If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative. — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I… — Sherrie Levine Copy Share Image
I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters. — Jennifer Harrison Copy Share Image
The advocates of literal interpretation have been the most efficacious enemies of those doctrines whose nature they profess to venerate. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters — Thomas Cahill Copy Share Image
Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“How curious it was, [...], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet,… — Alan Bradley Copy Share Image
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible. — Ann Goldstein Copy Share Image
Literal thousands of Americans taking to the road and getting into that green automobile and just going. At the same time there… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more… — Molly Crabapple 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
The walking tour guides one through the city's various landmarks, reciting bits of information the listener might find enlightening. I learned, for… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
I think the most attractive people are the confident ones, regardless of their literal appearance, so I strive for that. Basically, I… — Justine Bateman Copy Share Image
There was a really monstrous and almost literal genocide in the Mayan area, specifically under Ríos Montt. By now it has been… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour,… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I had a house in Haiti, in the hills above the North Atlantic coast. The house appeared as if out of a… — Madison Smartt Bell 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
This - where we are now - is where a culture gets to, when it has chosen, for many years, banality over… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2)… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think that's there are a couple of reasons for that. One is as you're introducing the fourth and fifth versions of… — Kevin Feige Copy Share Image
'Fantasy' is one of the fewer tracks where it's more literal than most of our things, but at the same time it's… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
I do think you can see, throughout American history, this temptation, and it's both a liberal and a conservative temptation, to take… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
Abstraction didn't have to be limited to a kind of rectilinear geometry or even a simple curve geometry. It could have a… — Frank Stella Copy Share Image
Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to… — Dacia Maraini 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
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space. — Garry Winogrand 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
I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism… — David Salle Copy Share Image
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible. — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins,… — William Shawn Copy Share Image
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
Effective stream-of-consciousness narration is the product of verbal precision, not just of literal documentation. It is decidedly not a matter of unedited… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
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![“Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.” quote by John Wesley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/10f/john-wesley-1398_all-things_try-all-things-by-the-written-word-and-l_324608.jpg)
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