Best 82 quotes in «exaggeration quotes» category

I think there has been an exaggeration [of the terrorist threat].

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.

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

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

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

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.

Magnifying a matter is not the way to mend it.

I was, without exaggeration, a delinquent teenager.

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

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

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

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

There is no greater sin than to be trop prononce.

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

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

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

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

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

The latter estimate is certainly an extravagant exaggeration

Tis a rule of manners to avoid exaggeration.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Adding more bull to bull yields bigger bull.

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

Anything which you have in profusion is poison

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.

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.

Dramatization is not exaggeration.

Every fact in this city soon succumbs to magical fraud.

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

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.

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.

Exaggeration is the kissing cousin of both truth and lie.

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.

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.

In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated.

May be it is good that we can’t quickly and easily turn the things we imagine into reality because had we had such a talent we would have so exaggerated it!

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

My mother exaggerates as often as she can. I'm sure she would like nothing more than to be part of a Greek tragedy. She wouldn't even want a large part, she'd be perfectly content with a chorus role, warning that fate is coming to make havoc of all things.

Love songs are nothing without exaggeration.

Never exaggerate. It is a matter of great importance to forego superlatives, in part to avoid offending the truth, and in part to avoid cheapening your judgment. Exaggeration wastes distinction and testifies to the paucity of your understanding and taste. Praise excites anticipation and stimulates desire. Afterwards when value does not measure up to price, disappointment turns against the fraud and takes revenge by cheapening both the appraised and the appraise. For this reason let the prudent go slowly, and err in understatement rather than overstatement. The extraordinary of every kind is always rare, wherefore temper your estimate.

Our nearness to our problems makes them seem way bigger than they are, while our farness from other people’s problems makes them seem way smaller than they are.