#literally

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

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#came #career #created #disco #during

I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft. ↗

— Sam Waterston

#becoming #cab #cab driver #did #driver

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

Literally overnight, I became an animator... and one that was well-known. ↗

— Terry Gilliam

#became #i #literally #overnight #well-known

People take songs so literally. ↗

— Richard Marx

#people #songs #take

Only the most unapologetic biblical fundamentalists, for instance, take every biblical injunction literally. If we all took all scripture at the same level of authority, then we would be more open to slavery, to the subjugation of women, to wider use of stoning. Jesus himself spoke out frequently against divorce in the strongest of terms. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#authority #divorce #every #frequently #fundamentalists

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives. ↗

— Tony Robbins

#any #awesome #beings #beliefs #create

The optimum frequency with which comedians should do a series is every year. I do one every three years. My audience is literally dying off. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#comedians #dying #every #frequency #i

What passes for investigative journalism is finding somebody with their pants down - literally or otherwise. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#finding #investigative #journalism #literally #otherwise