Literal Quotes - Page 7

• Praise is literal food for feminine qualities. If you want your woman to grow in her radiance health, happiness, love, beauty, power and depth, praise these qualities. Praise them daily. A number of times.

  David Deida

  Love Is, Numbers, Quality

  David Deida (2008). “The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.90, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I try to simplify it. I like to give people hints or words that make visual pictures for them.

  Neko Case

  Song, Writing, People

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• Every part of the photographic image carries some information that contributes to its total statement; the viewer's responsibility is to see, in the most literal way, everything that is there and respond to it.

  Howard S. Becker

  Reading, Responsibility, Connections

  "Do Photographs Tell the Truth?". 1986.

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• The resources of nature, like those of spirit, are running out, and all that a conscientious man can aspire to be is a literal conservative, hoarding what remains of culture and of natural wealth against the fierce appetites of modern life.

  Russell Kirk

  Running, Men, Hoarding

  Russell Kirk (2001). “The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot”, p.362, Regnery Publishing

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• There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.

  John Smith

  Religion, Spirit, Mystical

  John Smith, Simon Patrick, John Worthington (1821). “Select discourses”, p.467

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• The devil, as a master of deceit, does everything he can to keep people from believing in the existence of a hell; but hell is a literal state of existence that will be the plight of all those who reject the Lord Jesus Christ.

  Tim LaHaye

  Jesus, Believe, People

  Tim LaHaye (2010). “Revelation Unveiled”, p.418, Zondervan

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• Music was all over my house, and all over literally my genetic house, and my house in the literal sense. So I kind of couldn't avoid it.

  Audra McDonald

  House, Kind

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The individual in the ordinary circumstances of living may feel more unreal than real; in a literal sense, more dead than alive; precariously differentiated from the rest of the world, so that his identity and autonomy are always in question.... He may not possess an over-riding sense of personal consistency or cohesiveness. He may feel more insubstantial than substantial, and unable to assume that the stuff he is made of is genuine, good, valuable. And he may feel his self as partially divorced from his body.

  R. D. Laing

  Real, Self, Consistency

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• Poets... are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts.

  Archibald MacLeish

  Hurt, Men, Poet

  Archibald MacLeish (1978). “Riders on the Earth: essays and recollections”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• My great longing is to make those very incorrectnesses, those deviations, remodellings, changes in reality, so that they may become, yes, lies if you like - but truer than the literal truth.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Truth, Lying, Reality

  Rosemary Treble, Vincent van Gogh (1975). “Van Gogh and his art”

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• I was struggling to find a way to make evening clothes more deconstructed. I like to think that I translated the Latin concept in a more modern way. I don't think that I was that literal.

  Vera Wang

  Latin, Struggle, Thinking

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• Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's so advantageous to go to a place that you already have a feel for, a literal and spiritual familiarity.

  Campbell Scott

  Spiritual, Trying, Directors

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• If one takes a public stand against, say, most any sin you can think of, one is considered "courageous" and a "defender of the faith." Folks will quickly applaud you and tell you how much they admire you for "taking a stand" on biblical truth. Except if you quote Matt. 5:44 and invite people to apply it in any sort of meaningful, literal way. The moment one begins to talk about loving your enemies they all of a sudden become "liberals," "extremists," or are accused of completely taking an otherwise straight forward passage "out of context.

  Benjamin L. Corey

  Meaningful, Peace, Biblical

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• People are incredibly literal sometimes in how they view you. You have dark hair and pale skin? You must be brooding. The second you dye your hair blond and get a spray tan, people treat you as if you're a bit stupider and happier.

  Anna Paquin

  Dark, Hair, Views

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

  Arnold Hano

  Wall, Crazy, Cat

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• Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Sex, Cat, Men

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.87, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that writers who might never otherwise meet and talk do so because of our anthologies.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Important, Fiction, Might

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• In the modern corporation the decisive power, that of the managers , is derived from no one but the managers themselves controlled by nobody and nothing and responsible to no one. It is in the most literal sense unfounded, unjustified, uncontrolled and irresponsible power.

  Peter Drucker

  Corporations, Modern, Responsible

  Peter F. Drucker (2017). “The Future of Industrial Man”, p.74, Routledge

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• There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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• Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

  Edgar Alwin Payne

  Artist, Inability, Departure

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• The secret dread of modern intellectuals, liberals and conservatives alike, the unadmitted terror at the root of their anxiety, which all of their current irrationalities are intended to stave off and to disguise, is the unstated knowledge that Soviet Russia [was] the full, actual, literal, consistent embodiment of the morality of altruism, that Stalin did not corrupt a noble ideal, that this is the only way altruism has to be or can ever be practiced.

  Ayn Rand

  Russia, Roots, Anxiety

  Ayn Rand (1984). “Philosophy: Who Needs It”, p.71, Penguin

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• I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay.

  Martin Luther

  May, Follow Me, Preaching

  Martin Luther (2012). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• I am a terrible and lazy Christian. I do not believe that the Bible is the literal word of God. I just skip about a third of it. I love the parts I love so much, but I find a lot of it just appalling. When a right-wing person quotes a passage in order to attack and stigmatize another person--or group of people--I just roll my eyes.

  Anne Lamott

  Christian, Believe, Eye

  "Interview with Anne Lamott, Author of Help, Thanks, Wow". Interview with Jana Llewellyn, www.friendsjournal.org. January 30, 2013.

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• Language is power, in ways more literal than most people think. When we speak, we exercise the power of language to transform reality. Why don't more of us realize the connection between language and power?

  Julia Penelope

  Exercise, Thinking, Reality

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• I am constantly torn between the attitude of the conscientious journalist who is a recorder and interpreter of the facts and of the creative artist who often is necessarily at poetic odds with the literal facts.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Attitude, Artist, Odds

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