynamic side. The other one is the discrimination between the Purusha and the Prakriti. The Purusha will calmly observe, give sanction, choose, but will realise that all this does not belong to him - all these are outside him. This is the static side of the sadhana. These two aspects constitute the basis of Yoga. — Sri Aurobindo

Planning is the essence of good management and when it comes to health care we must allow states to plan for future needs. We need to cement this federal commitment to Alaskans so the state has the assurance that money vital for providing Medicaid health care will not just dry up and disappear. — Lisa Murkowski

If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower. — Groucho Marx

Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love. — Lloyd D. Newell

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to. — Dodie Smith

If Trescothick had tried to get me off the field when batting well, I'd have hit him with my bat. — Geoffrey Boycott

Alaskans are basically 'leave me alone' type people who respect and embrace different strokes. — Bill O'Reilly

In my whole career, I've never seen this type of race that you had to wait for the last day. There's so many teams that are involved. You've got to smile because we're in it. — David Wells

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 wild in towns with schools and cable TV and stores and dentists and roller rinks sometimes. It's just like anyplace else, only with mountains and moose. — Tom Bodett

Our thoughts are not roadblocks to our meditation, they are the divine expression of the universe and the building blocks of infinite possibilities available to us in every moment. — Davidji

existence like every middle-school student who'd ever been forced to come out of their bedroom. — Gwendolyn Knapp

It was in a way a comforting idea; if there was all the time in the world, then the happenings of a given moment became less important. — Diana Gabaldon

When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties. — Dana Stabenow