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The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.
— Harold Geneen
It is not the literal past, the 'facts' of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.
— Brian Friel
All religions are true but none are literal.
— Joseph Campbell
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
Painting is the chance to create a different space, or different way of picturing a literal stream of images.
— Cynthia Daignault
The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.
— Christopher Hitchens
No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.[The Autumnal] — John Donne
Don't forget I could make you play a literal game of 'stop hitting yourself,'" Aegis said.
— Terry Bolryder
If I see a fashion show with literal influences, it doesn't make me think any more. It doesn't make me dream.
— Raf Simons
'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world.
— Wilhelm Reich
The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
— Iain McGilchrist
I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
— John Shelby Spong
However, monarchs are literal Gods in your fantasy
— Krista D. Ball
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
— John Thorn
Best friends are literal and figurative life savers that we should thank as often as possible for rescuing us from ourselves.
— Joshunda Sanders
The literal heart of jesus
— John Green
If you ever make anything too literal you might as well forget it. It loses everything.
— Gillian Wearing
Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.
— Roberto Orci
The literal, basic thing of the stage is really like a magnet. It brings me back to earth.
— Al Pacino
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
— Alain Robert
I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.
— Francis Collins
I don't like literal spaces, I don't like literal anything. I still like some kind of guess work but some pieces work and they just pop.
— Jason Shawn Alexander
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.
— Jonathan Haidt
If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
— Peter Morgan
People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.
— Benjamin Clementine
In entirety, valentine is a FUCKING DAY, rather than the sanctity of its literal meaning.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.
— Northrop Frye
When the only rule is there are no rules becomes literal, we'll all become illiterate and unable to offend one another at all.
— Brian Spellman
When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.
— Elmer Davis
You've been inside me since the day we met. It's time I return the favor. Only I'm going to be much more literal.
— Vi Keeland
I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
— Josephine Baker
Film in many ways is very literal.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
I'm more androgynous, because men are supposed to be more spatial, women more literal - I'm a tomboy.
— Portia Doubleday
I do not consider myself a literal genius.
— Lil' Wayne
Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
— Poul Anderson
We ascribe value to him (the literal meaning of the word "worship") based not on who he is, but on what he can do for us.
— Skye Jethani
Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction.
— Saul Bellow
Don't swear in the Literal Heart of Jesus.
— John Green
For me, Satan and a literal hell are fables born of Christianity's desire to control humanity by increasing its fear of death.
— Christopher Pike
Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
— Susanna Moore
My literal responsibility as director of the CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval; to inform.
— Michael Hayden
But while the color may sap appetite in the most literal sense, it feeds it in others.
— Maggie Nelson
I'd like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It'd be so damn literal! You are using that machine to it's exact purpose!
— Mitch Hedberg
I have always been quite good at falling in love, but I don't pretend to know anything about literal happily ever afters.
— Jennifer Harrison
When I said I'd follow you to hell and back, I wasn't trying to be literal, princess.
— Julie Kagawa
The literal Greek translation is "school for naked exercise." Which made toweling off the stationary bike even more important.
— A. J. Jacobs
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
— Theodor Adorno
...he still never saw her as anything but a direct, literal invitation of God's, dropped into his life for reasons he would never know.
— Philip K. Dick
I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.
— Elvis Costello
I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.
— Ann Goldstein
I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.
— Anne Lamott
They say that you and your soul mate have a string connecting your hearts - not a literal string, but an invisible one.
— Lily Paradis
A glove is a very literal looking hand puppet.
— Demetri Martin
Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.
— Mason Cooley
All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.
— Paula Scher
I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal.
— Portia Doubleday
The literal meaning of life is whatever you're doing that prevents you from killing yourself.
— Albert Camus
His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room.
— Graham Greene
Things have to be believable, not in a literal, photographic sense, but in an emotional sense - capturing the essence of the situation.
— Michael Foreman
Humour is meant, in a literal sense, to make game of man; that is, to dethrone him from his official dignity and hunt him like game.
— G.K. Chesterton
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
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
Literal religion is full of pitfalls.
— Richard Adams
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
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
It's safer to use fiction, which will not be taken for literal truth, but which, like Jesus' stories, can tell the truth indirectly yetpowerfully.
— Wayne Martindale
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
— Joseph Bologna
All translation is a compromise - the effort to be literal and the effort to be idiomatic.
— Benjamin Jowett
The stories I write are often literal to events that have happened or observations that I've made, and sometimes they're fantastical.
— Mark Mothersbaugh
You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.
— Gillian Jacobs
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.
— Edward Gorey
I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.
— Martin Luther
