Literal Quotes
Literal Quote of the day
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.
It is something that artists do all the time unconsciously, working in the style of someone they consider a great master. I just wanted to make that relationship literal.
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
When I was thinking about The Lion King, I said, we have to do what theater does best. What theater does best is to be abstract and not to do literal reality.
I have yet to find a faithful tithe payer who cannot testify that in a very literal and wonderful way the windows of Heaven have been opened and blessings have been poured out upon him or her.
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
The arts make vivid the fact that words do not, in their literal form or number, exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.
I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism and literal-mindedness-to insist on and live the life of the imagination.
In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality.
Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.
We're not destroying the world because we're clumsy. We're destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us.
I don't try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.
I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
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.
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself.
We’re destroying the world because we are, in a very literal and deliberate way, at war with it.
Fantasy and science fiction can be literal as well as allegorical and there’s nothing wrong with enjoying a monster like a giant squid for what it is, as well as searching for metaphor.
The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
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 are. This is a quite literal statement.
The virgin birth, understood as literal biology, makes Christ's divinity, as traditionally understood, impossible.
The whole punk ethic was do-it-yourself, and I've always been very literal, especially as a kid. When they said that anybody can do this, I was like, 'OK, that's me.'
A religion such as Judaism or Catholicism might survive even if it comes to reject a literal account of God creating man and animals. But it cannot survive the rejection of an immaterial soul.
Nelson Mandela is, for me, the single statesman in the world. The single statesman, in that literal sense, who is not solving all his problems with guns. It's truly unbelievable.
If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.
Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters
I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing.
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
There are bits of the literal future right here, right now, if you know how to look for them.
We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.
When we talk about how movies used to be made, it was over 100 years of film, literal, physical film, with emulsion, that we would expose to light and we would get pictures.
Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.
