I do believe that there are places where the mythological and the literal touch. — Jordan Peterson Copy Share Image
Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn Copy Share Image
“How nice it was when expressions and idioms really echoed actual fact , and became literal , as well as figurative ,… — Alaa Alghamdi Copy Share Image
I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told… — Aminatta Forna Copy Share Image
We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any… — A.J. Ayer Copy Share Image
In workshopping short stories I learned how to get character down, and how to work with ratios of literal to fantastic to… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell;… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. — Uta Barth Copy Share Image
The literal meaning of "yoga" is "union," "integration," "reconnection." But in the context of practice, yoga is a way of gaining access… — Rajmani Tigunait Copy Share Image
My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
One should not interpret the word “Revolution” in its literal sense. Various meanings and significances are attributed to this word, according to… — Bhagat Singh Copy Share Image
There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence… — Michael Hayden Copy Share Image
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
In a very literal way, of course, Shakespeare did change the course of history: when it didn't fit the plot he had… — Neil MacGregor Copy Share Image
Physical separateness can never be overcome by electronics, but only by 'conviviality,' by 'living together' in the most literal physical sense. The… — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Space and force pervade language. Many cognitive scientists (including me) have concluded from their research on language that a handful of concepts… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Discipline is no longer literal obedience but intelligent obedience, for discipline aims at obedience coupled with activity of will. Once discipline weakens… — J. F. C. Fuller Copy Share Image
We've always had the blame-America crowd. We've always had the hate-America crowd. But we've now had at least two generations of education… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The truth is that even in the information age, information is not enough. if all we needed were ideas and positive thinking,… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Everybody remembers numbers and computers remember numbers. People remember procedures and computers certainly remember procedures. But the other thing that's still important… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Though beauty is, with the most apt similitude, I had almost said with the most literal truth, called a flower that fades… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
There was this wonderful day where we sat and listened to all of Andy's [Kim] songs throughout the years, and I think… — Kevin Drew Copy Share Image
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the… — John Smith Copy Share Image
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream. — Raf Simons Copy Share Image
“The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
How to achieve such anomalies, such alterations and re-fashionings of reality so what comes out of it are lies, if you like,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
I don't know anybody that has a teenage son or daughter who at some point hasn't been like, 'God, I hate them'… — Jaime Pressly Copy Share Image
Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
Working for Disney for the last eight and a half years, people come and go - production staff and actors. I stepped… — Jacob Young Copy Share Image
It would be catastrophic if one day these fundamentalists Christians gain enough political power to enforce their literal understanding of Mosaic Law. — Mel White Copy Share Image
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero,… — Rosalind E. Krauss Copy Share Image
“To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are it's victim and we have no… — William Glasser M.D Copy Share Image
Any documentary; any capturing of a non-fiction event, is a hyper-realistic condensation of reality that hopefully reveals an emotional truth. It's never… — Joe Berlinger Copy Share Image
God's truth is literal truth. The illumined mind has more operative cells. In reclaiming the mystical, we take back our whole selves.… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
There are sincere believers who interpret Genesis 1 and 2 in a very literal way that is inconsistent, frankly, with our knowledge… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
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