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If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.

Thomas A. Edison

It is extremely brazen and it's a top-down fraud, ... It involved literally erasing expenses from the general ledger.

Jo White

We literally got outworked in every zone. It was a clear, simple, good ass kicking.

Derek Laxdal

It went to No. 1 from nowhere. Literally. It was like 17th.

Jake Demmin

Were literally falling apart because of drainage problems.

Ray Freeman

Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood. But everyone has something to give.

Barbara Bush

They're in there by the thousands. You could see them literally coming up along the banks. The ones we caught didn't even put a dent in them. We would throw one in the cooler, two others would jump out and we'd have to chase them through the woods.

Mark Hammond

They should have looked at how individual investors are literally being fleeced.

Al Rosen

Some people literally walked out their doors and saw flames in their trees.

Carrie Martin

It can save your life, not just keep you out of prison. It can literally save your life.

Bryan Nissen

Wildcat literally cashed in on the war on terror.

Johnny Griffin

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Greg's biggest challenge is slowing down. He's so eager to be there and do everything that I literally have to take him and slow him down. He'll do too much in one go.

Keith Bailey

We've started off with literally nothing, and now we have 60 students.

Chuck Morton

His birth parents literally gave him away at birth to another couple who, during his first year of life, physically and sexually abused him.

Thom Shuman

We never know where we're at week to week. Opponents are literally waiting to see who gets out of their cars at tournaments.

Bruce Cottrell

But I end up with these bands who have players from literally all over the world.

Joe Zawinul

It can be really hard to have a life as a pet sitter. You are literally holding that animal's life in your hands so you have to make a very strong commitment.

Lorraine Zdeb

No one who has ever brought up a child can doubt for a moment that love is literally the life-giving fluid of human existence.

Dr. Smiley Blanton

This year, the gifts literally took up almost an entire floor.

Lindy Crews

It's literally a physical challenge for him to sit still for a few minutes, just to sit on the floor and play with the boys. We're still so new at this.

Trisha Leseman

I think everything in South Florida is wonderful, except for I-95. It's so crowded with cars whizzing by you that you literally fear for your life.

Jay Shapiro

Literally, a few years ago you'd have to change your batteries every year to ensure they'd work in a disaster.

David Scott

We're quite worried. She's literally on minute-to-minute care.

Patti Savrick

If you procrastinate, it's going to cost you, literally.

Joanne Veto

He's literally the criminal law expert, the constitution law expert, he's the expert on search and seizure.

John Hagerty

We are putting the information customers need literally into their hands.

Jim Skinner

We literally outgrew the place.

Golf Brooks

That box of things that used to be contained inside of your PC now gets spread out literally on a global basis.

Mike Volpi

There are 25 people who are interested in Bulldog Pipes and Drums, but it's tough because our club is literally being born right now.

John Graham

Relapse is part of the disease of addiction. It's something that's going to literally slap them in the face when they walk out the doors.

Nicole Lockhart

They have literally stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word -- definitely not.

Kanwaljeet Anand

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.

James Cianciola

I can identify with the character really well. The girl loses her father, and I didn't literally lose my father, but figuratively I did.

Jennifer Barretta

I freaked out. I'm generally a calm, level-headed person who doesn't get too excited about much. But that day I literally floated.

Karen Neuburger

We've had literally less than a handful of people express some concern about going.

Jill White

The kids get very excited. They literally save all year for this.

Mary Kaufman

Peace is literally just around the corner.

Jeff Koinange

This is the most secure shoe you can wear. You can literally dance all night, and your foot isn't going to go anywhere.

Michelle Walters

In some cases, we've literally known each other all our lives.

Colleen Brown

He literally spent every waking hour walking around with those things in his hand, squeezing them. He was determined to improve.

Victor Penman

He literally was demon possessed with the bottle, ... In that regard, he's not like 'Nuke' LaLoosh.

Ron Shelton

When they talk about the Y camp being a family, well, for us that's true, both literally and figuratively.

Stephanie Adams

It was literally a miracle. There was no other ship in the area ... able to pick up the crew.

Harry Costello

They began recovery literally the next day.

Richard Burkert

In maternity we have the issue of literally having no waistline. The Empire waist is one cut where you can actually get some shape and definition on top.

Rebecca Matthias

Jim built this agency, and I mean that literally.

John Townsend

Here you have a unique situation where children are literally showing up at the doors of sex offenders.

Andrew J. Spano

It was all about the Nate and Brandon combination. Nate is the most aggressive player you'll ever see and Brandon saved the day, literally.

Jennifer Henderson

Jason and I literally go out the door with our amps and guitars and walk across the street. It's pretty cool.

Nathan Newbury

I wouldn't take the numbers literally, but they're clearly signaling an improvement.

Jim O'sullivan

Lately, I barely drink anything until about 10 minutes before we play. Then I literally drink as much as I can.

Craig Finn

History is literally drowning. Bourbon Street will always be there, but that's almost exclusively full of cover bands, and there are a ton of really classic old jazz places that aren't gonna come back.

Chris Lee

When that money came in, that was the end of it. She was literally put into a cell and she wasn't treated.

Bob Schindler

We are literally amazed at how smoothly the parade operated with such challenging conditions.

Bill Flinn

It's literally as big as when Star Wars came out.

Peter Mayhew

We literally have been getting more than 80,000 hits an hour on our Web site. This case has struck a real chord.

Susan Michaels

We believe there are literally billions of dollars available in the private market to greatly enhance our infrastructure, particularly in roads, that can be brought to bear.

Sean Walsh

Literally means Talk Dirty To Me. If you see that on your child's screen, they're talking to somebody they shouldn't be.

Al Kush

It was like we literally just wore them down. They had their hands on their hips, the tell-tale signs.

Todd Shirley

You get to really practice firsthand everything that you learn. And they literally kill you off if you make the wrong decision.

Merium Theiss

This is a substantial result in a business when we were literally nobodies four or five years ago.

Peter Wuffli

I was really devastated. I had planned on going to the hospital that day to visit my daughter, and we literally had no money. To think that I couldn't visit my daughter that day just devastated me.

George Lennox

It's glare ice. You could literally ski down on ice skates. Our kids didn't back down, but it is no different for anyone else.

Greg Mcclallen

They've literally flipped the weight. This has been such a shock to classroom teachers.

Paula Brown

The beads become, very literally, something they can hold onto.

Heather Fox

It's literally a lack of people. Baby boomers are getting older and retiring and people are having smaller families.

Shannon Martin

Sunny was literally a flower of a person.

Millicent Cummings

This will literally open our end of the county, and as you know, we're already growing but this will mean a real boost.

Gene Green

There are literally hundreds ... of legitimate public right of ways closed to public use.

Ron Moody

Now that canker's in the large citrus groves and can't be controlled, they would literally be wiping out the industry to continue the program.

Doug Lockwood

We literally were in contact with 2,000 comic shops.

John Taddeo

These stars literally are castaways. They have been thrown out of their home galaxy and set adrift in an ocean of intergalactic space.

Warren Brown

Literally, once we got there and saw the people involved, we decided to stay there for weeks.

Rachel Dretzin

You carry a very heavy burden, Prime Minister. You carry the hopes and dreams of every Japanese alive today and those of our honored ancestors. You literally carry Japan upon your back.

Atsuko Abe

We literally haven't made up our minds about what our next hybrid will be.

John German

We saw literally no response from faculty, which was disheartening.

Ryan Rourke

We know from talking to [our customers] that nutrition information is key, and now it will be on our packaging as we literally put it right into our customers' hands.

Jim Skinner

The buck stops there — literally.

Glenn Smith

And there's literally hundreds, if not thousands, of new homes being planted along this corridor.

Mike Heiligenstein

You can literally do anything from any room in the house or any location in the world.

David Goldman

There's no humane way of bile extraction, and there never will be. These bears are literally at death's door when they arrive with us.

Jill Robinson

People literally are dying on the transplant list who could be cured with this.

Brian Mason

She was funny, and the best thing about her is that she was a nice person. Literally, I have never heard anyone say a bad thing about her, nor have I heard her say anything bad about somebody else.

Rachel Tanaka

I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.

Henri Matisse

My personal philosophy is that we don't discriminate, ... We put it in writing because it became an issue. Literally, nothing has changed.

Carl Brizzi

We do have content through Burger King that the customers are able to view if they want to. Burger King has been the first and only available literally almost for two weeks.

Mark Elliot

Then they literally ran with me to the pre-op and then on to surgery.

Patricia Long

If you did shop, often the transaction was literally interrupted because of lost connections.

Robert Garf

We literally feared she wouldn't be alive the next day.

Julie Hansen

I got into the race and people literally laughed, ... They thought I had no chance of winning.

Patrick Mchenry

Considering that it literally came from emptying out piggybanks, I was bowled over by the generosity.

Rhonda Honegger

We were literally on his doorstep when he arrived.

Ann Heavner

The pain is unspeakable. I literally feel as if my heart has been torn out, ... But being sad and having the pain and crying are gifts from God, to express the depths of who we are and what we feel.

Jill Kelly

History is literally drowning.

Chris Lee

The smiles on the kids' faces, to have literally thousands of people cheering for them, it's just really exciting. It's just a great thing.

Doug Fluetsch

I don't think we expected, any of us, the literally hundreds of thousands of people that would show up.

Michael Reagan

This project literally affects every user in the city.

Lance Houser

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

Lynne Roberts

We've never seen anything like it. It literally covered one end of the shopping center to the other and in some instances, 10 inches deep.

Scott Creel

I would be walking down the hall at work and I would literally drop to my knees in pain.

Toni Smith

They were overwhelmed, ... They'd treated literally hundreds of people.

Thomas Cromwell

The ruling was much harsher than I anticipated, as it puts the company literally on the brink.

Nitsan Hargil

That broadcast is the most astounding thing you'll ever hear. I decided to make the movie literally the second that hour was over.

Jeff Feuerzeig

The thing that is going to be fun for high school coaches and fans is that we will literally be able to see one of our homegrown quarterbacks on TV every Saturday.

Todd Dodge

I literally went--well, I won't use the language. I really was upset. It's out of control.

Mary Schuh

There are unique challenges to do a security operation with another country literally in view.

Marc Raimondi

We have communities where the entire community is under water, literally to the eaves of buildings.

Christine Todd Whitman

Since the case began, the Aurora Police Department has spent every possible resource on this investigation. We have literally spent hundreds of a hours on this case.

Dan Ferrelli

There were times when it was quite chaotic. It was very busy with a lot of luggage around. Sometimes it was literally a fight to get a boarding pass.

Dennis Burke

Our guys literally, as they were leaving, gave those guys a crash course in how to care for penguins and otters, and they did.

Melissa Lee

There literally was nothing out there as far as a break or a structure for her to come back and operate a business. She had to go it alone.

Matt Mechtel

There are literally thousands of hectares of fire there and it's going to take us about four days to get around to all these fires and mop them up.

Phil Koperberg

There is literally a 75 page rule book that covers just 'basic' game play.

Daniel Howell

We've had a great year. These guys have won 27-games and we were literally a couple of bounces away from going 30-0. ... We led the league from start to finish.

Jerry Carrillo

Literally, this has no effect on the mutual-fund business.

Roy Weitz

I was working literally in the streets of the neighborhoods and I saw what people were up against.

Matt Brown

And then he said, 'I think I can make that happen on my own,' and he did. He literally commanded his finger to move, and it did.

Dana Reeve

We have but the one drug section for the province of Manitoba, and there literally could be a grow op every five miles.

John Fleming

We are monitoring the situation literally day by day, ... We will review the funding in the light of this work.

Patricia Hewitt

I am told that I literally represent garbage and I bring garbage into the community and I'm undermining the community.

Marti Forman

We were literally side by side for stretches of five to 10 minutes. We were almost touching hulls, it was that close.

Byron Ho

We had all the funds and everything agreed, and then someone came in and bought it for $12 million and literally did it overnight.

Jonathan Jackson

They literally do not know what they are taking.

Michael Rich

It literally took us two seconds to realize our school was California.

Renee Wright

We never thought that he literally had God speaking to him.

Nabil Shaath

People can go, literally, from Manor to downtown Austin without stopping.

Mike Heiligenstein

In my opinion, it was probably the worst case of legislation and bad acting I've seen in 20 years. It was lawmakers literally disregarding the legislation before them. I'm extremely disappointed.

Lance Ness

He who fears is literally delivered to destruction.

Howard Thurman

Hurricane Charley was the most memorable story I had to cover. It was an emotional attachment since it was literally happening in my backyard and very difficult for us to cover. No election, no accident, nothing can compare to that story and since then, every story has been flat.

Jim Mclaughlin

There are very simple ways to do this. You can literally use your hand and on a cold day, feel the cold air rushing in where you have gaps or leaks.

Dan Reicher

She (Virginia Kelley) describes the chaos ... She describes an incident in which Bill's grandmother and she literally were pulling him apart.

Lucinda Franks

The debate is now whether we should try to figure out what the framers meant, or interpret (the Bill of Rights) through constantly evolving attitudes. The First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech. But if that is taken literally, then you could not bring cases for things like defamation or espionage.

Douglas Linder

It was a great time. All the stars lined up -- literally and figuratively. I can't imagine there would be a bigger case -- but, boy, it sure would be nice.

Chad Moore

Two people could have been dead, ... These detectives deserve a lot of credit. You say the wrong thing, you could put someone, literally in this case, over the edge.

William Conlon

There is no other area in the country that needs our industry's help like the Mississippi Gulf Coast. It's literally devastated.

Bruce Beckham

Sonny was the dad to literally 400 kids. He came to the club two or three times a week, helped with homework, etcetera.

Gregory Wims

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

Tim Reid

He is literally tiptoeing around this issue as he travels around Missouri.

Jack Cardetti

This is literally my favorite role. The role of Sheila is like nothing else. There's no holds barred with her.

Callie Thorne

It was literally dead even. There was a lot of action and end-to-end play. We played a solid game but just couldn't finish. And Humberside played well and couldn't finish.

Steve Wood

There are some people who get literally sick after 15 minutes.

Scott Robinson

Literally, it was just less than a mile from my house. I have driven by these places for 20 years and never knew. It opens your eyes and energizes you to do something to help out.

Barry Williams

Families have literally put their lives on hold.

Tish Dietrich

Every agency is going to tell you they are doing important things. But if we close our doors, literally hundreds and hundreds of people in Metropolitan Detroit will go blind. That's the impact we have on our community. People depend on us to save their eyesight.

Bernard Miller

Several businesses are totally destroyed. Trees literally are sitting inside of houses.

John Oxendine

It's literally the end of an era.

Rich Carnevale

We literally taste every homemade product on our line every day. It takes two hours.

Pam Murphy

This isn't Bubble Bobble as fans of the series are used to. This is an entirely new game, and with these puzzle elements included, it is literally an evolution of the original game design concept.

Tony Byus

When ABC called me, I was literally shocked.

Brendan Harris

Given the hole we were in literally and figuratively after Sept. 11, this is clearly a plus.

Lawrence White

We didn't sleep last week -- we literally didn't sleep -- because we've been so busy with the book.

Hansie Cronje

Because he was obedient and said, 'Yes,' God took him out of that dairy barn and literally took him around the world.

Franklin Graham

Listed literally dozens of things (the administration) did wrong. He acknowledged more institutional failings at the White House and elsewhere than we expected.

David Marin

I was actually washing the dishes when she called and I literally dropped the dishes in the sink.

Michelle Beasley

We just went cold in the second half. And the rebounding was really huge. It was literally one and done for us.

Sharon Dawley

84 swats. I literally got nauseous. She just lost control.

Chad Burns

They have no idea when, if ever, justice will come to them. The level of hopelessness in the camp has reached a point where our clients are literally vowing they have no other choice but to die.

