Literally Quotes
1298 quotes by 1073 authors
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We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I've only done one shoot where it's modeling clothes, not like me in my environment. And the stylist, literally, I had her stand behind the…
— Elizabeth Olsen
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A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
— Susan Orlean
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What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like…
— Mehmet Oz
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My mother, who grew up in Pennsylvania, literally washed my mouth out with soap once for saying, 'Shut up!' to my sister. She would have…
— John Piper
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All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him…
— John Podhoretz
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On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work…
— Jackson Pollock
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I live in, literally, the same home when I was swiping my first bank card and wondering if I'd have to put back the Charmin.…
— Rachael Ray
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I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes.
— Ruth Rendell
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There's a very real possibility in this industry of going out and leading your life and then going home and being a voyeur of your…
— Ryan Reynolds
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For years, I hated myself. I covered the mirrors in my house. I literally couldn't have a mirror in my room.
— Christina Ricci
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Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and…
— Tony Robbins
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During my seven-year contract with RKO, there were seven different studio presidents, from David O. Selznick to Charles W. Koerner. You literally had to check…
— Ginger Rogers
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No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn't sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours' writing. Nothing.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I do think there was a period there when my sanity was under intense pressure, and I didn't know what to say or do or…
— Salman Rushdie
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What I'm concerned about is endless borrowing, which is going to compromise our economy not only today but in the future. Because we know the…
— Paul Ryan
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As I went through 'This Progress,' one of two performance pieces by Tino Sehgal that transform Frank Lloyd Wright's emptied-out spiral into a dreamy Socratic-purgatorial…
— Jerry Saltz
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In our usual mind state, we are continually activating the process that in Buddhist terminology is known as 'bhava,' which literally means 'becoming.' In this…
— Sharon Salzberg
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I'm a lifelong movie addict, and one of my favorite projects is making replica props and costumes. Nearly every one of these - from R2D2…
— Adam Savage
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'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a…
— Michael Sheen
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