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Are women literal creatures? I have to admit this is not my forte. — Alex Rosa

'Mysticism' here means, in the literal sense, a change of sensory impressions and organ sensations into something unreal and beyond this world. — Wilhelm Reich

I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories. — John Shelby Spong

I promise you, when I'm done, your ass will be sore, but others will be dead." "You're not being literal, are you?" "Yes, your ass will be sore." I — Aleatha Romig

This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family. — John Thorn

Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me. — Sam Abell

We just sat there quiet for a long time, which was fine, and I was thinking about way back in the very beginning in the Literal Heart of Jesus ... — John Green

It is just possible that feminists have been literal-minded and, in pursuit of a political goal, have lost their sense of humour. — Mary Norris

A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer. — Mahatma Gandhi

All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal. — Lily Allen

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

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

You never saw such a crazy cat. 'Up the wall' took on a literal meaning. — Arnold Hano

"All men are born equal and free" is not Nature's law in the literal sense. — Mahatma Gandhi

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. — Bo Burnham

I hated it when literally was used for non-literal things. I popped the tab on my soda can and returned her grin. Over my dead body ... literally. — Tarryn Fisher

...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

Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect. — Emily Blunt

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

And after all, our mythology may be much nearer to literal truth than we suppose. — C.S. Lewis

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

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

My work never directly addresses the literal subject matter of the photograph, but attempts to ask questions about vision itself. — Uta Barth

All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact. — Paula Scher

I've always had a more spatial mind, mathematical, than literal. — Portia Doubleday

I will argue that in the literal sense the programmed computer understands what the car and the adding machine understand, namely, exactly nothing. — John Searle

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