Sports Night (TV Series)

The Quality of Mercy at 29K (1998)

Felicity Huffman: Dana Whitaker

Quotes 

• Dana Whitaker : The lights go down, and this woman with a voice like thunder - this woman, she summons all the animals of the jungle to appear and honor the birth of the new lion king. She *summons* the animals with her voice, and do you know - do you know what happens next?

  Dan Rydell : The animals appear?

  Dana Whitaker : The animals *appear*!

• [Re: Mount Everest] 

  Jeremy Goodwin : 29,000 feet. Do you know how tall that is?

  Will : It's 29,000 feet.

  Jeremy Goodwin : Yes.

  Chris : It's actually 29,029 feet.

  Dana Whitaker : But it's those last ten yards that'll kill ya.

  Jeremy Goodwin : It's huge. It's 8,848 meters.

  Natalie Hurley : It sounds more impressive at 29,000 feet.

  Jeremy Goodwin : Alright, I'm going to stick with 29,000 feet. How can I best express this? How many of what kind of thing would we have to line up end to end?

  Elliot : Twenty-nine thousand rulers.