Literal Quotes - Page 11

• What's cool is that in the story of the movie [The Hangover] our characters are also really kind of getting to know each other and bonding over the course of the movie. And I think you're seeing a real, a literal sort of friendship growing both in us as actors and on screen as characters.

  Ed Helms

  Real, Hangover, Character

  Source: movies.about.com

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's how you tell the story that makes it new. That's what artists do. They let us look at the world from a different perspective. They let us look at birds in a way that makes us never see birds again in the same way. That's why I don't think computers are healthy for kids. They're too literal. You pop a button and a bluebird comes out. You pop another button and you can take the color blue and shove it into the outline of the bluebird.

  Julie Taymor

  Kids, Artist, Thinking

  8 Copy quote

• There's a literal track: who says what to whom, what are people wearing, etcetera. And there's the abstract track: what ideas are suggested by the literal. And the real movie takes place in the relationship between the literal and the abstract.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Real, Ideas, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal war is waged in segregated, impoverished communities defined largely by race, and the targets are the most vulnerable, least powerful people in our society.

  Michelle Alexander

  Powerful, War, Race

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact is that the camera is literal if anything, which gives it something in common with a thermometer... Often the tension that exists between the pictorial content of a photograph and its record of reality is the picture's true beauty. There is sleight of hand in photography... you make the viewer think he's seeing everything while at the same time you make him realize he's not. I try to make my pictures seem reasonable and then, at the last minute, pull the rug from beneath the viewer's feet, very gently so there's a little thrill.

  John Loengard

  Photography, Reality, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.

  Joan Didion

  World, Stage, Stuck

  "Seeing Things Straight". Interview by Gibson Fay-LeBlanc, www.guernicamag.com. April 15, 2006.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• For the artist, the goal of the painting or musical composition is not to convey literal truth, but an aspect of a universal truth that if successful, will continue to move and to touch people even as contexts, societies and cultures change. For the scientist, the goal of a theory is to convey "truth for now"--to replace an old truth, while accepting that someday this theory, too, will be replaced by a new "truth," because that is the way science advances.

  Daniel Levitin

  Moving, Successful, Artist

  6 Copy quote

• It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.

  George Steiner

  Past

  George Steiner (1974). “In Bluebeard's Castle: Some Notes Towards the Redefinition of Culture”, p.3, Yale University Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Space, Pieces, Kind

  "An Interview with Jason Shawn Alexander & Sloan Schaffer : No Good At Exits Stuns @ 101/Exhibit’s 2nd Location". Interview with Franceasca Seiden, laicreatives.com. April 17, 2014.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Sea, Land, Gita

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Prayer, Self, Denial

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.43, Rajpal & Sons

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Equality, Men, Law

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.362, Rajpal & Sons

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We become what we love and who we love shapes what we become. If we love things, we become a thing. If we love nothing, we become nothing. Imitation is not a literal mimicking of Christ, rather it means becoming the image of the beloved, an image disclosed through transformation. This means we are to become vessels of God's compassionate love for others.

  Clare of Assisi

  Love, Christian, Mean

  560 Copy quote

• I don't read the Bible as the literal word of God; I don't view Jesus as a God. I've rejected both those statements. I view Jesus as a model for how we should live, and by that definition I do consider myself a Christian.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Christian, Jesus, Views

  Source: www.truth-out.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I tend to be kind of literal about translation. I think it's important to present the writer as closely as possible.

  Ann Goldstein

  Thinking, Important, Be Kind

  Source: time.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The Bible represents a fundamental guidepost for millions of people on the planet, in much the same way the Koran, Torah, and Pali Canon offer guidance to people of other religions. If you and I could dig up documentation that contradicted the holy stories of Islamic belief, Judaic belief, Buddhist belief, pagan belief, should we do that? Should we wave a flag and tell the Buddhists that the Buddha did not come from a lotus blossom? Or that Jesus was not born of a literal virgin birth? Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical.

  Dan Brown

  Jesus, Buddhist, Islamic

  4 Copy quote

• Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

  John Wesley

  Taken, Trying, Littles

  10 Copy quote

• They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'd think that lying would leave something of a sour taste. So my theory is that when the devil wants to get something out of you, he doesn't lie at all. He tells you the exact, literal truth. And he lets you find your own way to hell.

  Mike Carey

  Lying, Father, Pride

  "Lucifer" by Mike Carey, Issue 10, "Children and Monsters", Part 1, 1999-2006.

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

  Robert Hughes

  Evil, World, Made

  Robert Hughes (2015). “The Spectacle of Skill: New and Selected Writings of Robert Hughes”, p.59, Vintage

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The clumsiest literal translation is a thousand times more useful than the prettiest paraphrase.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Thousand, Paraphrase, Prettiest

  Vladimir Nabokov (2012). “Vladimir Nabokov: Selected Letters 1940-1977”, p.179, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• In this crazy mirror of terror and art a pseudo-quotation made up of obscure Shakespeareanisms (Chapter Three) somehow produces, despite its lack of literal meaning, the blurred diminutive image of the acrobatic performance that so gloriously supplies the bravura ending for the next chapter.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Art, Crazy, Mirrors

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1996). “Novels and Memoirs, 1941-1951”, Library of America

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Studios are used to have an investment in you, an actual, literal investment in an actor. You paid them some money, you had a contract with them and you were almost like a commodity.

  Ben Affleck

  Actors, Investment, Commodity

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• All of my songs are about me and my experiences. They're very literal.

  Lily Allen

  Song

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, music.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There is a straight-forward definition for 'Independent Filmmaking'. The term references a group of films that are financed by money that comes from outside the studio system. In a literal sense that is what it means.

  Andrew Neel

  Mean, Independent, Groups

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Wholeness is sort of a dubious concept. Because in terms of the human body and literal wholeness and structures, you think: "here are the structures that help make me whole." Family, or school, or the city I live in. When those structures are dysfunctional or decaying, you end up kind of Frankensteining pieces from everywhere in order to make yourself sated and comfortable and alive.

  Carrie Brownstein

  School, Thinking, Order

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source