Quotes About Literal

Since the Internet of Things is built on silicon, on the tremendous instability of modern electronics, it's built on literal sand.

Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal

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

We are acting by the letter; and 'the letter killeth.

She had not meant him to translate her words about returning home so literally at the first; she had not intended him to learn her secret; but more than all she was not able to endure the perception of his learning it and continuing unmoved.

Premillennialism simply means the reign of Jesus Christ will be a literal one thousand years and will begin in the future after the Tribulation.

That. . .is the paradox, the part that is perplexing. It seems, that if we take theses stories too literally, if we expect our personal lives to always end with a handsome prince, most of us will close our books with shattered dreams. Yet, on the other hand. . .if we don't take the meaning of these stories literally, if we treat theses tales as simple entertainment, we miss the deepest most life-changing aspects of the stories. We miss the entire reason they exist.

When you want to transcribe an idea truthfully from the page to the screen, it is not necessarily best to be particularly literal about it. It can be hard to convince people, specifically writers, of that.

Conservative Christians take every word of the Bible literally except for the part about Loving Thy Neighbor.

Your subconscious has access to all the same information your conscious mind receives, but it doesn't reason the way your conscious mind does. It takes everything literally. It doesn't make value judgments. It does not filter or interpret, it simply processes information literally and stores it.

The letter is susceptible of operations which enables one to transform literal expressions and thus to paraphrase any statement into a number of equivalent forms. It is this power of transformation that lifts algebra above the level of a convenient shorthand.

His faith was no game he played. It was not a mantle to put on or be taken off as the need arose. The stories he took so literally he held dearer than his own life and he could not doubt them. Doubt would have destroyed him. I had no desire to destroy a foolish old man who suffered a fatal ignorance.

Political correctness in its most literal sense set in early among the Ottomans: their chroniclers mention neither Orhan's alliance with the Christian Byzantine emperor John VI, nor his marriage to Princess Theodora.

Metaphysics in philosophy is, of course, supposed to characterize what is real - literally real. The irony is that such a conception of the real depends upon unconscious metaphors.

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

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.

People pay far too much attention to the television and they're quite literal in some ways. At the beginning, when I was playing very stupid characters, I think people genuinely thought I was possibly quite dim-witted myself, which is a compliment in some ways, as I must have been doing my job very well.

I create fictional narratives, but it's based on literal people.

Comme la théologie chrétienne, la tradition rabbinique distingue 4 niveaux de lecture de la loi : - le sens littéral ; - le sens allusif (métaphorique) ; - le sens profond (moral, religieux) ; - le sens secret (ésotérique, mystique)

The struggle for a free intelligence has always been a struggle between the ironic and the literal mind.

The literal mind can never understand the ironic mind.

the more openly it remains a figure of speech, the more it is a dissimilar similitude and not literal, the more a metaphor reveals its truth.

Poor idiot! Are you so foolish as to believe we will openly teach you the greatest and most important of secrets? I assure you that anyone who attempts to study, according to the ordinary and literal sense of their words, what the Hermetic Philosophers write, will soon find himself in the twists of a labyrinth from which he will be unable to escape, having no Ariadne's thread to lead him out. —Artephius

Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal