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- The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get, I'll never be as good as a wall.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports.
- Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
- The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 10-30-03
- Dateline: Mesopotamia, 3500 B.C. That's when the multi-faceted sounds we call music got its humble beginnings. It seems clappers were sent out the the fields to scare evil spirits away. These clappers started getting into the beat of their duty and, bingo, you got drums. From there, horns, strings, reeds, the whole orchestral gestalt. So, born in staving off death, music continues to nourish us in a variety of forms as different as the colors of the spectrum.
- Jeffrey Vlaming, Northern Exposure, Heroes, 1992
- Cranes carry this heavy mystical baggage. They're icons of fidelity and happiness. The Vietnamese believe cranes cart our souls up to heaven on our wings.
- Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, The Bad Seed, 1992
- All Faith is false, all Faith is true:
Truth is the shattered mirror strown
In myriad bits; while each believes
His little bit the whole to own. - Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821 - 1890)
- They say that blood is thicker than water. Maybe that's why we battle our own with more energy and gusto than we would ever expend on strangers.
- David Assael, Northern Exposure, Family Feud, 1993
- No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.
- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
- Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
- Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968), December 11, 1964
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