Literal Quotes

All maps are distorted, they are not literal fact.

The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning.

When it comes to literal nourishment, the food we eat, life begets life.

I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense.

Fanciful spiritualizing, so far from yielding God's meaning, actually obscured it. The literal sense is itself the spiritual sense, coming from God and leading to Him.

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

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

People take things too literal in the Bible and it's totally wrong.

Movies are too literal.

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.

I do not consider myself a literal genius.

Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.

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

Sci fi allowed us to be more true to the western than maybe even doing a literal western.