Top 33 Figuratively Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Figuratively Quotes from famous people such as Josie Maran, Alicia Garza, Rishi Kapoor, Penny Mordaunt, Gene Tunney, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

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Luckily, my husband is my business partner as well as my life partner, so I never had to do the heavy lifting alone, literally or figuratively.
Josie Maran
Saying ‘black lives matter’ both literally and figuratively restores people’s dignity.
Alicia Garza
I don’t want to play father roles. And I use father roles figuratively for roles that are just hanging around… don’t want to be a piece of furniture in films.
Rishi Kapoor
Get things right for disabled people and you get it right for all, for the whole of society. Not just figuratively, but in reality.
Penny Mordaunt
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
What I do miss that I don’t get anymore? You’re going to think I’m crazy, but you want the truth, so here it is. The lights! I miss the spotlights. I don’t mean it figuratively. I mean it literally. I love the feeling of lights.
Barbara Mandrell
When I opened my solo practice, I made it a priority to put my patients’ experience first and foremost. This involves making them feel comfortable, both literally and figuratively.
Jennifer Ashton
It is possible to take the story of Noah figuratively, although virtually every Near East ancient civilization has its own version of the flood story (including the amoral epic of Gilgamesh).
Ben Shapiro
A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.
Susan Orlean
Energy powers our economy, both literally and figuratively.
Robert Zubrin
Jay-Z is a hero, Sam Walton is a hero – these are not exactly communitarian champions. These are – in some cases, literally; in others, just figuratively – gangster heroes. That’s who is worshipped: people who get away with it.
George Packer
My political career began on the other side of the fence from the liberal filmmaker Michael Moore – both literally and figuratively. As a young intern for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, I was tasked with attending a Moore rally four days before the general election.
Kayleigh McEnany
What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter’s pellucid first novel, ‘The Apartment,’ it may be simply the length of a day – but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.
Stacey D’Erasmo
I am not comparing myself to great artists, but when you see conceptual artists at work, on some level it’s reassuring to know they can paint figuratively. Likewise, when you listen to the ’50s jazz people who do these vast solos, you buy into it more if they open by playing a tune.
Stewart Lee
I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.
Harry S Truman
I am a distance runner, a marathoner… literally and figuratively.
Al Jarreau
Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course.
John Gielgud
In ‘A Scandalous Woman,’ the eventually distraught narrator watches as her high-spirited friend is beaten down – literally and figuratively – by Ireland’s pious customs.
Alan Cheuse
Not only am I literally and figuratively the dark horse, I’m actually the poor horse. The only thing that I have going for me is my soul and my commitment to the American people.
Shirley Chisholm
Anybody who’s serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.
Leeza Gibbons
I love the wry motto of the Paleontological Society, meant both literally and figuratively, for hammers are the main tool of our trade: Frango ut patefaciam – I break in order to reveal.
Stephen Jay Gould
I work for Fox News as a commentator. I say whatever I want. I’m the blonde on the left, figuratively and literally – the one who’s usually smiling because it’s T.V., not the Supreme Court or Congress, and I find civility more effective in any event.
Susan Estrich
I thought psychologists were people who rob, figuratively of course, money from the insecure. But they are not. They are people who are there to help you, and if you find a good psychologist, they will allow you to talk about everything and open up, without the slightest of fears, and that is no easy thing.
Gianluigi Buffon
When it rains, it pours – figuratively and literally.
John Cornyn
As her life became more unhappy, acting attracted Marie-Antoinette because it fulfilled unmet emotional needs. By all accounts, she was quite good in her little private theatricals. But her desire to be a heroine, both literally and figuratively, was shocking to the French.
Amanda Foreman
Growing up South African, I was comparatively in a world of privilege, especially being the youngest and being figuratively wrapped up in cotton wool by the rest of the family.
Jodi Balfour
I knew that I had to find my own voice, both figuratively and literally.
David Sylvian
Don’t try to walk in someone else’s shoes – literally and figuratively. Wear what you feel confident in.
Kunal Khemu
Unlike the on-air talents in the NFL where they have producers figuratively joined at their hip, providing them with info and tidbits of data, we WWE announcers are responsible for getting ourselves ready for every broadcast.
Jim Ross
One of my best friends, Stephen Sprouse, Bill Dugan, and I worked designing clothes, doing every conceivable thing. New York was a really intoxicating period for me, literally and figuratively. There was a lot of overlap with Andy Warhol, Studio 54, and Halston.
Dennis Christopher
My success, literally, is your success figuratively.
Bo Burnham
When kids look at broccoli, they call it 'little trees,

When kids look at broccoli, they call it ‘little trees,’ because they see it not just for the word ‘broccoli.’ They see it for what it looks like, the image. We, as adults, forget to think like that. We forget to think figuratively and have to be reminded.
Natasha Trethewey
Kickstarter can get customers invested, both literally and figuratively, in a game before it is released. With nothing but an idea, a bit of video and a few screenshots, a developer can start building a loyal fan base.
Jason Schreier