Quotes About Exaggeration

The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold.

Satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.

Tuchman's Law, as follows: "The fact of being reported multiplies the apparent extent of any deplorable development by five- to tenfold

I faked PMS. I even added an extra day for the heck of it.

He wasn't just dead; he was severely dead. He was one of the deadest people Hughes had ever seen, and Hughes had seen quite a few.

All fishermen are liars; it's an occupational disease with them like housemaid's knee or editor's ulcers.

The idea of saying 'the handsome Pete Holmes' is preposterous.

It's not just in my industry... everything is so sensationalized that there's not a lot of heart and soul in a lot of things there used to be heart and soul in.

People are really exercised about one particular thing, and that is themselves. They will bore you endlessly with their broken hearts.

In the heat of the moment things get blown out of hand.

Dirt is a thing people make too much fuss about.

Whoever writes about his childhood must beware of exaggeration and self-pity. I do not want to claim that I was a martyr or that Crossgates was a sort of Dotheboys Hall. But I should be falsifying my own memories if I did not record that they are largely memories of disgust.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

Thomas: Wow, that treehouse is like twice the size of our actual house. Pam (whispering): Don't say 'like.' Me: Oh, ha ha, let him say what he wants, let's not be-- Thomas: That treehouse is twice the size of our actual house.

Storytelling in Appalachian culture - it runs deep. You have these communities and families that, for a long time, were isolated, and if you did have time off after working to keep everything going, you'd sit around and just yak, just talk and tell tall tales and flat-out lies and try to one-up the guy who just told a story.

Put it this way: I can wear three wigs at one time and three pairs of eyelashes. That's some strength there. And I roll my eyes extensively, so they get a good workout on a daily basis.

Vellimoonga' works at the box office because there is an inherent honesty to the film. Nothing about the movie has been exaggerated; it's a comedy that is clean and maintains a certain standard that harks back to Malayalam cinema's past.

We overhype everything. We create monumental myths. There are people who still believe that Brandi Chastain and the U.S. women's World Cup team pulled off the equivalent of the Miracle on Ice.

Although television and newspapers have played the biggest role in hyping up the World Cup, they are at the lowest end of the megabuck chain.

In the world of 'Tim and Eric,' everything is big and ridiculous and absurd.

When I'm writing, I like to have a tiny bit of fact and then exaggerate it and turn it into something more people could relate to.

I'd say my fashion or beauty tip is to take the thing about you that makes you most distinctive and then exaggerate it. So if you have a little bushy unibrow, make it a dramatic unibrow. If you're balding, go completely bald.

I have Googled so many things related to possible diseases, and it's always ridiculous. Like, 'My toe is hurting. Do I have cancer?' 'I have a scratch in my eye. Am I going to die soon?' 'Is eating a soup going to make me die?'

The joy in telling a story is in the magic of spinning the tale, not in the number of exaggerations you can create." "So you say. And who's to say I was exaggerating?" "I do." "That's because you're six-foot-plus and more brawn than--" "More brawn than what?" "Than a five-foot-tall woman of undisclosed weight." "Now there's another difference in how I'd tell the story. I'd use the word insufficient to describe your weight.