Quotes About Exaggeration

Yo diría que barroco es aquel estilo que deliberadamente agota (o quiere agotar) sus posibilidades y que linda con su propia caricatura.

There is no tragedy so utter that a Belgian, with the best will in the world, can't make worse.

Hyperbolic rodomantade of the most puerile type.

And a wheat thin the size of Lake Tahoe.

Has it not got down as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death?

È più facile ingannare le masse con una fandonia esagerata che con una piccola bugia.

Inflated descriptions by the pen or exaggerated illustrations by the pencil.

As actors, we are expected to come up with an exaggerated performance, which is far from reality.

Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects.

Exaggeration is to paint a snake and add legs.

Sin is the blurring of truth which clouds the purity of our consciousness. In sin we lust after pleasures, not because they are truly desirable, but because the red light of our passions makes them appear desirable; we long for things not because they are great in themselves, but because our greed exaggerates them and makes them appear great.

we long for things not because they are great in themselves, but because our greed exaggerates them and makes them appear great.

the translator says that a sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal. Those lines concerned the art of writing, but looking around himself in early middle age my neighbour began to see that they applied just as much to the art of living.

Nessas linhas — que segundo o meu vizinho ele recordava até hoje — o tradutor afirma que uma frase nasce para este mundo nem boa, nem ruim, e que estabelecer sua natureza depende dos ajustes mais sutis possíveis, um processo intuitivo em que o exagero e a força são fatais.

A sentence is born into this world neither good nor bad, and that to establish its character is a question of the subtlest possible adjustments, a process of intuition to which exaggeration and force are fatal.

I think the most vulgar thing about Hollywood is the way it believes its own gossip.

Rising political tribalism, shamelessly exaggerating our opponents' claims or behavior, is leaving us vulnerable: No one loves America's internal fighting - and our increasingly siloed news consumption - more than Vladimir Putin.

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

The media makes a big deal of small issues.

It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

I love talking in lira because, suddenly, everything is in billions.

With comedy, it's not always a blessing to be beautiful because part of it is self-parody and gurning.

Social media can blow anything out of proportion.

Sometimes arguments get publicized so much that it gets blown all the hell out of proportion.