Emphasis Spreading

Famous quotes containing the words emphasis and/or spreading:

“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)

“As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)