Literal Quotes

201 quotes by 179 authors

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical… — J. J. Abrams
Most men I know rely on women to do all the literal dirty work. — Elizabeth Banks
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to… — Matthew Barney
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense. — Theodor Adorno
I believe the Scriptures teach that there's a literal heaven and a literal hell, just like Jesus said. And without forgiveness of sins that, yeah,… — Kirk Cameron
In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of… — Noam Chomsky
The sceptic ultimately undermines democracy (1) because he can see no significance in death and such things of a literal equality; (2) because he introduces… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you… — Deepak Chopra
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.... Each new historical era… — George Steiner
...The Bill of Rights is a literal and absolute document. The First Amendment doesn't say you have a right to speak out unless the government… — Harry Browne
In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les… — Louis Pasteur
Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and… — Zig Ziglar
The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, ("to think") and tra ("tool'). So the literal translation is "a tool of thought." And that's… — Russell Simmons
With respect to the words "general welfare," I have always regarded them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them… — James Madison
If there was not one man Adam and one woman Eve, and a literal event of the one man Adam taking the fruit in rebellion… — Ken Ham
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible. — John Shelby Spong
And Christ was born into the world as the literal Son of this Holy Being; he was born in the same personal, real, and literal… — Bruce R. McConkie
As far as this life is concerned, [Jesus] was born of Mary and of Elohim; he came here as an offspring of that Holy Man… — Bruce R. McConkie
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints proclaims that Jesus Christ is the Son of God in the most literal sense. The body in… — Ezra Taft Benson
More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth. — Rosalind E. Krauss

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