Julia Tarver

We were ready from literally the time the storm blew through. We were ready to go. We just were not given permission to go in.

Marty Evans

They come hand in hand. If you are a smoker, drinking and smoking more or less go literally hand in hand.

Anthony Clark

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

Ruth Rendell

Sometimes you have to literally step over people meeting in the entrance hallway.

Steve Mohyla

Sometimes all it takes to change a life is to decide which beliefs do not serve you and to literally change your mind about those beliefs.

Joy Page

My husband and I were looking for a place to stay so literally everything we came down here with is in there.

D'anne Gray

"So you've been over into Russia?" said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, "I have been over into the future and it works.

Lincoln Steffens

When I had alcoholic blackouts, I literally could not remember what I did the preceding night.

Jim Ramstad

It went through the building like wildfire. Like a hurricane, literally.

Deanna Hindenach

Curtis Young is one of those guys who can literally play every position on the field. We are going to put him where we need him most.

Richy Brooks

Literally days before we were due to start, the war started up again.

Paul Stromberg

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Calvin Trillin

We are literally an island in a sea of prairie dogs.

Jan Ngeden

I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules.

Charlotte Whitton

Literally circled the globe with bureaus, from Baghdad to Johannesburg to Havana to Sydney to Hong Kong.

Jim Walton

We were literally tearing our hair out at times trying to find this animal.

Mick Clout

They're very concerned that the freeway is backed up from Harris County [Houston] to Dallas County. There are literally thousands of people who are trying to escape what could be hurricane-force winds.

Don Peritz

It was all determination. As the old saying goes, ?Where there?s a will, there?s a way,? and as you saw, we had the will, literally.

Jason Fraser

It's literally across the campus.

Andrew Wesselman

It could be literally thousands. It could be a number I don't want to know. It could be scary.

Skip Snow

When you're racing, you hang on for dear life. Everything is shaking, and on the turns your head is literally hanging outside of the car.

Stephen Page

You can literally stand here some times and watch little bugs crawl through crawl in and crawl out.

Heath Moore

Many of those containers are literally buried.

Peter Friedmann

Some of these cases are really sad. There are people who have literally lost their life savings.

Barry Goldsmith

This is a position that is critical to the city of Merced and the citizens. They have 100 employees that are literally engaged with life-and-death decisions.

Mike Conway

Just to float in the air is such a great experience. I'm still literally on cloud nine about it.

Greg Olsen

He literally does not have an enemy in the world, unless it's some of the criminals he's prosecuted.

Charles J. Cooper

Various people on campus, literally people from every class, said congratulations.

Mary Conroy

Administrators for those grants can literally come here and see where the needs are and apply funds to things we need immediately.

Lindsay Roberts

We'd like to literally compare some notes if we can with the census.

Hank Pluster

You're literally inviting a sick, germy person to blow her nose at your desk.

Allison Janse

The impact was literally zero after all. I don't see a big impact despite all that nervousness leading to the announcement.

Marcelo Guterman

Quite literally, we don't want our first African-American president and coach to be our last.

Courtney Williams

It was collected in this quarry that literally had hundreds of skeletons in it.

Mark Norell

There were times about five years ago when I literally couldn't get out of bed. I was living in pain.

Barry Gibb

We passed town after town after town that looked like it had been literally flattened by an atomic bomb.

Mike Chinoy

For Dawn and her family, this has been a disaster. They literally have nothing. Please pray with us about this.

Dave Lambert

It has literally turned your house into an A.T.M. in the last couple of years. That will virtually go away.

Carl Steidtmann

They were literally the worst team in the state. Now we have a chance to be the best team in the state.

Brendan Flaherty

The camera literally just crawls over every surface. It moves in and out of being abstract and concrete. It becomes this intense investigation of this one artwork.

Matt Distel

Maggie literally saved my life that semester.

Sumi Mccabe

If you want to be fit, there's no magic. There's no mystery. You have to get up and work your ass off - literally.

Susan Powter