Emphasis Quotes - Page 22

• We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Energy

  "Find Out Who You Are and Live That Truth". Interview with Katie Couric, www.glamour.com. February 1, 2010.

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• There are many important books on oral history. My book was the launch title in the Understanding Qualitative Research series with Oxford University Press. I think what makes my book and all of the series books unique is the emphasis on writing instruction for researchers who want to use the method being described.

  Patricia Leavy

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• The Irish are the damnedest race. They put so much emphasis on so many wrong things.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Race, Wrong Things

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.374, Hamilton Books

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• Since the days of Greece and Rome the word 'citizen' was a title of honor. We have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.

  Robert Kennedy

  Responsibility, Rights, Rome

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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• - No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Lips, Enough, Darling

  Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Married by Morning”, p.31, Macmillan

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• What else can I tell you? It seems to me that everything has its proper emphasis; and finally I want to add just one more bit of advice: to keep growing, silently and earnestly, through your whole development; you couldn't disturb it any more violently than by looking outside and waiting for outside answers to questions that only your innermost feeling, in your quietest hour, can perhaps answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Waiting, Advice, Feelings

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• I had never seen so many cute men in one place in my life. But I could tell they were not for me. Russell was like the gay vampire Hugh Hefner, and this was the Playboy Mansion, with an emphasis on the "boy.

  Charlaine Harris

  Cute, Gay, Boys

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Club Dead: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.110, Penguin

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• In dialogue, make sure that your attributives do not awkwardly interrupt a spoken sentence. Place them where the breath would come naturally in speech-that is, where the speaker would pause for emphasis, or take a breath. The best test for locating an attributive is to speak the sentence aloud.

  E. B. White

  Writing, Speech, Tests

  William Strunk Jr., E.B. White (1962). “the Elements of Style”

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