People have become so literal because they're used to reality-based television. — Julie Taymor Copy Share Image
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. — Alain Robert Copy Share Image
Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation. — Brad Paisley Copy Share Image
I do not know why one should not hunt two hares even in the literal sense… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western. — Roberto Orci Copy Share Image
Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts. — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth. — Elmer Davis 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
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can… — Karl Marx 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
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
I think it is just a matter of time before we have literal ghosts in the machine so you can create an… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them.… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform… — Julia Penelope Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
This is a city of absolute enchantment in the literal sense of the word. It loosens all the bonds binding the traveller… — Dervla Murphy 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
I took my fear to literal heights and went skydiving over a year ago. It was in that moment, gazing over the… — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
“What is truth?” I said. “Is it the shallow assurance that something literally took place, or is it about something far deeper,… — Michael Lister 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
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
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
It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from… — Julie Taymor 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
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
It is evident, indeed, that such a doctrine, taken by itself in a literal manner, had no future. The world, in continuing… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
I have always endeavoured, as my double duty of believer and sovereign dictated, to follow the precepts of the sacred Book of… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
“In entirety, valentine is a FUCKING DAY, rather than the sanctity of its literal meaning.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
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