Top Literal Quotes
Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.
Julie Taymor
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
Mitch Hedberg
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
Joseph Bologna
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Not only is the self entwined in society; it owes society its existence in the most literal sense.
Theodor Adorno 
79% of people like this quote
The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
Karl Marx
61% of people like this quote
One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it.
Julie Taymor
57% of people like this quote
I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.
Mitch Hedberg
56% of people like this quote
The stage is suspension of disbelief. Film is a literal medium.
Joseph Bologna
56% of people like this quote
This was nostalgia in the literal Greek sense: the pain of not being able to return to one's home and family.
John Thorn
55% of people like this quote
I have a need to make these sorts of connections literal sometimes, and a vehicle often helps to do that. I have a relationship to car culture. It isn't really about loving cars. It's sort of about needing them.
Matthew Barney
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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
55% of people like this quote
It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before.
Douglas Trumbull
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Language operates between literal and metaphorical signification.
Robert Smithson
52% of people like this quote