“ Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery. ”
- A. S. W. Rosenbach- Copy
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“ We term sleep a death by which we may be literally said to die daily; in fine, so like death, I dare not trust it without my prayers. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
- 2.6K
“ If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I went from starring in a Paramount movie to unemployment for two years. Literally, I couldn't get a job for almost two years. ”
- David Caruso- Copy
- 1.8K
“ From the German verb tinzelle-literally, to book a turkey into 1,200 theaters and make one's money before word of mouth hits. ”
- Charlie Haas- Copy
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“ There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do. ”
- Soichiro Honda- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision. ”
- Thomas Samuel Kuhn- Copy
- 2.9K
“ As you combine commitment, awareness, inhibition, and appropriately positive visualization, you are awakening and literally re-creating your own brain. ”
- Michael Gelb and Tony Buzan- Copy
- 1.6K
“ To be authentic is literally to be your own author, to discover your own native energies and desires, and then to find your own way of acting on them. ”
- Warren G. Bennis- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I always knew that fury was my natural enemy. It clotted my blood and clogged my pores. It literally blinded me. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
- 3.5K
“ To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards. ”
- E. Kim Nebeuts- Copy
- 910
“ Charity literally means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 1.6K
“ For the first time in the history of mankind, one generation literally has the power to destroy the past, the present and the future, the power to bring time to an end. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
- 3.1K
“ I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules. ”
- Glenn Close- Copy
- 2.5K
“ If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
- 522
“ It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
- 1.2K
“ No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented, except literally to get out of hell. ”
- Antonin Artaud- Copy
- 898
“ No statement about God is simply, literally true. God is far more than can be measured, described, defined in ordinary language, or pinned down to any particular happening. ”
- David Jenkins- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man. ”
- Anita Brookner- Copy
- 768
“ Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood … but everyone has something to give. ”
- Barbara Bush- Copy
- 760
“ Somebody said to me, "But the Beatles were anti-materialistic." That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, "Now, let's write a swimming pool.". ”
- Paul McCartney- Copy
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“ The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man. ”
- Napoleon Hill- Copy
- 965
“ I see a time when Smartware would literally manage your money for you. Decide which investments are the most lucrative, which property would be the best buy based on value. If you're income isn't high enough, it could find you a new job. If your wife is spending too much money, the system would be programmed to discipline her, through a series of, say, spankings or what have you. ”
- Bill Gates- Copy
- 3.5K
“ The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences. ”
- Eugene Kennedy- Copy
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“ 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. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition. ”
- William James- Copy
- 141
“ When a friend, then, indulges in the joy of unburdening a secret on to another friend's bosom, he makes the latter, in his turn, feel the urge to taste the same joy himself. He implores him, it is true, not to tell a soul; but if such a condition were taken absolutely literally, it would at once cut off the flow of these joys at their very source… ”
- Alessandro Manzoni- Copy
- 633
“ When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without. ”
- Ansel Adams- Copy
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