Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry. — Mel White Copy Share Image
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion,… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
It's impossible to make a movie out of 'Naked Lunch.' A literal translation just wouldn't work. It would cost $400 million to… — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“How beautiful black-and-white is. It's not literal. It's a metaphor automatically, already saying, this is not life, it's ABOUT life.” — Mike Nichols 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
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
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for… — David Icke Copy Share Image
When I was a child, my parents taught a literal creation. By the time I was in my 20s they were accommodating… — Frank Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Literally' - I'm not having it; people can't go around saying 'literally.' Otherwise, what's literal? There's not another word for literally: if… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
Since a photograph is frozen and mute, since there is no before and after, I don't want there to be a conscious… — Gregory Crewdson Copy Share Image
My favorite records are, like, The Pretty Things' 'Parachute' and 'S.F. Sorrow' and The Mothers of Invention's 'We're Only in It for… — Ty Segall Copy Share Image
There is a thing called the death wish, a literal thing. It doesn't mean you want to die. It just means however… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
My work makes people understand things in a visual way that I could never understand in a literal way - like the… — Ali Banisadr 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
Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is… — Leonard J. Arrington Copy Share Image
“I don’t even know if we have a broom closet, Mrs. Levin,” said Tasha. “Tasha, honestly! In this world, to be overly… — Gabrielle Zevin 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
You and I must realize that the English language is filled with words that, in addition to their literal meanings, convey distinct… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
I've got pages and pages of snippets of stuff, and if Max [Hershenow] sends me a track to write to I'll go… — Lizzy Plapinger Copy Share Image
When every event was a miracle, when there was no order or system or law, there was no occasion for studying any… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day. I… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the… — Walter Pater 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
In order to deliver the emotional truth in the story, you have to include some of the literal truth. — Theresa Breslin 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
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
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
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
Anybody who has read any biblical scholarship knows that every scholar struggles over completely intractable problems with the original texts, or what… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in… — Howard S. Becker Copy Share Image
When I went to high school in Australia, I was exposed to textbooks that outlined evolutionary ideas - such as ape-like creatures… — Ken Ham Copy Share Image
People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The… — Anna Paquin Copy Share Image
I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and… — Silas Weir Mitchell Copy Share Image
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