Top 77 Quotes About Allston
#2. Oh, wonderful. I killed his father. He hates me. He knows how to make bombs. Come on, Wedge, how does this story end?
Aaron Allston
#3. Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
Aaron Allston
#4. The most intangible, and therefore the worst, kind of a lie is a half truth. This is the peculiar device of a conscientious detractor.
Washington Allston
#5. There is no way to step off the tread mill. It is all treadmill.
Wallace Stegner
#6. The painter who is content with the praise of the world for what does not satisfy himself, is not an artist, but an artisan; for though his reward be only praise, his pay is that of a mechanic.
Washington Allston
#9. With politics, nothing runs right ... but without politics, nothing runs.
Diss Ti'wyn
Aaron Allston
#10. Mission One is the meeting with Zsinj. Face commands and has chosen Dia and Kell to accompany him. This is all intelligence gathering, very delicate, which is why the crew is full of deadly killers.
Aaron Allston
#11. The most common disguise of Envy is in praise of what is subordinate.
Washington Allston
#12. This would not be a problem if I were driving a snowplow.
Aaron Allston
#13. The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.
Aaron Allston
#14. Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.
Washington Allston
#15. Ennui and lethargy are waging a war inside me.
Aaron Allston
#17. Sithspit! What's that?'
'That's the sun, Wedge. It's after dawn.'
'Well, it offends me. Turn it off.'
'It's a hundred thirty, hundred forty million klicks from here.'
'Go up in your X-wing and shoot it down for me.
Aaron Allston
#19. When are they going to stop calling me General?"
"When are they going to stop calling me Princess?"
Han & Leia
Aaron Allston
#20. I have to say, this sounds like the worst idea in a thousand generations of bad ideas."
"You haven't heard all our ideas."
Luke & Bhindi Drayson
Aaron Allston
#21. Make no man your idol, for the best man must have faults; and his faults will insensibly become yours, in addition to your own.
Washington Allston
#22. I really can't complain about actresses who get paid to be dumb. Most of us can't get paid to be smart.
Aaron Allston
#23. I don't have to blow up everything I see ... I just like to.
Aaron Allston
#24. At which time the repulsor puts out its final effort and slows you down so you crash quite slowly into the surface."
"Crash."
"Quite slowly."
Face & Luke
Aaron Allston
#25. Where did you learn that smile? Have you been practicing in front of a holo of Han Solo?
Mara to Luke
Aaron Allston
#26. Luke, I don't want to discourage your curiosity, but I have to remind you, if something goes wrong, this is an exceptionally embarassing way to die.
Mara
Aaron Allston
#27. There are times when the end justifies the means. But when you build an argument based on a whole series of such times, you may find that you've constructed an entire philosophy of evil.
Luke Skywalker
Aaron Allston
#28. He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.
Washington Allston
#29. Definition of 'Free': You pay for it whether or not you elect to receive it.
Aaron Allston
#32. The difference between tragedy and comedy: Tragedy is something awful happening to somebody else, while comedy is something awful happening to somebody else.
Aaron Allston
#33. If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!
Washington Allston
#34. No, General. I'm not your subordinate. And what I'm coming dangerously close to is violence.
-General Wedge Antilles
Aaron Allston
#35. And these have been successfully tested."
"Well, tested, sure. They've been tested. Each time they're tested, we assemble what data we can, and the next generation of pods comes back just a bit more intact."
Face & Luke
Aaron Allston
#37. Obviously a fake Kyp. You distract him. I'll shoot him under the table.
Han (to Leia)
Aaron Allston
#38. The analysis of the thing is not the thing itself.
Aaron Allston
#39. That was interesting."
"He deliberately countermanded one of my orders."
"He was furtive."
"Sneaky, even."
"We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet."
Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
Aaron Allston
#40. Titian, Tintoretto, and Paul Veronese absolutely enchanted me, for they took away all sense of subject ... It was the poetry of color which I felt, procreative in its nature, giving birth to a thousand things which the eye cannot see, and distinct from their cause.
