Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.

Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. You use them when you've got nothing else to try. If they work, they go in the Book. Otherwise you follow the Book, which is largely a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

It is like saying that for the cause of peace, God and the Devil will have a high-level meeting.

Why does a hearse horse snicker, hauling a lawyer away?

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

All kings is mostly rapscallions.

Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

Once, I read that a man be never stronger than when he truly realizes how weak he is.

Small things make base men proud.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

The world wants to be deceived.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out.

If clear thinking created sparks, we could safely store dynamite in James Watt's office.

The ultimate game show will be the one where somebody gets killed at the end.

Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have been, and never will be wrong.

Traveling through hyperspace isn't like dusting crops, boy.

When the blind lead the blind they will both fall over the cliff.

"I'd like to start a new religion. One that doesn't use a dead young man as its logo."

The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.

Burnt Sienna. That's the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

If you wish to be happy for one hour, get drunk. If you wish to be happy for three days, get married. If you wish to be happy for a month, kill your pig and eat it. If you wish to be happy forever, learn to fish.

Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to

The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.

A journey of a thousand miles starts under one's feet.

You don't move to Edina, you achieve Edina.

No man's ambition has a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

What we wish, that we readily believe.

Necessity has no law.

You can build a throne out of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for very long.

Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

We're all in this alone.

The Least Successful Equal Pay Advertisement In 1976 the European Economic Community pointed out to the Irish Government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sex equality legislation. The Dublin Government immediately advertised for an equal

Freedom is nothing else but the chance to do better.

Talkers are no good doers.

The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you can fool all of the people all of the time.

Those who do things in a noble spirit of self-sacrifice are to be avoided at all costs.

If you catch a man, throw him back.

Better tried by twelve than carried by six.

Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. I shall fall, Like a bright exhalation in the evening And no man see me more.