Tarkin's Quotes

#1. The Carrion Spike may already be in motion," Tarkin said, squaring his shoulders. As if in echo of Tarkin's posture of readiness, Vader planted his fists on his hips. "Then we have no time to spare.

James Luceno

#2. Life is a fairy tale. Live it with wonder and amazement.

Welwyn Wilton Katz

#3. I want to go on living after my death!

Anne Frank

#4. Reverend Hale is so interesting because at first he's like, "Oh, she's got the mark." Then by the end he's like, "You're all crazy."

Winona Ryder

#5. You don't mind that the war will go on and on?"
"Palpatine could have prevented it. Now it's up to people like you to end it."
Tarkin nodded. "And so we shall.

James Luceno

#6. And why does every deliberately cruel person seem to consider themselves the perfect example of necessary bluntness? As if you're supposed to thank them for mowing over your heart with their special brand of honesty.

Mia Sheridan

#7. One can train dolphins to jump synchronously because they do so in the wild, and one can teach horses to run together at the same pace because wild horses do the same.

Frans De Waal

#8. I don't think I'm even close to fulfilling my potential. And I think also that, unlike a pianist or a flutist, an actor has an instrument that is constantly changing.

Kerry Washington

#9. All writing is a sin against speechlessness,' Beckett had said. He would have stopped, I thought, if he could.

Tim Parks

#10. My instructions to Lord Vader and Moff Tarkin were to make an example of the shipjackers, not to allow the shipjackers to make a laughingstock of the Empire's intelligence chiefs.

James Luceno

#11. I don't like going out that much. I'm kind of an old lady. After it's 11, I'm like, 'Don't these kids ever get tired?' When I'm out, I think about my couch. Like, 'It would be awesome to be on it right now. I bet there's an episode of Dance Moms on.

Jennifer Lawrence

#12. Pettiness seems to go hand in hand with vindictiveness. The smaller the person, the larger the need for revenge. This may account for the fact that some consensual crimes have stiffer penalties than do most crimes with innocent victims.

Peter McWilliams

#13. Moff Tarkin sends his regards.

James Luceno

#14. [...] I have found that there is a rock that supports my faith. But it's a borrowed rock, kind of a sedimentary rock composed in good measure of the faith of others.

Robert W. Griggs

#15. If we aren't willing to do whatever is required," he said finally, "then we risk losing what we have been mandated to protect.

James Luceno

#16. I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.

Charlton Heston

#17. Tarkin thought of himself as the product of a military upbringing, in which discipline, respect, and obedience were held in the highest regard.

John Jackson Miller

#18. what you have to do, and I'm so fucking proud of you. Not many people who make that choice. And Emir, it's the right one.

Mika Tarkin

#19. TARKIN: The wench hath lied! Deceiving,
cut-throat girl,
Most cunning princess born of
Hell's own heart!

Ian Doescher

#20. Tarkin smiled. Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.

James Luceno

#21. For once the battle station is fully operational, you will wield the ultimate power in the galaxy." Tarkin

John Jackson Miller

#22. I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

Will Smith

#23. Teller stared up at him. "What transforms a man into a monster, Tarkin?"
"Monster? That's a point of view, is it not? I will say this much: This place, this plateau is what made me.

James Luceno

#24. Vader might very well be Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, whom Tarkin had fought beside during the Clone Wars, and for whom he had developed a grudging appreciation.

James Luceno

#25. I've no interest on initiating a fashion trend on Coruscant or anywhere else. I simply want a uniform that fits - Tarkin

James Luceno

#26. They could think they'd taken the parts of her that mattered most. That they'd broken her. But there was a part of Leia that the Emperor, Vader, Tarkin, any of them could never touch. Her heart was a star that would never burn out. And she would outshine them all.

Alexandra Bracken

#27. I'm all about 'Halo 2'.

Akiva Schaffer

#28. His strategy of flying boldly into the face of adversity was studied and taught, and during the Clone Wars would come to be known as the Tarkin Rush,

James Luceno

#29. Tarkin had long nursed suspicions about who Vader was beneath the black face mask and helmet, as well as how he had come to be, but he knew better than to give open voice to his thoughts.

James Luceno

#30. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government ...

Thomas Jefferson

#31. One last thing, Vice Admiral," Vader said as Rancit was being escorted aft down the walkway. "Moff Tarkin sends his regards.

James Luceno

#32. You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

Nick Earls