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)

    “Mother,
    each time I talk to God
    you interfere.
    You of the bla-bla set,
    carrying on about the state of letters.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)