#literal

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn't exist. ↗

— Theophile Gautier

#exist #literally #made #maker #means

The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#learning #learning process #like #literally #process

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

The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie! ↗

— Peter Berg

#board #characters #dressing #each #ever

I was literally the black sheep of the family, and there were definitely moments of discomfort while my grandmother was working through her racism. ↗

— Lisa Bonet

#black sheep #definitely #discomfort #family #grandmother

When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months. ↗

— Vivica Fox

#actress #angeles #called #did #doing

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

Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy. ↗

— Peter Jurasik

#being #catholic #else #enough #everybody

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#competitions #designs #feature #green #increasingly