Quotes About Exaggeration

Growing up as a miniature adult, burdened with duties, he developed an exaggerated sense of responsibility that would be evident throughout his life.

He was with a woman in a thousand-dollar dress, and between them they acted out all kinds of dissatisfied body language, telegraphing it, semaphoring it, huffing and puffing, getting more and more exaggerated, until even the doorman noticed.

At times it was impossible for him to control the praise and predictions that issued from him like thanks, and he was aware of exaggerating; yet he felt a boxer needed someone who believed in him, and if it were true that confidence could win fights, then he could not be sure his overestimates were really that at all. Guiding

I told you, we haven't had sex! It was just a kiss. Like the Viper was just a car, and Mount Everest was just a hill.

C'mon! Anything over eight inches is strictly for show-and-tell. It's there, but you can't use it. It might look good in a locker room, but let's face it—those extra two inches are leftovers." "Leftovers," Luna gasped, holding her stomach and shrieking with laughter. "Let's hear it for l-leftovers!

There is apparently no surer way of turning a thing into its opposite than by exaggerating it

Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.

We humans, it appears, are prone to overconfidence, herding behavior, unwarranted extrapolation of recent trends, and contagious waves of wishful thinking—all key ingredients of bubbles.

Memoria este un proces de editare care exagereaz? inevitabil unele episoade, le reprim? pe altele È™i aranjeaz? evenimentele într-o ordine mai clar?, dar nimeni nu recunoaÈ™te asta despre propria memorie.

Gohar smiled at the thought of El Kordi, at his exaggeration of his troubles, more fictitious than real, and his constant search for human dignity. What is most futile in man, he thought, is this search for dignity. All these people trying to maintain their dignity! For what? The history of mankind is a long, bloody nightmare only because of such nonsense.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

Naša nas taština tjera da preuveli?avamo ljudski život.

Todos tendemos a exagerar el valor de lo que por casualidad nos pertenece.

He was wondering how anyone could talk so loud, could boast so extravagantly. It was as though the man had to shout in order to convince himself of his own existence.

What do the Texans say? All hat, no cattle.

There are some very inventive adults, Mma. When you listen to them, you have to divide everything they say by two, and then take away ten. As you have to do with some politicians.

Two mountains in Greece, you see: Virgil refers to piling Pelion upon Ossa as a metaphor for adding one very large thing to another—going too far, in other words.

This wasn't just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it." [ Women Know Everything! ]

The 'rise of the far-right' in particular is such a trope in journalism that the far-right is said to be rising even when it is collapsing, as it did in Britain during the last decade.

Sea como fuere, toda exhibición de virtud requiere exagerar los problemas, lo que a su vez hace que los problemas crezcan todavía más.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

People in life, when they have a tendency to exaggerate or lie or whatever, you always sort of notice that their voice goes up quite high.

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!

The theatre, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated.