Threepios Quotes & Sayings

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence. — Al Jarreau

I don't see life divided into public and private, secular and sacred. It's all an open place of service before our God. — Charles R. Swindoll

A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is. — Billie Burke

I believe everyone should have the freedom to represent what they believe-in in their own way. — Nia Long

Fortunately, where reason failed, blind panic served well enough. — N.K. Jemisin

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead. — Augustus Y. Napier

I obviously love those characters [Avengers] with my whole heart. I was on a one-man "Luke Cage is cool" campaign for most of the Aughts. When we announced the New Avengers line-up, and Luke Cage and Spider-Woman were there, a lot of fans went, "WHAT?!?!?! Bulls - t!" And I had to prove myself. They were right: I can't just announce they're cool. What's less cool than that? I have to show that they're cool! But this is way farther than I ever thought it would go. — Brian Michael Bendis

All's well that ends better. — J.R.R. Tolkien

The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome. — Erwin McManus

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop. — Anne Carson

When the cities are gone, he thought, and all the ruckus has died away, when sunflowers push up through the concrete and asphalt of the forgotten interstate freeways, when the Kremlin and the Pentagon are turned into nursing homes for generals, presidents and other such shitheads, when the glass-aluminum skyscraper tombs of Phoenix Arizona barely show above the sand dunes, why then, why then, why then by God maybe free men and wild women on horses, free women and wild men, can roam the sagebrush canyonlands in freedom - goddammit! - herding the feral cattle into box canyons, and gorge on bloody meat and bleeding fucking internal organs, and dance all night to the music of fiddles! banjos! steel guitars! by the light of a reborn moon! - by God, yes! Until, he reflected soberly, and bitterly, and sadly, until the next age of ice and iron comes down, and the engineers and the farmers — Edward Abbey

I stood up. "You're going. With Billy. To Florida? — Heather Demetrios