Literal Quotes

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me. Mitch Hedberg
Me Once Saw Way Lift Forks Literal
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society. Karl Marx
Animal Human Being Political Sense Society Only Merely Most Political Animal Itself Human Gregarious Being Literal Which Midst
A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. Stephen King
Life Eye Of The Beholder Beauty Interpretation Our Eye Out Pretty Scars Bear Ugliness Lot Up Get Beholder Children Literal Whether Us Much Grow Grow Up
The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat. Jacques Yves Cousteau
Hope Great Man Old Before Phrase Only Never Same Literal Boat Meaning Sea Now
The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25. David Icke
Winter Bible Book Three Christian Later Sun Ancient Would Would-Be Days Know End Died December Literal Then Cycle Reborn Believed Actually Start Jesus Symbol Symbolic Christians
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death. Alain Robert
Life Death Dance Enjoy Every Life And Death Between Because Climb Maybe Literal
Until I read Anne Frank's diary, I had found books a literal escape from what could be the harsh reality around me. After I read the diary, I had a fresh way of viewing the both literature and the world. From then on, I found I was impatient with books that were not honest or that were trivial and frivolous. Alexandra Fuller
Me Reality World Books Way Frank Harsh Harsh Reality Impatient Trivial Both Could Had Anne Until Read Around Fresh Were Diary Escape Frivolous Literal After Literature Then Viewing Found Honest
I think people's perception of a rich girl is literal, but metaphorically I embrace it as being rich in love, spirit, joy and religion. So it's not about money. Angie Stone
Love Religion People Joy Money Girl Perception Rich Being Rich Think Embrace Spirit About Being Literal
When the code of laws is once fixed, it should be observed in the literal sense, and nothing more is left to the judge than to determine whether an action is or is not conformable to the written law. Cesare Beccaria
Judge Law Sense Nothing Action Once Determine Laws More Written Written Law Observed Left Than Fixed Literal Whether Should Code
I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith. Francis Collins
Faith Christ Believe Christian Cornerstone Rising Literal Body Christian Faith
We're all sons and daughters of God, and therefore in a very literal sense, brothers and sisters. And we ought to treat each other that way. Gordon B. Hinckley
God Treat Sense Other Ought Way Brothers Brothers And Sisters Daughters Sons Very Sisters Literal Therefore Each
God truly is our Father, the Father of the spirits of all mankind. We are his literal offspring and are formed in his image. We have inherited divine characteristics from him. Joseph B. Wirthlin
God Father Our Our Father Characteristics Spirits Divine Him His Truly Offspring Literal Formed Mankind Inherited Image
Sometimes I want to withhold judgement on whether something is good or bad, but I do feel like identifying with TV characters - connecting to them emotionally more than you connect to literal, physical people in your life - causes problems. They just don't have the same existence or boundaries as you do. They resemble us, but they are not us. Alexandra Kleeman
Life Good You People Sometimes Problems Characters TV Bad Physical Something More Emotionally Feel Boundaries Like Identifying Judgement Withhold Causes Existence Than Same Just Want Literal Whether Them Us Your Connect Resemble Connecting
In a literal sense, even a private company, of course, cannot do everything that it wants without some discussion with government. As a good corporate citizen, Severstal discussed the idea of a merger with Arcelor with the Russian government. Alexei Mordashov
Government Good Citizen Sense Corporate Everything Some Russian Idea Merger Course Without Private Discussed Discussion Literal Wants Cannot Company Even
My children have stolen my dreams in a very literal sense. I've lost months in the minutes and hours that Sabine and Zoey have needed me at night, their thin, butterfly-beating hearts pushed against me in the darkness. Alexi Zentner
Dreams Me Darkness Lost Sense Months Minutes Pushed Hours Very Hearts Stolen Children Literal Against Thin Night Needed
I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it. Amanda Palmer
Art Parents Sense Shame Had Around Metaphor Real Very Survive Real Sense Literal Wanted To Survive
I did have a literal shed of fan mail once. It was literally filled with, like, 25 of those giant mail cartons. Andrew Keegan
Once Those Giant Mail Like Shed Did Literal Fan Literally Fan Mail Filled
I might have been born into a very literal sense of chaos, but in fact that state is true of all of us. Anselm Kiefer
Sense State Chaos Born Fact True Been Very In Fact Literal Might Us
Greg Berlanti is in charge of a lot of superhero shows on television. He is a literal superhero. He is absolutely brilliant. Becky Albertalli
Brilliant Television Charge Superhero Absolutely He Lot Literal Shows
It's not in my nature to be too literal. Bernard Sumner
Nature Too Literal
Our songs aren't metaphorical, normally: they're literal in their interpretation. Brad Paisley
Interpretation Our Songs Metaphorical Normally Literal
I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality. Brian Sutton-Smith
Reality Caricature Adult Toys Understand Trying Children Literal Keep Why Imaginative Phenomenon
Most times when people pitch you as being perfect for a part... they don't look at you as an actor who can transform. A lot of people are so literal. Catherine Keener
You People Perfect Part Look Most Lot Times Pitch Being Literal Transform Who Actor
In America, when you hear about the Underground Railroad, it's so evocative. You think it's a literal subway for a few minutes before your teacher goes on and describes where it actually was. Colson Whitehead
Teacher You Before Few Think Evocative Minutes About Underground Hear America Goes Where Literal Subway Your Railroad Actually
When I started the band, the name 'Silver Jews' had no literal meaning - it was just an abstraction. David Berman
Band Jews Silver Had Abstraction Name Just Literal Meaning Started
I think that 'Station to Station' is a nomadic project not only in a literal sense, as it's traveling by train from place to place. Some of these places are New York City or Los Angeles, but some of these places are rather off-the-grid places. Doug Aitken
Sense Think Project Station City Some Angeles Rather Only New Nomadic Los Los Angeles Train York New York New York City Literal Place Places Traveling
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