Top 88 Mayhew Quotes
#1. I think the things I wanted answered have been answered by people in the know that we can't talk about, so I'm perfectly happy with how Chewie came to be where he is and what is going on in Episode III.
Peter Mayhew
#2. Dolly was the exclamation point in my life. She made me feel things: adoration, anger, frustration. She was always in love and it made her glow.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#4. We then journeyed on to London Street, down which the tidal ditch continues its course.
Henry Mayhew
#5. There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
Henry Mayhew
#6. The costermongers' boys will, I am informed, cheat their employers, but they do not steal from them.
Henry Mayhew
#7. I really enjoyed the last scene at the Ewok celebration after the battle.
Peter Mayhew
#8. To lead anonymously is to forfeit the limelight in exchange for a deep sense of joy that God is at work in the midst of your influence. While you might plant a seed, God makes it grow and bear much fruit.
Ralph Mayhew
#9. Hold fast," he called. "Tell me your names, and your stations."
"I am the Lady Door," said Door. "I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch."
"I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard."
"Richard Mayhew," said Richard. "Wet.
Neil Gaiman
#10. Richard Marquand, on Jedi, was very much an actor's director.
Peter Mayhew
#11. For which reason I would exhort you to pay all due Regard to the government over us; to the KING and all in authority; and to lead a quiet and peaceable life.
Jonathan Mayhew
#13. The world's a stage and I'm on it. Better make a good impression out there!
Shannon Mayhew
#14. I want to mother the world, I thought. I have so much love.
Then - I have no business being a mother. I am a selfish woman.
Then - I can do this. Millions of women have been mothers.
Then - I feel very alone. I do not know what I'm capable of.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#15. I wanted, then, to become what I most admired, what now seemed most real to me. I wanted to be that exalted, complicated presence in someone's life, the familiar body, the source of another's existence. But I knew what I wanted was not always what I needed.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#16. According to this way of arguing, there will be no true principles in the world; for there are none but what may be wrested and perverted to serve bad purposes, either through the weakness or wickedness of men.
Jonathan Mayhew
#17. I now add, farther, that the apostle's argument is so far from proving it to be the duty of people to obey, and submit to, such rulers as act in contradiction to the public good, and so to the design of their office, that it proves the direct contrary.
Jonathan Mayhew
#18. It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.
Jonathan Mayhew
#19. Common tyrants, and public oppressors, are not intitled to obedience from their subjects, by virtue of any thing here laid down by the inspired apostle.
Jonathan Mayhew
#21. I think by that time I knew where Chewie was going, and he left me to do what was called for, because the character had been well established. You know, it was like putting on a second skin by that time.
Peter Mayhew
#22. I can go out in public without being recognized. If I want to be recognized in public, it will happen.
Peter Mayhew
#23. With my mask, I controlled all of the mouth movements with my own mouth.
Peter Mayhew
#24. It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us.
Jonathan Mayhew
#25. I pictured the mother whale, exhausted from labor, pushing her calf up to the skin of the water. The miracle of breath in the face of predation, life in the wake of whaling ships.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#26. They asked if I was interested in a role as a large alien in a movie.
Peter Mayhew
#27. I think that Star Wars revolutionized not only sci-fi movies, but also the entire industry in the way that things are done.
Peter Mayhew
#28. After a while, the character sort of took over.
Peter Mayhew
#29. People are not usually deprived of their liberties all at once, but gradually, by one encroachment after another, as it is found they are disposed to bear them.
Jonathan Mayhew
#31. What is the use of this fuss about morality when the issue only involves a horse? The first and most difficult teaching of civilisation concerns man's behaviour to his inferiors. Make humanity gentle or reasonable toward animals, and strife or injustice between human beings would speedily terminate.
Edward Mayhew
#32. Never having played Chess before, it was most interesting to be playing the game with no pieces in front of me. But I still knew how to stroke my hair when I won.
Peter Mayhew
#33. Sometimes you didn't know what you were after, I thought. Maybe there was a speck on the horizon and you followed it, hoping for the best.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#34. Tell me, Mrs. Mayhew, have you ever dreamed of a better world?" "Who hasn't?" "Anyone who profits by keeping the world as it is.
Erika Johansen
#35. Till people find themselves greatly abused and oppressed by their governors, they are not apt to complain; and whenever they do, in fact, find themselves thus abused and oppressed, they must be stupid not to complain.
Jonathan Mayhew
#36. Would there be water shortages? Yes. More starving babies? Unfortunately. Would our quality of life soon be diminished by global warming? Probably. But who, I wondered, but the strongest among us could hold those ideas in their heads and find happiness? Get out of bed in the morning?
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#37. There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.
Jonathan Mayhew
#38. The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it.
Henry Mayhew
#39. But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.
Jonathan Mayhew
#41. Ballet-girls have a bad reputation, which is in most cases well deserved.
Henry Mayhew
#42. A fact must be assimilated with, or discriminated fromm, some other fact or facts, in order to be raised to the dignity of a truth, and made to convey the least knowledge to the mind.
