Archive for October, 2009
How To Use Quotations in Your Writing
Friday, October 30th, 2009How to Add Quotes to Your Writing Quotations in writing gives added weight to the points you’re making, because you can cite an expert or famous person whose quote directly correlates to your point. The added emphasis quotations make in the body of an article or essay make it almost compulsory for someone writing such compositions to use quotes. Read through most an article in the newspaper and you’ll see the news piece spiked with quotes from eyewitnesses, authorities and experts on...
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How To Write an Inspirational Greeting Card
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009Writing Inspirational Greeting Cards Writing an inspirational greeting card is one of a number of money-making opportunities for freelance writers. A good inspirational greeting card finds a new way to phrase a common sentiment, because greeting card companies want to market to the widest possible customer base. When writing an inspirational greeting card, ask yourself if this is a phrase which would touch your heart or inspire you, if you were to receive it yourself. Keeping that general idea ...
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How To Use Quotes in Speeches and Presentations
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009Guide To Choosing Quotes for a Speech Using a quote to open a presentation and speech is a good way to sum up the theme of your lecture or discussion by getting the attention of your audience. When you’re new to public speaking, having a quote that’s worked for another speaker or writer before sometimes give you the confidence to give your presentation. Or maybe you want to crystallize your thoughts into one quick, cogent sentence. That’s where great quotations come in handy ...
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How To Choose Quotations For a Eulogy
Monday, October 26th, 2009Guide To Choosing Quotes For a Eulogy There are few things most people will do in life harder than giving a eulogy. When eulogizing a loved one, you might fear that your own words won’t suffice in summing up this person’s long life. If so, finding appropriate quotations for a eulogy might enhance the proper eulogy you intend on giving. Choosing quotations for a eulogy can be difficult in and of itself, because you don’t want to misrepresent what this person was about or what t...
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Quotes From The Office
Friday, October 23rd, 2009Here are some of our favorite quotes from The Office. Michael Scott Quotes Michael Scott: [at the Dundie awards] This year’s “Busiest Beaver” award goes to Phyllis Lapin! Phyllis: This says “Bushiest Beaver!” Michael Scott: I told them “Busiest”…idiots. Michael Scott: I was on a hot date with a girl from HR, Dwight… Dwight Schrute: Really? We don’t have any girls in HR. Michael Scott: You know for the sake of the story…and things ...
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Quotes From Step Brothers
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009“I’ll kill you, Leonard Nimoy!” “Stay golden, Ponyboy.” “Boats and hoes!” “I traveled 500 miles to give you my seed.” “I teabagged your drum set!” “I swear I’m so p____d off at my mom, as soon as she’s of age I’m putting her in a home.” “For a second there, I thought you were a unicorn”. “Your singing is like a mix of Jesus and Fergie!” “I feel like a lightning bolt just ...
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Quotes From He’s Just Not That Into You
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009Alex Quotes – He’s Just Not That Into You “You’re my exception.” “He is not interested.” “So trust me when I say if a guy is treating you like he doesn’t give a shit, he genuinely doesn’t give a shit. No exceptions.” Gigi: “Maybe his grandma died or maybe he lost my number or is out of town or got hit by a cab.” Alex: “Or maybe he is not interested in seeing you again.” Gigi: [Gigi's voice answering the ans...
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Quotes From The Hangover
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009Stu Quotes From The Hangover “Am I missing a tooth?” “I look like a nerdy hillbilly!” [singing]: “What do tigers dream of when they take their little tiger snooze? Do they dream of mauling zebras, or Halle Berry in her Catwoman suit? Don’t you worry your pretty striped head, we’re gonna get you back to Tyson and your cozy tiger bed. And then we’re gonna find our best friend Doug, and then we’re gonna give him a best friend hug. Doug, Doug, oh...
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Quotes From Twilight
Monday, October 19th, 2009Bella Swan Quotes – Twilight Quotes “Clearly, today was going to be nightmarish.” “Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something.” “Good luck tended to avoid me.” “My mother is part albino.” “I tried to be diplomatic, but mostly I just lied a lot.” “I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who ma...
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Love Quotes From Poems
Friday, October 16th, 2009“Not easy to state the change you made/If I’m alive now, then I was dead.” – Sylvia Plath (Love Letter) “For I could not love thee, Dear, so much, loved I not honour more.” – Richard Lovelace (Tell Me Not, Sweet) “Her very frowns are fairer far than smiles of other maidens are”. – Hartley Coleridge (She Is Not Fair To Outward View) “Tired with all these, from these would I be gone, Save that, to die, I leave my love alone.” – William Shakespear...
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