Literally Speaking Quotes

#1. Since that time, war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war.

George Orwell

#2. But one place ain't no different from no place else. People try and make it like everything's new only to find the devil done followed you wherever you moved and all you can do is hold him off whiles you catch your breath

Amina Gautier

#3. Men neglect the duties incumbent on man, yet are treated like demi-gods; religion is also separated from morality by a ceremonial veil, yet men wonder that the world is almost, literally speaking, a den of sharpers or oppressors.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#4. 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

#5. Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped talking, I mean literally I stopped speaking. I took a complete vow of silence.

John Francis

#6. There are receptors to these molecules in your immune system, in your gut and in your heart. So when you say, 'I have a gut feeling' or 'my heart is sad' or 'I am bursting with joy,' you're not speaking metaphorically. You're speaking literally.

Deepak Chopra

#7. Even a baby can write a poem. It doesn't guarantee the sale.

Bhavik Sarkhedi

#8. Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

Jean Cocteau

#9. All posthuman meant, literally speaking, was what you were when you weren't human anymore.

James S.A. Corey

#10. I noticed her noticing me.

Lovely Goyal

#11. The saga of semen stained sheets continues.

Kristy Berridge

#12. Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

Samuel P. Huntington

#13. 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

#14. Winston could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war ... war had literally been continuous, though strictly speaking it had not always been the same war. The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil.

George Orwell

#15. There are three great themes in science in the twentieth century : the atom, the computer, and the gene.

Harold E. Varmus

#16. In speaking of the Energy of the field, however, I wish to be understood literally. All energy is the same as mechanical energy, whether it exists in the form of motion or in that of elasticity, or in any other form. The energy in electromagnetic phenomena is mechanical energy.

James Clerk Maxwell

#17. Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.

Julian Barnes

#18. Its emotional character ... is probably mostly indescribable except as a sort of double bind in which any/all of the alternatives we associate with human agency - sitting or standing, doing or resting, speaking or keeping silent, living or dying - are not just unpleasant but literally horrible.

David Foster Wallace

#19. What is the authority in your life? Is it your selfishness? Your lust? Your greed? Or have you turned it all over to God and said, "Lord, You are going to be my authority"? When you are under authority, you are then able to assume authority.

Billy Graham

#20. Stop searching. Face the earth where you can. Literally speaking, it's all you have to go on.

Richard Ford

#21. What a pitiable thing it is that our civilization can do no better for us than to make us slaves to indoor life, so that we have to go and take artificial exercise in order to preserve our health.

George Wharton James

#22. Serving Leaders teach others the knowledge, skills, and strategies they need to succeed.

John Stahl-Wert

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

Ammon Shea

#24. I play piano and guitar. Acoustic guitar. I tried studying classical guitar when I was 16 but it got really hard. I could never play a lead to save my life.

Kip Winger