Around Quote by John Cooper Clarke

It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if…

— Anonymous

I don't ever get too literal.

— Linda Perry

Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.

— Teju Cole

One of the standard story-generating engines for science fiction is to take something we normally think of as metaphoric and treat it as if…

— Robert J. Sawyer

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

— Anonymous

“It will not, however, affect one tiny bit the question of whether the text has a literal meaning because—mark this—every biblical text has a…

— Mark Shea

“No one is yet using figuratively to mean literally; the confusion, such as it is, is all in one direction.”

— Ammon Shea

Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification

— Robert Smithson

Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real.

— Terry Pratchett

Metaphor is not, and never has been, a mere literary term. It is an event.

— Mary Ruefle

I used to be very figurative and also just kind of scared to talk about the way I felt in a literal way.

— SZA

Reality is a cliché from which we escape by metaphor.

— Wallace Stevens