#literal

The name 'Charmageddon' actually comes from a social technique that I use. Which is, you know, literally obliterating people with charm so that you can get away with saying stuff that no one else could ever get away with, you know? ↗

— Hal Sparks

#away #charm #comes #could #else

Rabid fans were literally jumping into the camera. ↗

— Penelope Spheeris

#fans #into #jumping #literally #rabid

All these portrayals we see of knights fighting must be absolute rubbish because knights in armour could literally have only had two or three blows and then they'd have had to sit down to have a cup of tea. ↗

— Mark Strong

#armour #because #blows #could #cup

One of the reasons I love to jump back and forth between mediums is that film does allow me to be more literal. I can go to the real place. I can go to the Coliseum, and I don't have to fake it. ↗

— Julie Taymor

#back #between #does #fake #film

I literally integrated the small town of Libertyville, Illinois. I was the first person of color to reside within its borders. ↗

— Tom Morello

#color #first #i #illinois #integrated

Varese, Apollinaire, Ezra Pound, Leger, Gleizes, Severini, Villon, Duchamp, Duchamp-Villon, Marie Laurencin, Cocteau and many others were to me household names in the literal sense - names of familiar figures around the house. ↗

— Jacques Barzun

#duchamp #familiar #figures #house #household

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

For, quite literally, the whole world today is looking for us to take the lead in carrying out those obligations imposed on the American people as a whole by the beautiful, compassionate and courageous principle of noblesse oblige. ↗

— Robert Welch

#american people #beautiful #carrying #compassionate #courageous

If I take the theory as we have it now, literally, I would conclude that extra dimensions really exist. They're part of nature. We don't really know how big they are yet, but we hope to explore that in various ways. ↗

— Edward Witten

#conclude #dimensions #exist #explore #extra

People take songs so literally. ↗

— Richard Marx

#people #songs #take