The suspicion is in the air nowadays that the superiority of one of our formulas to another may not consist so much… — William James Copy Share Image
When people say "the body," frequently they mean the literal body, the physical body. — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become… — J. J. Abrams 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
I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about… — Andy Kim Copy Share Image
I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm… — Amber Tamblyn Copy Share Image
I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith. — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive;… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. And I say no, it's not, Dad. Well, I believe that… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
Well, the role of our "allies," in my view, is a scandal. 53 other countries cooperated in the kidnapping, "extraordinary rendition," of… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension… — John Loengard 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
“No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face." [ The Autumnal ]” — John Donne Copy Share Image
I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains… — Ann Goldstein 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
I was also thinking about isolation on an evolutionary scale as well, like when you think of an island like Madagascar where… — Colin Stetson Copy Share Image
I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of… — W. Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender… — Benjamin L. Corey Copy Share Image
There have always been dreamers. Men and women who catch a glimpse of something beyond themselves who dare to reach for goals… — Tommy Tenney Copy Share Image
We know that the gifts which men have do not come from the schools. If a man is a plain, literal, factual… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I invoke that sense of the particulars of that kind of literal travel and what that has meant historically in terms of… — Anne Waldman 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
Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric… — Kim Chernin Copy Share Image
Through humility, soul-searching, and prayerful contemplation we have gained a new understanding of certain dogmas. The church no longer believes in a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image