Quotes About Exaggeration

For the average person, taken to their sick bed, it takes a serious bout of pneumonia or a full body cast to completely forget the life they had prior to falling off the rollercoaster. I, however, will do this over a paper cut on my thumb, obsessing of said cut and being generally consumed by it.

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.

I've got a good imagination, so I can see someone arguing over a parking ticket and imagine they're getting a divorce or something.

The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and in exactly the right places.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Try as you may, you don't get down as you would from a horse, you get down as you would from a house afire. You make a spectacle of yourself every time.

You're treating me like I have barf in my hair.

Like he was trying to make it the Four Seasons of kidnapping situations.

My wife is so fat that the last time I saw something that big it was grazing.

I've told you for the fifty-thousandth time, stop exaggerating. Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

Last time I saw a mouth like that, it had a hook in it.

If a football official were to call for a slow-motion replay every time Didier Drogba fell over, each match would last about six weeks.

over protective? a butler in a grade- B movie? someones jewish mother? you got it

L'ipocrisia degli uomini? Non esageriamola. La maggior parte pensa troppo poco per pensare doppio.

Let us stop making unjustified claims and exaggerated projections about the future even if the editors of some eminent journals are just waiting to publish them.

saying it gets warmer or colder by a few tenths of a degree, should be taken as evidence that the end of the world is coming.

The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.

Verbal description of everything, however, must remain infinitely distant from the thing itself, overstatement and understatement sometimes hitting off the truth better than a flat assertion of bare fact.

Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life.

Pero nadie pensaba que llegaría muy lejos, porque ni siquiera creo que fuera capaz de integrar e elevado a x. - ¿Es posible tal ignorancia? - preguntó alguien con asombro. - Puede que esté exagerando. Digamos x por e elevado a x.

To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.