Die Quote by Teju Cole Download Open image “Swear you'd rather die than use 'literally' as an intensifier.” — Teju Cole ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Die Literally Rather Swear Than Use You
I'm not actually perishing, but I do feel like I die a little every time someone uses 'literally' to mean 'really.' — Faith Salie Copy Share Image
“Among people who might be described as having at least a passing regard for the English language, there are few instances of usage that… — Ammon Shea Copy Share Image
There are clear cases in which understanding literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Every word wants to be taken literally, else it decays into a lie. But one mustn't take any word literally, else the world becomes… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Note-taking is important to me: a week's worth of reading notes (or "thoughts I had in the shower" notes) is cumulatively more interesting than… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Because I'm an art historian, I have some experience of writing that comes out of close attention. That's what really art history is. You're… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Most of the people around me yesterday were middle-aged or old. I am used to it, but it never ceases to surprise me how… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The mind roams more widely in the dark than it does in light. It is no surprise, then, stepping out of the unlit house… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“Each person must, on some level, take himself as the calibration point for normalcy, must assume that the room of his own mind is… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three. — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“The site was a palimpsest, as was all the city, written, erased, rewritten...Generations rushed through the eye of the needle, and I, one of… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
“As I contemplated the silent world before me, I thought of the many romantic ideas attached to blindness. Ideas of unusual sensitivity and genius… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
We never think that our mothers will die. It was like suddenly an abyss opened at my feet - I was standing on nothing.… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I can't leave the house without earrings. I think I'd rather die. I think I'd rather die than leave the house without a pair… — CMAT Copy Share Image
I turned to my mom and said, 'I'm going to be a martial arts movie star.' She didn't believe me, and neither did my… — Scott Adkins Copy Share Image
'Misery' left a lasting mark on me. When I die, it will be 'Kathy 'Misery' Bates Is Dead.' — Kathy Bates Copy Share Image
It turns out that the God whose word will stand forever does not exist to insure our fantasies that we will not have to… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
“There's such an intimate kind of beauty in the act of listening to music being created right in front of your eyes, watching the… — M.C. Frank Copy Share Image
What's going to happen when I die? I may be buried, or I may be cremated, I may give my body to science. I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“It’s better to die for what’s right than live for what’s wrong.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I remember the early 1980s, when I first got one of these fabulous film critic jobs. The downside was sitting through 'Splatteria III: The… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
