Emphatic State

Famous quotes containing the words emphatic and/or state:

    “Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.”
    —Jonathan Raban (b. 1942)

    “A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.”
    —Herman Melville (1819–1891)