Alaska By James A Michener Quotes

#1. Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.

Edith Wharton

#2. The city of Los Angeles is now some twenty-four hundred miles south of central Alaska, and since it is moving slowly northward as the San Andreas fault slides irresistibly along, the city is destined eventually to become part of Alaska. If

James A. Michener

#3. Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

Jim Sullivan

#4. A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling that I didn't fully belong, that my parents didn't belong.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#5. For nature does things in good order:
And birds and butterflies recognize
No man-made border

Ruskin Bond

#6. I have a constitutional weakness in which I am very easily distracted by flashing lights. If there is a TV on in the room, I can't have a conversation with you. I won't eat, I won't sleep, I'll just meld with my couch.

Rachel Maddow

#7. Alaska did not produce supermen, but in its formative periods it was served by men of character and determination, and it is a fortunate land which knows such public servants.

James A. Michener

#8. I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.

LaTanya Richardson