Quotes of: Literate Keyword

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Beer for breakfast, ale for lunch, stout with dinner and a few mugs in between. The average Northern European, including women and children drank three liters of beer a day. That's almost two six-packs, but often the beer had a much higher alcoholic ...

The Devil's Cup: A History of the World According to Coffee

, who literally wrote , is also part of the Overview Institute. And he thinks of space travel largely as does—an evolutionary step. "If fish could think at our level of intelligence," White said, "back before humanity existed, and some fish were st...

Fringe-ology: How I Tried to Explain Away the Unexplainable-And Couldn't

Es muy útil, cuando uno es joven, aprender la diferencia entre «literal» y «figurado». Si algo ocurre de forma literal, ocurre realmente; si algo ocurre de forma figurada, es como si estuviese ocurriendo. Si tú estás literalmente volando de al...

The Bad Beginning

I think there's something to the idea that the divine dwells more easily in text than in images. Text allows for more abstract thought, more of a separation between you and the physical world, more room for you and God to meet in the middle. I find i...

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

The Bible is right: A deluge of images does encourage idolatry. Look at the cults of personality in America today. Look at Hollywood. Look at Washington. I'd like to see the next presidential race be run according to Second Commandment principles. No...

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

There are monsters among us. I mean this quite literally.

BLADE MAN

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

A lot of what making art is, is just being open, and empty. And putting yourself in the right place for things to, literally, come together.

Bill Viola

Myths are not to be despised, but reading them literally is not to be recommended.

Varieties of Culture History

I was always trying to find the balance between trying my best and being an incredible parent. I literally realized that it was chaos - but it was happy chaos.

Soleil Moon Frye

If there were such a thing as terminal literalism, you'd have died in childhood.

City of Bones

You could literally be perfect and people would still hate you, for being perfect.

Ryan Lochte

I literally fell among Quakers when I went up to Oxford.

Lionel Blue

Not writing is never an option. This is not words of advice. It's just literally never an option!

Lillian R. Melendez

Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

Malcolm Boyd

Sometimes I say things that I think are obviously sarcastic and people take them quite literally.

Megan Fox

I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.

Mitch Hedberg

And I thought kitty liter was the unlawful practice of discarding small felines along the roadside.

Robert J. Morrissette

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise.

Robert Scheer

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Charlotte Whitton