Emphasis

Famous quotes containing the word emphasis:

“The scholar might frequently emulate the propriety and emphasis of the farmer’s call to his team, and confess that if that were written it would surpass his labored sentences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“What your heart thinks great is great. The soul’s emphasis is always right.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“No author has created with less emphasis such pathetic characters as Chekhov has....”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)