Exaggeration Quotes
One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is.
There is an abundance of misinformation, exaggeration, and blatant lies being spread by interest groups regarding the prospects for embryonic stem cell research.
Most people think that George Nelson, Charles Eames and Eliot Noyes invented industrial design. That is, of course, an exaggeration. George did it without any assistance from the other two.
Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to dramatic art, for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible.
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they actually can't tell the truth without lying.
Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.
An insult comic is the title I was given. What I do is exaggeration. I make fun of people, at life, of myself and my surroundings.
It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive.... We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.
Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality."
Men of great conversational powers almost universally practise a sort of lively sophistry and exaggeration which deceives for the moment both themselves and their auditors.
That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.
Optimism isnt funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. Its exaggeration.
It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.
An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
Exaggeration is a prodigality of the judgment which shows the narrowness of one's knowledge or one's taste.
Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.
In fact, without any exaggeration, the current mechanism of money creation through credit is certainly the "cancer" that's irretrievably eroding market economies of private property.
Like I said, all comedy is based on exaggeration, big or small, whatever you can get away with.
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.
By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.
I am persuaded that 'child abuse' is no exaggeration when used to describe what teachers and priests are doing to children whom they encourage to believe in something like...eternal hell.
There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk too much.
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.
The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.
We aim above the mark, to hit the mark. Every act hath some falsehood of exaggeration in it.
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
So cartooning, for me, is an honorable thing. It's pushing the envelope. It's the truth of something through exaggeration
There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side.
