Best 82 quotes in «exaggeration quotes» category

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

Mark Twain put it best when he said, 'Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated.

It would be an exaggeration to say I’m not afraid of death, but I’m not afraid of what comes after, because I’m not a believer.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

My act is an exaggeration of a part of me. I'm much more expressive off stage.

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.

Michael Jackson is a very weird impulse. It was the exploration of something overtly pop, to the point where pop is kitsch. It's also an exaggeration when placed across from the race riots. Because again you have the police department and you have Michael Jackson.

Poets and writers who are in love with the superlative all want to do more than they can.

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

The report of my illness grew out of his (James Clemens) illness. The report of my death was an exaggeration.

So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration

The Democrats do not like free speech. And that's not an exaggeration.

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

There is true color, there is nature without exaggeration, without forced brilliance! He is exact.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.

We depend on you to do the right thing; right for both you and the company. It is no exaggeration to say that IBM's reputation is in your hands.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

You know what's the greatest part of anything ever in the history of everything? Exaggeration. No, wait; it's correcting yourself. No, better yet, it's making lists.

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull.

As a comedian, the more you commit the sin of stupidity, three essential things happen to your life: ~people applaud you incessantly. ~love you more than their parents. ~give you a daily bread.

Dana raised her hand. "I learned about exaggeration," she said. "It was all my teacher ever talked about. We had like ten thousand tests on it, and the teacher would kill you if you didn't spell it right." "That's very good, Dana!" said Mrs. Jewls. "You learned your lesson well.

Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors, Bells in your parlours, wild cats in your kitchens, Saints in your injuries, devils being offended, Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds.

Darkness exaggerates the size of a spark.

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.

Dramatization is not exaggeration.

Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.

Exaggeration is the melodramatic child of truth.

Exaggeration in every sense is as essential to newspaper writing as it is to the writing of plays: for the point is to make as much as possible of every occurrence. So that all newspaper writers are, for the sake of their trade, alarmists: this is their way of making themselves interesting. What they really do, however, is resemble little dogs who, as soon as anything whatever moves, start up a loud barking. It is necessary, therefore, not to pay too much attention to their alarms, and to realize in general that the newspaper is a magnifying glass, and this only at best: for very often it is no more than a shadow-play on the wall.

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

Exaggeration is a standard peculiarity of man. To deprecate is often a form of exaggeration which people do not notice, because it appears to be its opposite.

If they could, women would put make-up on the rainbow.

If you use the term 'over-exaggerate,' you know the definition neither of 'exaggerate' nor of 'over.

I was thinking about … how disarming is the ability to make people laugh. It’s a gift, mimicry, but it’s not acting; in a way it’s the opposite of acting, which is why comedians are seldom good actors. There’s an element of exaggeration in the imposture; the copy is the original painted with a broad brush and it can be grotesque, even cruel. But no one is offended. People are drawn to the funnyman who can imitate a politician or a famous actor or an ethnic type, especially his own ethnic type.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

Maybe that's what writers do- Maybe they exaggerate pain just so that you feel okay about what you're feeling.

That night she wrote a hasty sketch and showed it to Oliver. "It's all right," he said. "But I'd take out that stuff about Olympian mountains and the Stygian caverns of the mine. That's about used up, I should think.

The first glance at the pillow showed me a repulsive sentinel perched upon each end of it--cockroaches as large as peach leaves--fellows with long, quivering antennae and fiery, malignant eyes. They were grating their teeth like tobacco worms, and appeared to be dissatisfied about something. I had often heard that these reptiles were in the habit of eating off sleeping sailors' toe nails down to the quick, and I would not get in the bunk any more. I lay down on the floor. But a rat came and bothered me, and shortly afterward a procession of cockroaches arrived and camped in my hair. In a few moments the rooster was crowing with uncommon spirit and a party of fleas were throwing double somersaults about my person in the wildest disorder, and taking a bite every time they stuck. I was beginning to feel really annoyed. I got up and put my clothes on and went on deck. The above is not overdrawn; it is a truthful sketch of inter-island schooner life.

The hype cheapens the hyped, as right things are then made wrong by exaggeration.

The more you exaggerate, the more you will look funny!

There is a kind of gaping admiration that would fain roll Shakespeare and Bacon into one, to have a bigger thing to gape at; and a class of men who cannot edit one author without disparaging all others.