Famous Quotes & Sayings

Franz Kafka

Torment yourself as little as possible, then you'll torment me less.

Franz Kafka

All I am is literature, and I am not able or willing to be anything else.

Franz Kafka

Writers speak stench.

Some teachers are literally instructing under a tree, under a tent, at a nice new picnic table.

Lord Chesterfield

Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.

Josie Bissett

The 'Tickle Monster' story literally flew out of my mouth.

Toby Young

I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and we often talked about other people in psychological terms, so I picked up a lot of that.

These carts are literally sitting in the street, in your right-of-way.

These men literally are responsible for people's souls, so we take it very seriously if a priest indicates he can no longer function.

a spare but sharp setting for her unsettling, vividly literate lyrics.

Clive Sinclair

The word 'western' usually refers to movies, of course, but there is a literary tradition of the same name that pre-dates the moving picture and retains its vitality yet.

These are trying times for Andrea - literally and figuratively. She's tense. She's terrified.

These are 10- to 12-foot waves. They can literally pile-drive you into the bottom.

This year is also shaping up to be a very literate and literary Festival.

Kathleen Blanco

We've pulled literally hundreds of people out of the waters,

Jarome Iginla

We were literally one shot away, one second away from winning the Stanley Cup.

We got pounded. We literally got pounded. We never got anything established on the offensive end.

We don't usually think of them as literary giants.

Paul Thomson

We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.

In a very literal sense, the whole world's a stage for them.

Anita Diament

I'm not a literary writer. I didn't go to whatever school it is or have the mentor you need to get reviewed in the New York Times.

I'm literally an independent. Apolitical. So that I am not always going to be with the Left's perceived interests or the Right's perceived interests.

Darby Stanchfield

I'm like one of the tallest ones on 'Scandal.' If I'm wearing my four-inch Abby Whelan high heels, I hover over everybody. I literally have a lower pair of high heels that I wear when I do one of the scenes with the guys.

It's unbelievable. I have never experienced anything like this. I'm literally speechless.

The night of the show, our phones literally rang off the hook.

Tim Reid

There was an officer who was literally on the scene within a minute,

It really didn't show they were complying with what the literal terms of the ordinance were.

Phil Gordon

It's a litigation bonanza, and it will stop business.

Joanne Kelly

I'm a child of the literary bent. I don't want to see 140 characters. I want to see a story.

That's something that's sometimes missing from academia, that kind of an idea of an intellectual - someone who is literally in love with ideas.

Eighty-four swats. I literally got nauseous. She just lost control.

James O'Shaughnessy

If you have a 401(k) at work and you don't use it, it's like literally walking by buckets of money every day,

In the early 1980s, I spent a year working as an assistant at the Elaine Markson Literary Agency.