Quotes About Exaggeration

I've talked about my relationship without consulting my boyfriend about whether or not he wants that talked about, and I've also taken a story that has happened with us and, for comedic purposes, exaggerated it or changed it in some way that made him look not great.

On stage, I'm really, really tall. I'm five-foot-9, but on stage, I'm, like, six-foot-5.

It's really easy, once somebody passes away, for the tales about them to become taller, the good ones and the bad ones.

I come from a long line of tall-tale talkers. Our family crest is bullets over crossed fingers and underneath it says, 'Bullshit Über Alles.

The only way I can attract more attention is if I was towing a Spanish galleon full of half-naked cheerleaders with flare guns.

Oh God. It's like you're smoking a pig's ass, and the pig isn't well.

was sweating like a fat Eskimo at the equator.

You know, I might miss some of your witticisms when you're gone, but one thing I won't miss? Your overwhelming sense of melodrama and despair. It's too much even for me.

All grown-ups appear as giants to small children. But Headmasters (and policemen) are the biggest giants of all and acquire a marvellously exaggerated stature.

They is all at least two times my wideness and double my royal highness!

The picture showed a nine-year-old boy who was so enormously fat he looked as though he had been blown up with a powerful pump.

I needed a space suit the way a pig needs a pipe organ.

Would you regard it as a monstrous satirical exaggeration on my part or a mere statement of anthropological fact, if I assert that art criticism is the only place in the modern world, outside the Vatican, where medieval metaphysics (the Aristotelian absolute is) still flourishes?

When you have success, be extra wary. When you are angry, take no action. When you are fearful, know you are going to exaggerate the dangers you face.

Do not be afraid to exaggerate the role of willpower. It is an exaggeration with a purpose. It leads to a positive self-fulfilling dynamic, and that is all you care about. See this shaping of your attitude as your most important creation in life, and never leave it to chance.

If the story had been about anyone else, it would been dismissed as laaf, that Afghan tendency to exaggerate ---sadly, almost a national affliction; if someone bragged that his son was a doctor, chances were the kid had once passed a biology test in high school.

But big people's illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

Good God, the man is dumber than Tink's dildo...

The trouble with the hypochondriac is that he will be wrong about his condition nine hundred and ninety-nine times.

Wow, he must get more ass than a toilet seat!

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred

It's a small closet."... "It's a walk-in the size of Rhode Island, " he teased... "Isn't that just like a man to exaggerate the size of something?

As we Chinese say, you don't have to pay tax on bullshit. That being so, why not bullshit to the max?

Your like Martha Stewart on crack," my neighbor shouted as I stuck another cardinal in with the daisies.