The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
One of the things that will never get explained in the films is how Ben was able to retain his identity, because it happened somewhere between the third and fourth movies. I set up that this is a discipline that he learned from Yoda; Yoda told him how to do that.
I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.
I have long been interested in landscape history, and when younger and more robust I used to do much tramping of the English landscape in search of ancient field systems, drove roads, indications of prehistoric settlement. Towns and cities, too, which always retain the ghost of their earlier incarnations beneath today's concrete and glass.
You have privacy if you retain the effective capacity to misrepresent yourself.
To retain his dignity, an artist must live in opposition. He must be critical of his country. If not, then he is worthless.
I don't like women who are multiform, who wear many different shapes. Women who retain a unique shape are usually unique people.
I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.
Of the women in my childhood, I retain above all the memory of their perfumes, perfumes that lingered - filling the lift with fragrance long after they had gone.
The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand.
All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned. The conscientious reader will be more concerned to carry out what he has read than merely to acquire knowledge of it. In reading we aim at knowing, but we must put into practice what we have learned in our course of study.
The child of God should not be overanxious to make new gains; what he essentially requires is to keep what he already has, for not losing is itself a gain. The way to retain what he possesses is to engage it.
The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words.
A garment that is double dyed, dipped again and again, will retain the color a great while; so a truth which is the subject of meditation.
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world,. . . Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
If I retain any freshness of approach, it's by going slowly having long intervals between finished projects.
If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell.
The only way to retain love is to give it away.
I am not going to show you my art. I am going to share it with you. If I show it to you it becomes an exhibition, and in time it will be pushed so far into the back of your mind that it will be lost. But by sharing it with you, you will not only retain it forever, but I too will improve.
We are not going to build a pressure in Mexico. We're not building walls to retain our people.