The information we consume matters just as much as the food we put in our body. It affects our thinking, our behavior, how we understand our place in the world. And how we understand others. —Evan Williams
Chest Joking
This is the spot where we can share those eye-catching, thought-provoking slogans we find on T-shirts, pins, and apparel.
If winter is slumber and spring is birth, and summer is life, then autumn rounds out to be reflection. It’s a time of year when the leaves are down and the harvest is in and the perennials are gone. Mother Earth just closed up the drapes on another year and it’s time to reflect on what’s come before. —Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
I’m not judging people, I’m judging their actions. It’s the same type of distinction that I try to apply to myself, to judge, but not be judgmental.
—Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Crime and Punishment, 1992
Quote of the Day
Joel: Ed, are you hallucinating? Ed: Oh, yeah, but not right now. —Sy Rosen and Christian Williams, Northern Exposure, On Your Own, 1992
This Just In
Quote of the Day
Joel: That’s the movies, Ed. Try reality. Ed: No thanks. —Ellen Herman, Northern Exposure, Only You, 1991
Blast From the Past — 1937
A dispute between the American Federation of Labor teamsters and the longshoremen of the Congress of Industrial Organizations in San Francisco had a very unexpected side-effect.
Women have more to offer this world than just a fallopian tube. Nothing is going to change until you quit looking at us as just sperm receptacles. —Barbara Hall, Northern Exposure, Baby Blues, 1994
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor.
—Laurence J. Peter
