Quotes About Emphasis

I make preparations both to live and to die every day, but with the emphasis on not dying, and on acting as if I was going to carry on living.

With its emphasis on star power, the Obama campaign from Day One emphasized the candidate's perfectly cut presidential presence.

A word can change so much depending on how you say it, or how you sing it.

Humans can really reveal themselves through what they choose to see as the most important or meaningful detail in an image.

I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine.

The Tea Party movement's economic agenda is a matter of emphasis, not exclusion. This is not a single-issue group.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

Think about how you can preserve the use-case emphasis of your architecture. Develop a strategy that prevents the framework from taking over that architecture.

We want to make good time, but for us now this is measured with emphasis on "good" rather than "time" and when you make that shift in emphasis the whole approach changes.

Rilla was fond of italics, as most girls of fifteen are.

You can't have many exclamation points left,' thought Anne, 'but no doubt the supply of italics is inexhaustible.

Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.

The emphasis on final causality, the answer to the ultimate Why, was abandoned in favor of the descriptive how — how it operates, not why it is there in the first place.

No word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. —Mark Twain

People should not consider so much what they are to do as what they are. … Thus take care that your emphasis is laid on being good and not on the number or kind of things to be done. Emphasize rather the fundamentals on which your work rests.

That is about the limit, exclaimed Flinders with some emphasis. Do you know, Carrados, if I hadn't always led a very blameless life I should be afraid to have you around the place.

I'll tell every one in the world that you are the only one that matters.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time.

connect two clauses, the second of which refers to something that results from the first: there was a flash flood and by the next morning the town was under water. - connecting two identical comparatives, to emphasize a progressive change: getting better and better. - connecting two identical words, implying great duration or great extent: I cried and cried. - used to connect two identical

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door.

Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive and psychology whereas thrillers rely more heavily on action and plot.

Modern society places an emphasis on individual responsibility, whereas Islam places an emphasis on collective responsibility and the family.