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
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
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 literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life. — Victoria Moran 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
We cannot cheat on DNA. We cannot get round photosynthesis. We cannot say I am not going to give a damn about… — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth 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
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
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
The literal resurrection of every soul who has lived and died on earth is a certainty, and surely one should make careful… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense.... — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those… — Tim DeChristopher 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
Drama is not a literal portrayal of events. It's a depiction, it's impressionistic. — Chris Chibnall Copy Share Image
Art is revelation instead of information, expression instead of description, creation instead of imitation or repetition. Art is concerned with the HOW,… — Josef Albers Copy Share Image
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it… — Fred Durst 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
“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
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
Because of their excessive commitment to a literal Bible, fundamentalist Christians have fallen into the trap of biblioltry. — Mel White 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
That's why the virgin birth never gets rid of the human mother. The story only gets rid of the human father. So… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
