Figuratively Speaking Quotes

#1. Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#2. Once I have fairly seized you, to have and to hold, I'll just -figuratively speaking - attach you to a chain like this' (touching his watchguard). 'Yes, bonny wee thing, I'll wear you in my bosom, lest my jewel I should tyne.

Charlotte Bronte

#3. It was like being asleep when you were awake and awake when you were asleep. I'd pinch myself, figuratively speaking - I had to keep pinching myself. Then I'd wake up kind of in reverse; I'd go back to the nightmare I had to live in. And everything would be clear and reasonable.

Jim Thompson

#4. There is an aspect of my character that tends to latch on to one difficult but potentially solvable problem, rather than grapple with the vast and unsolvable problem that would be all I could see, if I were to look up, figuratively speaking, from my small blue notebooks.

Ben H. Winters

#5. RIGHT, he said, PESTILENCE, OPEN ANOTHER PACK OF CARDS. I'M GOING TO GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS IF IT KILLS ME, FIGURATIVELY SPEAKING OF COURSE. Rincewind grabbed Twoflower and pulled

Terry Pratchett

#6. You're looking...good enough to eat. Figuratively speaking, I'm strictly vegan.

Marv Wolfman

#7. I fall in love. More figuratively speaking, I am walking along the road one day when out of nowhere I am struck by lightning.

Ali Smith

#8. Dude! Get a fucking grip, it's just a song!
When had I turned into a 5-yr-old girl? At the very least, I needed to get my libido under control before the song finished, because I didn't think that my raging hard-on would be a good icebreaker. Well, figuratively speaking anyway, I thought smugly.

M.C. Lavocat

#9. Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

Joseph Pilates

#10. Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection.

Fukuzawa Yukichi

#11. Since loans are getting more expensive and there's less money available, we're seeing a commensurate decline in growth. Higher costs and lower growth, in turn, translate into lower profits. Figuratively speaking, in the future, we won't be able to run as far or jump as high as we used to.

Paul Achleitner

#12. and create many more choices for ourselves. Without conscious attention, we are simply dancing around in the cage of our habitual patterns, thinking we are free

Anonymous

#13. No one is yet using figuratively to mean literally; the confusion, such as it is, is all in one direction.

Ammon Shea

#14. People are going to be seeing me a lot everywhere: TVs, music, movies, festivals. You name it, I'm gonna be there.

AraabMuzik

#15. I won't deny a song or a melody. I can't deny it.

Fred Durst

#16. I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

Princess Margaret

#17. Always remember that we are here to be kind, loving, and forgiving. We are here to enjoy the abundant ecstasy of life.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.

Andy Weir

#19. I love research. I'd go so far as to say I'm a research fanatic.

Lisa See

#20. We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'

Nicholas Negroponte

#21. How smartly September comes in, like a racing gig, all style, no confusion.

Eleanor Clark

#22. No. See, when you throw up you're vomiting, but when you throw down you're starting a fight, as in throwing down the gauntlet."
"Ohhhh," he said. "I thought you were speaking literally."
"I do beg your pardon. Let's literally throw up, but figuratively throw down.

Kevin Hearne

#23. We weren't trying, but we were definitely practicing - and not safely practicing.

Jessica Simpson

#24. Speaking figuratively, the study of theology often produces overgrown youths whose internal organs have not correspondingly developed. This is a characteristic of adolescence. There is actually something like theological puberty.

Helmut Thielicke

#25. Let's face it: Engineering companies in general have more men than women. Google has tried really hard to recruit women. On the other hand, we have a standard. Google tries to recruit the best engineers.

Susan Wojcicki

#26. Love isn't about living in fear. It's not about controlling the hearts of those around you. It is patient and kind. It endures and believes the very best. It never gives up.

Tracie Peterson

#27. Speaking figuratively, they were soon chronic alcoholics, men who lived by violence, through extreme action and sensation, through drowning daily in a perpetual nervous agitation. From

Richard Wright