Emphasise Means Quotes & Sayings

No olive?" I said. "Only a fucking beast would have an olive in his martini, — Robert B. Parker

Watching my daughter sort of live in this world where a photograph is not something to keep a memory. It's something to just speak with. It's language. — Alec Soth

The key to understanding if something is truly precious is to ask if we can hold it, for things truly precious cannot be held. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Literary theories will not make a writer write. — Allen Wier

Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible. — Pliny The Elder

I think part of being a parent is trying to kill your kids. — Stephen King

Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure. — James Joyce

Weed Rises to his feet. "Nature," he says softly, "makes so many beautiful things. But I did not know until you that nature could make a girl so beautiful. — Maryrose Wood

She dealt her pretty words like Blades
How glittering they shone
And every One unbared a Nerve
Or wantoned with a Bone
She never deemed
she hurt
That
is not Steel's Affair
A vulgar grimace in the Flesh
How ill the Creatures bear
To Ache is human
not polite
The Film upon the eye
Mortality's old Custom
Just locking up
to Die. — Emily Dickinson

The translator ... Peculiar outcast, ghost in the world of literature, recreating in another form something already created, creating and not creating, writing words that are his own and not his own, writing a work not original to him, composing with utmost pains and without recognition of his pains or the fact that the composition really is his own. — Lydia Davis

Competitive advantage is a companys ability to perform in one or more ways that competitors cannot or will not match. — Philip Kotler

The initial planting of seedlings at the start of a forestry study represents a weary victory, won by a stoic researcher with a strong sense of fatalism. This unique intellectual agony shapes the character of the tree experimentalist and selects for those with a religious devotion to science. Patient, with overtones of masochism. — Hope Jahren