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Letter "T" » The Empire
«Luke : How did my father die? Obi-Wan : A young Jedi named Darth Vader, who was a pupil of mine until he turned to evil, helped the Empire hunt down and destroy the Jedi knights. He betrayed and murdered your father.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| Keywords:
betrayed, Darth Vader, evil empire, hunt, hunt down, Jedi Knight, Jedi Knights, knights, Luke, murdered, named, obi, pupil, The Empire, WAN
«I have something here for you. Your father wanted you to have this when you were old enough, but your uncle wouldn't allow it. He feared you might follow old Obi-Wan on some damn fool idealistic crusade like your father did. It's your father's lightsaber. This is the weapon of a Jedi Knight. Not as clumsy or as random as a blaster, but an elegant weapon for a more civilized age. For over a thousand generations, the Jedi Knights were the guardians of peace and justice in the Old Republic. Before the dark times, before the Empire.»
Author: Alec Guinness
| Keywords:
blaster, clumsy, crusade, crusades, crusading, dark ages, elegant, guardians, idealistic, Jedi Knight, Jedi Knights, knight, knights, obi, Old Enough, random, republic, The Crusades, The Empire, uncle, WAN
«General Kenobi, Years ago, you served my father in the Clone Wars; now he begs you to help him in his struggle against the Empire. I regret that I am unable to present my father's request to you in person; but my ship has fallen under attack and I'm afraid my mission to Alderaan has failed. I've placed information vital to the survival of the rebellion into the memory systems of this R2 unit. My father will know how to retrieve it. You must see this droid safely delivered to him on Alderaan. This is our most desperate hour. Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi; you're my only hope.»
Author: Carrie Fisher
(Actress, Writer)
| Keywords:
begs, clone, delivered, in person, obi, R2 unit, request, retrieve, Retrieving, safely, served, The Empire, the rebellion, unable to help, under attack, unit, units, WAN
«Eddie Fisher married to Elizabeth Taylor is like me trying to wash the Empire State Building with a bar of soap»
Author: Don Rickles
| Keywords:
Elizabeth, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth Taylor, Empire State, Empire State Building, fisher, fishers, M F K Fisher, soap, Taylor, The Empire, The Empire State
«How is the Empire?»
«Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.»
Author: Patrick Leigh Fermor
| About:
Cricket
| Keywords:
backward, blackball, cricket ball, equipoise, flat, ghostly, look backward, orb, orbs, shapes, The Empire, twin
«In the second century of the Christian era, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind»
Author: Edward Gibbon
(Historian)
| Keywords:
Christian Era, comprehended, Empire of, era, fairest, Rome, The Empire
«London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained»
«If (the) empire of superstition and hypocrisy should be overthrown, happy indeed will it be for the world; but if all religion and morality should be overthrown with it, what advantages will be gained? The doctrine of human equality is founded entire»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Hypocrisy,
Superstition
| Keywords:
Empire of, overthrown, The Empire
«Every one's voice was given equal weight in the empire ruled over by Rama.»
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