Quotes About Alderaan

#1. If the Empire would destroy a world as important and prosperous as Alderaan ... no place in the galaxy was safe.

Claudia Gray

#2. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

George Lucas

#3. You are Lord Vader?" Organa asked. "Senator," Vader said, inclining his head slightly "I demand to know why you've come to Alderaan." "Senator, you are in no position to demand anything.

James Luceno

#4. As the old saying goes, I was simply looking for fan love, in Alderaan places.

George Takei

#5. To Alderaan we fly on course direct, And to this feast of death I'll not object. [Exit Darth Vader.

Ian Doescher

#6. A magnitude 15 earthquake would involve the release of almost 1032 joules of energy, which is roughly the gravitational binding energy of the Earth. To put it another way, the Death Star caused a magnitude 15 earthquake on Alderaan.

Randall Munroe

#7. Don't be so damned patronizing. Your performance so far has been a little less than dazzling."
"I didn't mean no harm," I said and kissed her. "That a new dress?"
"Ah! Changing the subject, you coward.

Dashiell Hammett

#8. The presence of many interacting influences, including the attainments of others, create further leeway in how one's performances and outcomes are cognitively appraised

Albert Bandura

#9. Witches, he thought. Always rhyming.

Nora Roberts

#10. Simply put, when there is no home birth in a society, or when home birth is driven completely underground, essential knowledge of women's capacities in birth is lost to the people of that society - to professional caregivers, as well as to the women of childbearing age themselves.

Ina May Gaskin

#11. Leave it to the Alderaanians to slap a cheery end on a nice little grisly children's morality tale.

Timothy Zahn

#12. I always wondered what he looked like; if the devil was the beautiful fallen angel that bible camp led me to believe as a child or if he was as ugly as the intentions that swelled deep inside of him.

Yolanda Olson

#13. The bucolic mind of East Barsetshire took warm delight in the eloquence of the eminent personage who represented them, but was wont to extract more actual enjoyment from the music of his periods than from the strength of his arguments.

Anthony Trollope

#14. Loneliness is difficult to confess; difficult too to categorise. Like depression, a state with which it often intersects, it can run deep in the fabric of a person, as much a part of one's being as laughing easily or having red hair.

Olivia Laing

#15. In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#16. Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

Michael Shermer

#17. Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

Fred Melamed

#19. Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you.

Elvis Costello

#20. Each moment that passes changes you ... You can't even own yourself. How can you ever hope to own anyone or anything else.

Bruce Lee

#21. The Bushes were certainly part of Texas in their mind, but they didn't have the kind of political flavor that you normally find in Texas politicians. It's just Texas is such a unique place to itself that politically, at least so far, they haven't found anybody to play nationally.

Gail Collins