Washington Allston
#41. I was years older than you when I became an ambassador for the first time. Remember that, Tycho? How did we get through that assignment, anyway?"
"Pretty much, we opened fire on everyone who disagreed with us."
Wedge nodded and turned to his daughter. "When all else fails, just do that.
Aaron Allston
#42. Begging your pardon, sir, but you're crazy enough to be a Wraith."
"Until you've crewed with me for a few years, kid, you have no idea what 'crazy' means.
Aaron Allston
#43. An original mind is rarely understood, until it has been reflected from some half-dozen congenial with it, so averse are men to admitting the true in an unusual form; whilst any novelty, however fantastic, however false, is greedily swallowed.
Washington Allston
#44. There will be pages. Lots and lots of pages. Most of the pages will have letters on them, and a vast majority of these letters will be in the Roman alphabet.
Aaron Allston
#46. Tycho, we're about to achieve a tremendous victory we don't want."
"We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to."
"Thanks."
Wedge & Tycho
Aaron Allston
#47. Selfishness in art, as in other things, is sensibility kept at home.
Washington Allston
#48. Reputation is but a synonym of popularity: dependent on suffrage, to be increased or diminished at the will of the voters.
Washington Allston
#49. Desert being the essential condition of praise, there can be no reality in the one without the other.
Washington Allston
#50. The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius.
Washington Allston
#51. If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?
Aaron Allston
#52. All effort at originality must end either in the quaint or the monstrous. For no man knows himself as an original; he can only believe it on the report of others.
Washington Allston
#53. The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
Aaron Allston
#54. The greatest of all fools is the proud fool
who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.
Washington Allston
#55. Sort of like what Joruus C'baoth did for Thrawn."
"I'm not talking about ancient history, I'm talking about now."
Luke & Jaina
Aaron Allston
#56. Fame has no necessary conjunction with praise; it may exist without the breath of a word: it is a recognition of excellence which must be felt, but need not be spoken. Even the envious must feel it,
feel it, and hate in silence.
Washington Allston
#57. Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
Aaron Allston
#58. If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
Washington Allston
#60. Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
Washington Allston
#61. Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
Aaron Allston
#62. Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
Aaron Allston
#63. You can't look dignified when you're having fun.
Aaron Allston
#64. Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to."
"No, this will be Wraith Squadron's mission."
"We don't mind running. Even when we don't have to.
Aaron Allston
#65. You can't reduce sapient lives to numbers and exchange them like credits.
Aaron Allston
#66. I don't know. Your the Jedi Master, you figure it out.
Aaron Allston
#67. I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
Aaron Allston
#68. The chief difference between horror fans and science fiction fans lies in why they won't walk backwards. A horror fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll be knifed by a madman. A science fiction fan won't walk backwards because he knows he'll step on the cat.
Aaron Allston
#69. Where can I get some tat? I'd like to trade it in.
Aaron Allston
#70. Nothing is rarer than a solitary lie; for lies breed like Surinam toads; you cannot tell one but out it comes with a hundred young ones on its back.
Washington Allston
#71. Humility is also a healing virtue; it will cicatrize a thousand wounds, which pride would keep forever open.
Washington Allston
#72. Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving ... '
Alema Rar
Aaron Allston
#73. I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.
Washington Allston
#74. I hope you're rushing to tell me that the chef has acquired Jacen Solo's entrails and is braising them for dinner."
"Not quite, Admiral."
"Life is full of disappointments.
Aaron Allston
#75. ... The Antilles and Horn clans sat at a folding table between two StealthXs, playing what looked like a cutthroat game of sabacc.
Aaron Allston
#76. And unlike the rest of you, he hasn't yet time to ruin his career or his mind."
"Then he won't do. Send him home. Get us another lunatic."
"Excuse me!" [hopping up to stand in his seat] "Elassar Targon, master of the universe, reporting for duty!"
"I withdraw my objection.
Aaron Allston
#77. To go elsewhere would mean starting all over. Learning as a child does. I have been a child already. I will not yield one bit, one speck of the power and influence I have now.
Aaron Allston
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