When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
As a whole, I am interested in the symbolic, rather than the literal use of the camera. — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning. — Arnold Hano Copy Share Image
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic. — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can… — Catherine Keener Copy Share Image
Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of… — Edgar Alwin Payne Copy Share Image
Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
I sort of took the literal term of 'The Cleaner,' and I started bringing janitorial items to the ring with me, so… — Kenny Omega Copy Share Image
In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
“How nice it was when expressions and idioms really echoed actual fact , and became literal , as well as figurative ,… — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best… — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical. — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
People ask me all the time if I'm from a family of writers. The literal short answer is no, but my father… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
There are a couple of strategies for writing about an absence or writing about a loss. One can create the person that… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
The literal record was not a hopelessly and imperfect fraction of truly insensible gradation within large populations but an accurate reflection of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I like Roy Orbison's video for 'I Drove All Night' because it's so literal. It is just a man driving throughout the… — Richard Ayoade Copy Share Image
In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The words 'California's Gold' will no longer mean anything about me or about a television series. They will mean what California's Gold… — Huell Howser Copy Share Image
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
If 'god' is a metaphysical term, then it cannot be even probable that a god exists. For to say that 'God exists'… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
In the performance of an illocutionary act in the literal utterance of a sentence, the speaker intends to produce a certain effect… — John Searle Copy Share Image
The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal,… — Bruce R. McConkie Copy Share Image
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social… — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything. — Gillian Wearing Copy Share Image
