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Episode IV -- The Empire Strikes Back.


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Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
FRANK OZ Star Wars: Episode V -- The Empire Strikes Back
MICHAEL SHEARD After witnessing the power of the force, Luke Skywalker exclaimed, "I don't believe it!" His Jedi me...
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK The Empire strikes back.
GEORGE LUCAS I'd like to watch them all in order now. My favorite is still The Empire Strikes Back for the battle...
ED GRAHAM It would be far less interesting, after 'The Empire Strikes Back,' to have an hour-long movi...
DAVID BENIOFF I saw 'The Empire Strikes Back' the week that it came out. My father was a huge 'Star Wa...
DONALD FAISON I definitely liked the Muppets. I definitely liked Yoda in 'Empire Strikes Back' and Chewbac...
SPIKE JONZE Bet you can't even name one romantic movie you like," she teased.
She felt smug when a few minu...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I usually dislike second books in series. The only second installment I ever loved was 'The Empi...
PIERCE BROWN It's time for the people of the Empire State to strike back.
ANDREW CUOMO There is a common misconception about Star Wars that we shoot everything on blue screen. We actually...
RICK MCCALLUM After 'The Empire Strikes Back,' I got to make big films that I didn't care about, '...
IRVIN KERSHNER The poorest service is repaid with thanks.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [McCallum feels most] hard-core ... want to be filmmakers. That's why we go so deeply into the proce...
STAR WARS We had our son back after a week on the IV.
JOY SEXTON The psychic space that Pac-Man grew to occupy in early 1980s popular culture was truly enormous, fil...
CHRIS GREEN I was trying to throw strikes. That's what happened, I didn't throw strikes. I have to come back to ...
PEDRO ASTACIO I kissed her cheek then, because I feared to do it and though commonsense may occasionally bind me, ...
MARK LAWRENCE They say that time is a great teacher but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
MARK LAWRENCE A Dark time comes.
My time.
If it offends you.
Stop Me.
MARK LAWRENCE Reply not to me with a fool-born jest.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We wrap up our violent and mysterious world in a pretense of understanding. We paper over the voids ...
MARK LAWRENCE [Thou] mad mustachio purple-hued maltworms!
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Thou art a very ragged Wart.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all t...
DONALD FAISON I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of:
a) The dark
b) Cold shivers up your s...
RICK RIORDAN Live fully and without fear
RICK RIORDAN APOLLO'S DAILY MOTIVATIONAL SPEECH

"You are gorgeous and people love you!
RICK RIORDAN 'Evil Dead' was such a big movie in my life. It's one of the few that I really remember ...
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TERESA OF ÁVILA I can call spirits from the vasty deep."

