“When I said I'd follow you to hell and back, I wasn't trying to be literal, princess.” — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Our sacred contract is not a literal document. That's the first thing to understand. We could think of our sacred contract as… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
“Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It’d be so damn literal! You are using that machine to… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
You have to lead, in the case of a game show, a contestant through the architecture of the show. So there's a… — Michael Ian Black Copy Share Image
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly… — John Searle Copy Share Image
“We're literal people, you and me. Whatever the most obvious interpretation is, that's our truth.” — Brenna Yovanoff 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
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
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 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
I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the… — Lesley Manville Copy Share Image
Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel.… — J. Frank Norris Copy Share Image
A knowledge of the true age of the Earth and of the fossil record makes it impossible for any balanced intellect to… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It will not, however, affect one tiny bit the question of whether the text has a literal meaning because—mark this—every biblical text… — Mark Shea Copy Share Image
The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of… — Ayn Rand 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
Theologians will protest that the story of Abraham sacrificing Issac should not be taken as literal fact. And the appropriate response is… — Richard Dawkins 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
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
I completely don't enjoy sci-fi. I have to say that's a genre I'm deeply, deeply not into. I can't - I'm so… — Kelly Reichardt Copy Share Image
I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
The expressive body is not literal; it's very primal, and that's what I feel when I make the best of my work.… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy. — Portia Doubleday Copy Share Image
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can… — Michael Stipe Copy Share Image
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The… — Elliot W. Eisner Copy Share Image
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of… — Anselm Kiefer Copy Share Image
I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work… — Jason Shawn Alexander Copy Share Image
I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The utter unbroken silence was more appalling than any ominous noise, than the loudest yells of anguish, than the most piercing screaming...… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons. — Andrew Keegan Copy Share Image
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