Quotes About Exaggeration

One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

What I like about the American woman is she usually has a lot of dynamism. In the U.S., women have a tendency to go forward, to be more exaggerated than in Europe. Many times the rough ideas come from the States, then they are refined in Europe. The American women and the French women are still the best-dressed.

Do you know what they say about big hands? Big gloves!

I think whether you're a movie critic and have seen a million movies, or you're just a normal popcorn movie watcher, you can tell the difference when someone is just laying it on too thick.

My lips are a lot thinner than what makeup artists usually create, because they make them almost graphic.

In first grade, I told my friends I had a third story in my house filled with jewels and lions.

Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.

I was overstating my case. I wasn't at all sure I had a case and I was overstating it. I have a tendency sometimes to start saying things I don't necessarily actually think, because I don't want people to leap too soon to conclude that I can't possibly think what I think they think I can't possibly think.

All Pennella ever did was brag about places he'd visited, money he spent, and people he met.

Of course they are gloomy; they drink a lot of vodka.

Yo Momma's is so fat that during Halloween, she never needs a costume, people already think she's a dinosaur.

Your so fat you got more tonnage than the U.S. navy.

It's the old elephant hunter joke, where a guy asserts he's the local elephant hunter, you respond that there aren't any elephants around there, and he, of course, says 'Yeah, see how good I am?

Why didn't you tell us you were the Alexander Black who can stand atop a cantering horse and shoot a hole through a plum at a hundred paces?" With a snort, Alec jerked his gaze away. "More like a cantaloupe. The thing shrinks with every retelling. Soon they'll have me shooting at a mustard seed.

My blessing is may all your dreams not come true... All of your dreams are just exaggerations of what you already know.

And this is true; this is how they do it. They take one little word out of what you say, ignore all the rest, and then begin to magnify it all over the world to make you look like what you actually aren't. And I'm very used to that

they were awful without being believable. They were too melodramatic, they had a dimension that was not the dimension of our lives.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

A two-pound turkey and a fifty-pound cranberry-that's Thanksgiving dinner at Three Mile Island.

When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Am I really so bad-mannered, conceited, headstrong, pushing, stupid, lazy, etc., etc., as they all say? Oh, of course not. I have my faults, just like everyone else, I kniw that, but they thoroughly exaggerate everything.

I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but the blow them all out of proportion!

I could make it vivid and funny, and even exaggerate some of it so that the event became almost mythical, and the people involved seemed larger, and there was a sense of larger significance, of meaning.