My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.
I loved the world of imagination.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
Working with Scorsese was an absolute dream, and one of my favourite ever jobs was 'Beowulf' because it was just pure acting. Your imagination explodes as you try to imagine you're fighting a dragon or whatever.
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.
I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it lives in you.
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.
We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.
Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.
