Alas Quotes - Page 2

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 long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people.

I did find out about the koalas and how eucalyptus makes them high and why they sleep all day. They're little druggies.

Damn it, how will I ever get out of this labyrinth?

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

Discount my partiality, but my report is that so far The Winds of War is looking good.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

I consider myself a product of Alaska. The love and the debt that I feel to my home state, you always want your hometown to be the proudest of you.

A priest is sent to Alaska. A bishop goes up to visit one year later. The bishop asks, How do you like it up here? The priest says, If it wasn't for my Rosary, and 2 martinis a day, I'd be lost. Bishop, would you like a martini? Yes. Rosary, get the bishop a martini!

You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Americans need bullshit the way koala bears need eucalyptus leaves. They've become totally addicted to it. They get so much of it back home that they can't survive without it.

The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?

We all use the future to escape the present.

It's not life or death, the labyrinth. Suffering. Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

I've always been an animal lover. I've grown up with dogs my whole life.

A changing environment will affect Alaska more than any other state, because of our location. I'm not one though who would attribute it to being man-made.

It's like a koala pooped a rainbow on my head and I can taste the colors.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about koalas. Nothing so stupid has any right to exist on the planet. On the other hand, they are rather cute, and in grave danger of extinction due to their specialised needs.

I want to go to Australia and take the same goofy picture of me holding a koala that everyone else takes.

No, we're not looking at how to control criminals... we're talking about banning the AK-47 and semi-automatic guns.