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Part of the American Film Institute's 100 Years... series, AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movie Quotes is a list of the top 100 quotations in American cinema. [1] The American Film Institute revealed the list on June 21, 2005, in a three-hour television program on CBS .
Air quotes, also called finger quotes, are virtual quotation marks formed in the air with one's fingers when speaking. The gesture is typically done with both hands held shoulder-width apart and at the eye or shoulders level of the speaker, with the index and middle fingers on each hand flexing at the beginning and end of the phrase being ...
Brandon Sanderson, in his Mistborn and Stormlight Archive series uses various epigraphs including letters between various gods, so-called "death rattles" and quotes from the villain's diary. Edward Gorey 's The Unstrung Harp is not only about a fictitious novel, but its author thinks of a fictional verse for its epigraph.
In this example, a pull quote is centered between two columns. The text has been "pulled" from the bottom of the first column. In graphic design, a pull quote (also known as a lift-out pull quote) is a key phrase, quotation, or excerpt that has been "pulled" from an article and used as a page layout graphic element, serving to entice readers into the article or to highlight a key topic.
Heavily-stylized example of a block quotation. A block quotation (also known as a long quotation or extract) is a quotation in a written document that is set off from the main text as a paragraph, or block of text, and typically distinguished visually using indentation and a different typeface or smaller size font.
In operation users would insert an PC-compatible floppy disc into the unit, at which point the data would be transmitted automatically to a receiver, which would write an image of the data on a local floppy disc.
A financial quotation refers to specific market data relating to a security or commodity.While the term quote specifically refers to the bid price or ask price of an instrument, it may be more generically used to relate to the last price which this security traded at ("last sale"). [1]
Typhoon Ampil was a powerful tropical cyclone that threatened Japan's Tokyo Metropolitan Area since Faxai in 2019 and brought torrential gusty winds to Alaska in early August 2024.