Henry Mayhew
#43. It was a character-building week, a week that thinned my hair, put circles underneath my eyes.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#44. I was conducted in the evening to a tavern where several of the weavers who advocate the principles of the People's Charter were in the habit of assembling.
Henry Mayhew
#45. It's like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult relationship and still get invited to threesomes? - Dexter Mayhew
David Nicholls
#46. To say that subjects in general are not proper judges (of the law) when their governors oppress them and play the tyrant, and when they defend their rights ... is as great a treason as ever a man uttered.
Jonathan Mayhew
#47. On the morning of what should have been Amelia Ashley's birthday, the river valley that had once housed High Bridge changed for Joshua Mayhew. For the first time in many years, it seemed beautiful to him. For the first time in many years, it was beautiful.
Tara Hudson
#48. It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.
Jonathan Mayhew
#49. There were no promises, no obligations between living things, she thought. Not even humans. Just raw need hidden by a game of make-believe.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#50. When you've got eight or nine or ten cables running around with someone trying to operate them, it's too much.
Peter Mayhew
#51. Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.
Henry Mayhew
#52. It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed with fine old port.
Henry Mayhew
#53. I remember thinking that moms were not allowed to be sad, that surely women grew out of sadness by the time they had children.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#54. There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness.
Jonathan Mayhew
#55. The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis.
Henry Mayhew
#56. After my own for instance, my favourite is Princess Leia.
Peter Mayhew
#57. Let us prize our freedom; but not use our liberty for a cloak of maliciousness.
Jonathan Mayhew
#58. I think the main thing was that the character couldn't speak in regular language, so he had to be mimed.
Peter Mayhew
#59. A whole new generation is looking at the videos, and going to the video shop and buying the re-release of the complete trilogy, which you can buy at a reasonable price.
Peter Mayhew
#60. Maybe the world had been bad to its great and unusual women. Maybe there wasn't a worthy place for the female hero to live out her golden years, to be celebrated as the men had been celebrated, to take from that celebration what she needed to survive.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#61. When you consider that you're a character that doesn't speak, but you've still got to react to the other actors, you've got to make a noise of some kind.
Peter Mayhew
#64. I don't want him to know that people like Louis's mom exist, that people fall into land mines of pain and can't crawl back out.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#65. Imagine: you could say nothing, do nothing, eat nothing, touch nothing, love nothing without the other knowing.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#67. The apostle enters upon his subject thus - Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers; for there is no power but of God: the powers that be, are ordained of God.
Jonathan Mayhew
#68. Mint-street and Kent-street--those old plague-spots that disgrace and disfigure the fair face of the Borough of Southwark--teem with blackguardism and vice; but here, too, you find that the birds who here flock are strictly of a feather. Cow-cross,
Henry Mayhew
#69. Worrying about parents is a waste of time. It's your life. Let's have a martini.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#70. The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety and utility.
Jonathan Mayhew
#71. Sometimes it helps to lie. You tell yourself a story, even if you don't know the ending.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#72. George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
Peter Mayhew
#73. Not to discontinue our allegiance, in this case, would be to join with the sovereign in promoting the slavery and misery of that society, the welfare of which, we ourselves, as well as our sovereign, are indispensably obliged to secure and promote, as far as in us lies.
Jonathan Mayhew
#74. With Star Wars fans, there's so much enthusiasm, and it's a completely different generation now.
Peter Mayhew
#75. Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.
Henry Mayhew
#76. Putting God in the pledge and on money - that's like a sign in the sky saying 'air.'
Anna Jean Mayhew
#78. The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.
Henry Mayhew
#79. But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit.
Peter Mayhew
#80. It was amazing that during rehearsals, without any of the costume on, the character was there complete. It just happened. Half the time, I didn't know I was doing it.
Peter Mayhew
#81. Doing the Muppet Show you forget about conventional filming.
Peter Mayhew
#82. George Lucas puts those types of characters in for the kids. Same with Jar Jar.
Peter Mayhew
#83. But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
Henry Mayhew
#84. In No. 1 of this street the cholera first appeared seventeen years ago, and spread up it with fearful virulence; but this year it appeared at the opposite end, and ran down it with like severity.
Henry Mayhew
#85. Nothing has topped the way men shake her hand and look her in the eye, what it's like to call a man chickenshit to his face and get away with it, to mean it, to feel free and dominant and in control of your life.
Megan Mayhew Bergman
#86. All civil rulers, as such, are the ordinance and ministers of God; and they are all, by the nature of their office, and in their respective spheres and stations, bound to consult the public welfare.
Jonathan Mayhew
#87. Mrs. Scott, do you mind my asking why the alarm wasn't on?" This was from Mayhew. He had taken out a notebook and pen. His shoulders were hunched, as if someone had asked him to mimic a character from a Raymond Chandler novel.
Karin Slaughter
#88. We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.
Henry Mayhew
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