Literally

Famous quotes containing the word literally:

“The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean- tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb, for we have no word to speak about it.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)

“No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)

“The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist.”
—Théophile Gautier (1811–1872)