Why so can I, or so can any man. But will they c...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That’s the cost. That’s the price. Get ready, because when you crush the humanity out of humans,...
RICK YANCEY ABC is moving from the pay-per-episode model to the free episode model.
HENRY ELLENBOGEN But I did love you then, only I didn't realize it because it was so strong, and I still do love you,...
EMPIRE RECORDS That daffed the world aside, And bid it pass. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 1.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Don't be disheartened. I promise you the show will be back as soon as 'Beauty and the Geek' finishes...
DAVID JANOLLARI You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to...
RICH MOORE Elimination of the nuclear program is not possible, but with the right strikes you could decisively ...
ASHTON CARTER I mean, Rick James was just a man-made image, the image I created. Just trying to live Rick James al...
RICK JAMES The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I did an episode of The Profiler. I actually worked on the last episode of Murphy Brown.
ALICE BARRETT The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman nor an Empire.
VOLTAIRE The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.
VOLTAIRE The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.
VOLTAIRE Rick had two red trucks.
DOUG PETERSON The most important thing is that strikes don't last forever. The economy is normally quite resilient...
ALAN BLINDER Tell me this," I said. "My world. It's not like the one I read about in the oldest books. When they ...
MARK LAWRENCE This sickness doth infect The very life-blood of our enterprise. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We are ready to try our fortunes To the last man. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 2.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The American empire will not disappear... because America does not have an empire.
MICHAEL MANDELBAUM [T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strik...
ORSON SCOTT CARD Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. -King Henry IV. Part II. Act iv. Sc. 5.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault? Rick: Oh, he's just like any other man...
HUMPHREY BOGART We're quite pleased to have Rick.
MARK AITKEN Rick Perry just doesn't get it,
CHRIS BELL And far more dangerous than greed or lust or envy or any of those things—or anything—was love.
RICK YANCEY Episode III.
HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN WHEN BOREDOM STRIKES HUNGER STRIKES TOO!
MIRTEL CARBIèRE He who strikes first, strikes twice.
MEXICAN PROVERB Annina: Monsieur Rick, what kind of a man is Captain Renault?
Rick: Oh, he's just like any othe...
HUMPHREY BOGART Every Sunday night I have a Cinderella moment when the clock strikes 12 and I have to go back to sla...
TANYA HUBRACK Language is always the companion of Empire and Empire . . . is one Monarch and one Sword.
CARLOS FUENTES We take the perspective that the episode has already happened to him and he's sitting back reflectin...
GREG GARCIA The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more....
WILLIAM BLAKE He threw a lot of strikes. He threw well, I thought. I'm sure he'll bounce back and be fine.
BOB MCCREARY Cinnamonrolls are good for harpies.' She [Ella] said.
RICK RIORDAN Back in the days of the Roman Empire, when soldiers returned home from battle, the women laid palms ...
BARBARA GRIFFIN How is the Empire?
KING GEORGE V The Empire must fall.
CHUCK WENDIG I wrote Steve Carell's last episode. I think it was a really good episode, but there's alway...
GREG DANIELS My favorite episode of Stargate? All of them! My favorite episode of Parker Lewis? All of them!
CORIN NEMEC I may justly say, with the hook-nosed fellow of Rome, “I came, saw, and overcame.” -King Henry ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The mason who strikes often is better than the one who strikes too hard
IRISH SAYINGS If this thing passes it helps Rick Perry.
GARY KEITH When it was [Larry] Bird's turn [to sign souvenir Team USA basketballs], he said to [Brian] McIntyre...
JACK MCCALLUM No, the Empire needed to be fought. It had to be resisted.
GREG RUCKA The Empire needed no new weapons. It built the greatest weapon in the history of the galaxy. Twic...
CHUCK WENDIG Naughty business, this Empire.
CHUCK WENDIG Has there ever been a country that, once colonized, avoided civil war?
ROMA TEARNE Get an IV started on yourself.
DR. DAVID TUCKER The key to this episode is restraint.
RICHARD LEWIS Star Wars, Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
GEORGE LUCAS Survivor: Guatemala: The Mayan Empire
JEFF PROBST I try not to think. It interferes with being nuts -Leo Valdez
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN He looked at me and smiled reassuringly and said, "Everything is going to be okay," because that's w...
RICK YANCEY Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma."
Bacchus ...
RICK RIORDAN If I'm going to burn, it might as well be bright.
RICK RIORDAN Maybe I should have resented him, but I didn't. After losing my mother, I didn't have patience for g...
RICK RIORDAN He has a beautiful stroke. Pure as Rick Barry.
BILL BAKAMUS I listen to some Kevin Gates, Rick Ross, Fabolous.
MARSHAWN LYNCH Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
SUDIE BACK She came to live with me in Albany. She really enjoyed that, she got to see some of the grandchildre...
FLORENCE BACK Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you: you must acquire it.
SUDIE BACK She loved having a large family. She has 56 grandchildren, 84 great-grandchildren, and 28 great-grea...
FLORENCE BACK She was an excellent cook.
FLORENCE BACK It was hard work. We only went to school when it rained. If it wasn't raining, we were in the fields...
FLORENCE BACK They just thought they would make a good match.
FLORENCE BACK After all of us kids were grown and moved away, Mom and Daddy moved back to where they grew up. It w...
FLORENCE BACK

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RICK RIORDAN That's because we keep weapons in the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time m...
RICK RIORDAN Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy ...
RICK RIORDAN Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ...
RICK RIORDAN You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
RICK RIORDAN Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu...
RICK RIORDAN They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
RICK RIORDAN I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
RICK RIORDAN This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..."
"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
RICK RIORDAN Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
RICK RIORDAN Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
RICK RIORDAN There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
RICK RIORDAN Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
RICK RIORDAN Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
RICK RIORDAN Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
RICK RIORDAN Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
RICK RIORDAN Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
RICK RIORDAN He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
RICK RIORDAN Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
RICK RIORDAN Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
RICK RIORDAN If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
RICK RIORDAN