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Quotes from John Jackson Miller

Accept no favors, and you'll never owe any
~ John Jackson Miller
Starships were settlements in the sky. Some were villages; Ultimatum was a great metropolis. And yet even Star Destroyers functioned like small towns. A big sink full of gossip—and as with small towns, the contents all tended to flow toward one person, like water to a drain.
~ John Jackson Miller
may the Force be with you all while we wait with bated breath for Star Wars: The Force Awakens!
~ John Jackson Miller
When your job's to make sure nothing ever happens," he'd once heard, "you begin to see nothing happening
~ John Jackson Miller
The only side worth saving," he said, turning toward her, "is ours?
~ John Jackson Miller
Exercise was the rent the body charged for granting the mind space.
~ John Jackson Miller
She'd become more concerned about wasting days than wasting profits. It was as if her life had suddenly gained an importance and a weight it previously didn't have, or that she'd denied. She didn't know the reason.
~ John Jackson Miller
Whether this is your first Star Wars adventure, or one of many over the years: Thank you. Thank you for your dedication to and passion for the Star Wars galaxy. Because of fans like you around the world, the Force will be with us, always. Dave Filoni Executive Producer and Supervising Director, Star Wars Rebels
~ John Jackson Miller
Is there something bad that could have been prevented if someone'd been watching over you?
~ John Jackson Miller
She had set her own course in life and done so successfully. Just hearing that such a thing was possible improved his mood.
~ John Jackson Miller
Controlling nothing. Consider that! The youngling and the aged experience it — the struggle with ineffectuality. Controlling nothing is the true death. But I have come back from the dead. And through me, the Empire will control everything.
~ John Jackson Miller
Some days you get the bear...
~ John Jackson Miller
One thing you learn as you get older: the secret to a happy work life is finding a desk chair you can live with.
~ John Jackson Miller
The evil that men do lives after them; To be immortal, learn that lesson well. —MARC ANTONY, at the execution of Brutus The Revenge of Julius Caesar
~ John Jackson Miller
Starfleet, where keeping decorum ranked just beneath exploration as its reason for existing.
~ John Jackson Miller
I said, I'm talking to you!" "No, you aren't," she said, continuing to walk through the mud. "If you were talking to me, you'd use my real name." Picking up his pace, the drunk laughed. "How'm I supposed to know who you are?" "Precisely!
~ John Jackson Miller
Unfortunately, Bretorius had found mediocrity too high a bar. He had advanced in the fleet the old-fashioned way: he'd stuck around so long they had to give him a command, or muster him out.
~ John Jackson Miller
You're fortunate I've already beaten someone else to death today, gunslinger. I have a schedule to keep.
~ John Jackson Miller
Firing a manager inspired only the ambitious who wanted to take his or her place. But murder motivated everyone. It belonged in every supervisor's tool kit.
~ John Jackson Miller
Force is the only real and unanswerable power. Oftentimes, beings who haven't been duly punished cannot be reasoned with or edified.
~ John Jackson Miller
the mystical Force, the energy field all Jedi drew upon for strength, could come in handy.
~ John Jackson Miller
This was how the Empire would conquer and rule, he thought: through might and fear. The
~ John Jackson Miller
The Galactic Empire endures. Despite the destruction of its terrifying Death Star by the Rebel Alliance, its oppression spreads undiminished across the stars.
~ John Jackson Miller
commander to a frail man, still jabbing
~ John Jackson Miller