YODA QUOTES

quotations about the Star Wars character Yoda

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Our favorite Jedi, Yoda is. Kick ass, he must.

JOANNA DOUGLAS

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It's unclear exactly what kind of creature Yoda is. We know for sure that he's short, green, and very, very old.

PAUL KENT

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A long time ago, in a place far away, a manuscript was created with an enigmatic figure who looks a great deal like a certain little -- and yet powerful -- green guy from the Star Wars films. It's an unlikely connection between a religious tome and science fiction. The similarity to Jedi Grand Master Yoda was recently highlighted by historians Damien Kempf and Maria L. Gilbert on the British Library's Medieval Manuscripts blog. Curator Julian Harrison, who runs the blog, also mentioned the drawing when he spoke to The Guardian about his job and the new popularity of illuminated manuscripts on the Web. It's an interesting interview -- but we couldn't stop wondering: What about that Yoda guy? "The Yoda image comes from a 14th-century manuscript known as the Smithfield Decretals," Harrison said, after we reached out to the British Library. "I'd love to say that it really was Yoda, or was drawn by a medieval time traveler," Harrison continued. "It's actually an illustration to the biblical story of Samson -- the artist clearly had a vivid imagination!"

BILL CHAPPELL

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Yoda is a sorry caricature of a Buddhist Zen master.

L. TAM HOLLAND

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Since his reward for training Jedi knights for the past 800 years is to live all alone in a deserted swamp, it is perhaps not surprising that Yoda is a bit of a crotchety old fart.

JONATHAN GRAVELLS & SUSAN WALLACE

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You think Yoda stops teaching just because his student does not want to hear? A teacher Yoda is.

MICHELLE SINGLETARY

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Yoda is my favourite teacher--and my daughter's nightmare--because he is strict, exacting, looks weird and gives encouragement in very small measures.

SEEMA CHOWDHRY

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Yoda is one of the most iconic and memorable "Star Wars" characters. He's a wise Jedi master, a powerful warrior and, as evidence suggests, an effortlessly on-trend fashion blogger. It seems like a strange comparison, but Twitter user Gabby Noone recognized how the Jedi's clothing, hair, and nails have all become extremely popular fashion trends in the past year.

SIDNEY FUSSEL

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It's into the same bag as E.T. and Yoda, wherein you're trying to create something that people will actually believe, but it's not so much a symbol of the thing, but you're trying to do the thing itself.

JIM HENSON

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Is Yoda an aspiring fashion blogger?
Yeezy season 2 outfit. Check.
Almond shaped acrylics. Check.
On trend grey hair. Check.

GABBY NOONE

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I would think of [Yoda] more like a frog ... big thighs, huge thighs. Kermit thighs. We're going to blend Kermit the Frog with Miss Piggy. This is actually the illegitimate child of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy.

GEORGE LUCAS

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Living where and how he does, Yoda is notably humble and "unworldly," so much so that in his homely, comical looks and voice, his lack of physical might, and the obscure remoteness of his home he echoes the prophecies of Isaiah about the coming Messiah. If Yoda is indeed who he seems to be, then the last are indeed first, the humble are exalted, and the obscure are the luminaries.

ROY M. ANKER

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Whether Yoda is a puppet or a pixel, he's still that old lovable green slimy guy.

DAVE KNOX

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When I did Yoda, me and three other people worked our asses off, and I was sweating every single day, it was tough as hell. Now that it's CGI, 24 people work on Yoda, and I get all the credit -- I do nothing.

FRANK OZ

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The notion that a digitized Yoda could ever be better than Frank Oz with his hand up the business end of a Muppet was exactly the kind of thing that got my Underoos all in a knot.

TONY PACITTI

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The Jedi master Yoda is perhaps the Star Wars trilogy's best representative of spiritual/humanist ways of being in the world. Yoda is so organic that he looks like a root or a tree branch.

SUSAN MACKEY-KALLIS

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Can you name a single scene in which Yoda is actually forthcoming, informative or generously helpful? This supposedly all-wise figure rejects young Anakin, because he senses "too much fear." (Despite the fact that we spent most of The Phantom Menace marveling over a nine-year-old's dauntless courage.) He foresees danger, if the boy isn't trained properly ... then refuses to train him.

DAVID BRIN

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Frank Oz, the US film director, actor and puppeteer who voiced Yoda is the chap responsible for his dodgy diction. From a technical perspective, Yoda uses an object-subject-verb word order instead of the more normal English subject-verb-object sequence. In the Star Wars universe, Yoda's species and home planet are never stated, but here on Earth the object-subject-verb order is downright rare. It crops up in Xavante, a language of the eastern Mato Grosso region of Brazil, as well as in Yiddish and when Sardinians speak Italian.

ROGER HORBERRY

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Yoda is my hero. Not because he's a Jedi master or because he ignores the rules of grammar, more because Yoda is an oasis of calm in the face of crisis. When I'm hit by a crisis, I get flappy-handed and shrill; I am pointedly not an oasis of calm, more a cactus of panic.

TANIA AHSAN

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Yes, I'm aware that Yoda is a petite, fictional character from a space movie series. But he was pretty wise.

KAMI GRAY

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