Top 27 Quotes About Being Literal

#1. 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

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#2. Cannot it actually be that in a wildly literal sense, unacceptable to one's reason, he meant disappearing in his art, dissolving in his verse, thus leaving of himself, of his nebulous person, nothing but verse?

Vladimir Nabokov

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#3. You want to be a better person? Go listen to someone you disagree with. don't argue with them just listen. It's remarkable what interesting things people will say if you take the time to not be a jerk.

Brandon Sanderson

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#4. Be gracious.
Be fearless.
Be patient.
Be ambitious.

Matshona Dhliwayo

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#5. I'm a big fan of Edouard Vuillard, so I'd like anything by him - particularly a painting called 'Madame Hessel on the Sofa.' His work is realistic without being literal: I can really imagine what Madame Hessel is thinking.

Lesley Manville

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

John Thorn

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#7. We fear not the truth, even if it be gloomy, but its counterfeit.

Berl Katznelson

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#8. I think a really rich world to live in is where you're thinking in terms of human behavior and human types and not being super literal. In order to see the deeper truth, you need to break out of literal frame of mind.

Silas Weir Mitchell

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#9. It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not even afraid of death itself. It's more of a profound... not wanting to leave the party

EXO Books

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#10. 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

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#11. Overly literal translations, far from being faithful, actually distort meaning by obscuring sense.

Ken Liu

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#12. Baby, your nothing but too much trouble. Gotta bury this love and bury the shovel.

Clay Walker

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#13. I first heard "Heaven Without a Gun" when Kevin [Drew] sent it to me, and there was this kind of beauty about it. I don't live that much in the literal world, so you kind of have to see beyond the veil of what you're being shown sometimes. To me, that's such a beautiful, wonderful sentiment.

Andy Kim

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#14. Innocence is always the state of being untouched. Sometimes it's synonymous with virginity, so sometimes it's quite literal, but sometimes it's more of a mental state of being untouched, of not having seen a lot of the world.

Molly Crabapple

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#15. Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

Amelie Nothomb

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#16. 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

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#17. That horrible moment of suspense when the artist shows one of his creations to strange eyes for the first time.

Irving Stone

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#18. Most of us would be upset if we were accused of being "silly." But the word "silly" comes from the old English word "selig," and its literal definition is "to be blessed, happy, healthy and prosperous."

Zig Ziglar

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#19. I think that being an editor, someone who works with words, is very good training for being a translator because it trains you to be attentive to words in a very specific, very concrete, very literal way.

Ann Goldstein

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#20. What Albert Einstein termed optical delusion,
The Indians termed Maya or Illusion.

Mohit K. Misra

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#21. I liked the thought of being a country clergyman. Accordingly I read with care Pearson on the Creed and a few other books on divinity; and as I did not then in the least doubt the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible, I soon persuaded myself that our Creed must be fully accepted.

Charles Darwin

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#22. One of the things that happens a lot is you get to see how many times things happen, literal things happen and how they are completely metaphors for where you are. It's like a mirror is being held up just about an inch to your face.

Cheryl Strayed

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#23. 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

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#24. Bullying consists of the least competent most aggressive employee projecting their incompetence on to the least aggressive most competent employee and winning.

Tim Field

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#25. If it's just screaming - and I know this sounds so ridiculous - that gets old. But sometimes when there's literal chaos, it's like being in a war zone, and that's kind of exciting. You're just running through the crowd of people chasing after you and no one knows what's going on.

Robert Pattinson

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#26. Songs are dangerous, songs are subversive and can change your life.

Ronnie Gilbert

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#27. All I can do is be my best - there will always be people who will never like me.

Jamie Lynn Spears

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