Literally Quotes

1298 Literally quotes by 1073 unique authors

A good teacher who can take the zero pay and help kids develop physically, emotionally, socially, is literally an angel. — Eva Amurri
New Orleans invented the brown paper bag party - usually at a gathering in a home - where anyone darker than the bag attached to… — Michael Eric Dyson
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each other for some… — Helen Fisher
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is… — Chris Hardwick
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination. — Brian K. Vaughan
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now. — Aaron Sorkin
Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machines and grocery store shelves with 30 brands of shampoo,… — Barbara Kingsolver
One must be drenched in words, literally soaked in them, to have the right ones form themselves into the proper pattern at the right moment. — Hart Crane
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them… — Nick Hornby
See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug… — Milton Friedman
Stick Boy liked Match Girl, He liked her a lot. He liked her cute figure, he thought she was hot. But could a flame ever… — Tim Burton
For [Jane Austen and the readers of Pride and Prejudice], as for Mr. Darcy, [Elizabeth Bennett's] solitary walks express the independence that literally takes the… — Rebecca Solnit
As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society… — Stephen King
In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is literally, the force of gravity. I am… — Thomas Pynchon
All colors made me happy: even gray. My eyes were such that literally they Took photographs. — Vladimir Nabokov
To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking… — Lisa Kleypas
In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true,… — Boyd K. Packer
...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary… — James McBride
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally. — Bill Maher
Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured… — Sheri L. Dew
Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each… — Obert Skye
The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that… — Roberto Bolano
Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil. — R. D. Laing
It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend. — Steve Lopez
We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life.… — William James

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