Ewan Mcgregor Star Wars Quotes & Sayings

Smart development builds on a region's own skills, resources and local businesses. Dumb growth invites a big corporation in, surrenders control and profits to a distant headquarters, undercuts local manufacturers, and risks layoffs without warning. — Donella Meadows

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies. — Michael Clarke Duncan

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem. — Jenny Eclair

I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now that would be interesting. — Ewan McGregor

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way. — Leonardo DiCaprio

It has been sometimes argued that there is no truer criterion of the vitality of any given art-period than the power of the master-spirits of that time in grotesque; and certainly in the instance of Gothic art there is no disputing the proposition. — Thomas Hardy

Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than anything I might be able to come up with on a single given day. — Teju Cole

He's quite extraordinary with his moves and spins. I think he was a baton girl in a past life [on his co-star Hayden Christensen]. — Ewan McGregor

The men who have gotten women pregnant need to be accountable if we are. If we are going to jail, the men are coming too. Religious rhetoric will bite its own ass trying to nail only women in a two-person process. — Neko Case

We've had this conversation before, but humor me. How many people in this room have a soul? A shot at heaven, or whatever there is after this life. — Stephenie Meyer

Don't mind me askin', Miss - and I know it ain't none of my business, like - but why don't you take 'im up on the offer of a dinner? I mean, gettin' the odd dinner fer nuffin'ain't such a bad thing. — Jacqueline Winspear

If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman. — Napoleon Bonaparte

Those who keep the masses of men in subjection by exercising force and cruelty deprive them at once of two vital foods, liberty and obedience; for it is no longer within the power of such masses to accord their inner consent to the authority to which they are subjected. Those who encourage a state of things in which the hope of gain is the principle motive take away from men their obedience, for consent which is its essence is not something which can be sold. — Simone Weil

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut. — Roald Dahl