#literal

On reaching the place where the Indians had surprised us, we found the bodies of the three men whom they had killed and scalped, and literally cut into pieces. ↗

— Buffalo Bill

#cut #found #had #indians #into

I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on. ↗

— Josephine Baker

#humor #literal-meaning #nakedness #realtivity #funny

I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#finger #had #i #literally #pulse

The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple? ↗

— Eugene Kennedy

#enjoy #life #literally #moments #nothing

I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#dance #i #literally #most #numbers

A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words. ↗

— Marcus Mumford

#books #focusing #helpful #into #just

I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes. ↗

— Ruth Rendell

#i #into #literally #myself #put

'House of Style' changed my life. I literally had no experience in front of a TV camera before, and there I was taking over for Rebecca Romijn. My exposure heightened instantly. ↗

— Molly Sims

#camera #changed #experience #exposure #front

When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal. ↗

— J. J. Abrams

#both #combines #hypothetical #literal #real

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#covered #days #everything #fine #first