#figuratively

Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course. ↗

— John Gielgud

#course #doubt #english #figuratively #gentlemen

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively. ↗

— Leeza Gibbons

#anybody #doors #face #figuratively #gets

I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam - I break in order to reveal. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#break #figuratively #hammers #i #i love

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#country #crow #desire #eat #eating

In youth, we get plenty of exercise through games and running around, but as middle life approaches, we settle down, literally and figuratively. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#around #down #exercise #figuratively #games

I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally. ↗

— David Sylvian

#figuratively #find #had #i #knew

When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally. ↗

— John Cornyn

#literally #pours #rains