Literally Quotes

1298 Literally quotes by 1073 unique authors

Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein… — Michael Chabon
It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother… — John Cowper Powys
You will attract everything that you require. If it’s money you need you will attract it. If it’s people you need you’ll attract it. You’ve… — Rhonda Byrne
When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of… — Terence McKenna
The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams. — Terence McKenna
My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and… — Melina Marchetta
Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear,… — W. Somerset Maugham
The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here;… — Roland Barthes
It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something… — Daniel Handler
Figuratively, they escaped from Cout Olaf and their miserable existence. They did not literally escape, because they were still in his house and vulnerable to… — Daniel Handler
Let's get one thing clear right now, shall we? There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good story… — Stephen King
In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at… — Toni Morrison
The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us… — Theodore Roosevelt
Whatever our individual troubles and challenges may be, it’s important to pause every now and then to appreciate all that we have, on every level.… — Shakti Gawain
I woke up, a bag of bones. Literally. They had gathered up my bones and put them in a bag and thrown the bag into… — Derek Landy
I tell you, we would be hard put to determine what is more evil -- religion or the pure idea. The intervention of the supernatural… — Anne Rice
Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it.… — Thomas Merton
Perhaps in the back of our minds we already understand, without all the science I've discussed, that something terribly wrong is happening. Our sustenance now… — Jonathan Safran Foer
For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.… — George Orwell
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals… — Michael Pollan
Heart lesson #3: post-heartbreak survival. The heart is resilient, I mean literally. When a body is burned, the heart is the last organ to oxidize.… — Ibi Kaslik
Those of us who write and study history are accustomed to its approximations and ambiguities. This is why we do not take literally the tenth-hand… — Christopher Hitchens
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible,… — George Orwell
A man is literally what he thinks, his character being the complete sum of all his thoughts. — James Allen

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