Star Wars quotes get their day today. May the Fourth be With You isn’t Obi-Wan Kenobi with a lisp. May 4 is Star Wars Day, thanks to a clever play on the classic Jedi Knight phrase “May the force be with you,” in the Star Wars movie series. Those who like Star Wars will celebrate May the Fourth be with you by adding numerous star wars quotes into their conversations. The most popular Star Wars quotes that most people recognize appear on May the Fourth be with you in lists all over the web. But any obscure Star Wars quotes like a low interest loansto forgotten scenes are the most fun, like "I suggest a new strategy, R2. Let the wookiee win."
May the Fourth be with you
For movie geeks, “May the Force be with you” is to Star Wars what “Live long and prosper” is to Star Trek. It is the best of all Star Wars quotes; a symbol of the status the Star Wars universe has achieved in our culture. In all six of the George Lucas' Star Wars movies, "May the Force be with you" is said by at least one character. In 2005, the line was chosen as No. 8 on the American Film Institute list, AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes. To set the record straight, a definition is given by the geeks at Wookieepedia:
“May the Force be with you” was a phrase used to wish luck, generally when individuals parted ways or the object of the expression was facing some type of imminent challenge. The phrase implied the speaker’s wish the power of the Force would be working alongside the addressee, in order the addressee’s goals would be a lot more effectively accomplished.”
Yoda quotes
Yoda's quotes will always be probably the most popular Star Wars quotes uttered on May the Fourth be with you. Yoda’s trademark idiom of reversing the subject and predicate in all of his sentences could be used by Star Wars geeks to imitate the little green badass in virtually any conversation. For instance, “The bus to work, I will take,” will use the very same twisted sentence structure as the Yoda quote “Strong I am, with the force.” Yoda quotes abound on the web. Samples are here at quotemountain.com:
Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you. Grave danger you are in. Impatient you are. Try not. Do or don’t, there is no try. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will. Always in motion is the future. Size matters not. Blind we are, if creation of this clone army we could not see. Help you I can, yes. Agree with you the council does. Your apprentice Skywalker will be. When 900 years you reach, look as good, you’ll not.
More quotes from Star Wars
May the Force be with you is spoken by Star Wars characters in virtually each situation described above. Even Han Solo, whose most famous Star Wars quote may be “Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid,” blesses Luke Skywalker with this famous phrase before the attack on the Death Star battle station in the first Star Wars movie released in 197. In that film, Princess Leia, jumping into Luke’s arms and about to swing on a rope like Tarzan and Jane over a bottomless chasm, simply says “Good luck.”
Sources
American Film Institute list, AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Movie Quotes
http://www.afi.com/tvevents/100years/quotes.aspx
little green badass
http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/yoda/
first Star Wars movie released in 197
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076759/
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