Literalness Quotes

When I makes tea I makes tea, as old mother Grogan said. And when I makes water I makes water.

What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.

Something I've always known about the screen is that if it's anything in the world, it's literal. It's so literal that there's a whole lot you can't do because you're stuck with the literalness of the screen. The stage is not literal.

A horse is simply a horse.

Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

You've got to get as literal as you can get to convince people sometimes that you can do something.

If there is one thing I think I have accomplished, it's that I always thought of myself as a very literal songwriter, and as I look at some of those older records, I don't hear it now the way I did when I was 20. I think it is undeniable that the songs have become more instantaneously descriptive and literal. I'd like the songs to be more storytelling, but also have the turns of phrase within them that would hopefully distance my writing from the pack. I feel like on those older records there are a lot of attempts at clever turns of phrase.

Bob Dole is not a romantic, at least not an immediate one. Bob Dole is not one to waste a lot of time on metaphor.

What you see is what you see.

I made an airplane out of stone. . . I always did like staying home.

Its a perfectly good face, Sparhawk." "It covers the front of my head. What else can you expect from a face?

I keep trying to understand the phenomenon of why adults are so literal when children are so imaginative. Toys are a caricature of reality.

My life is an open book. With illustrations.