Quotes About Exaggeration

I think a lot of things get blown out of proportion in the media.

I feel like everything with me gets blown out of proportion. I think it's because I'm so quiet about things that people just run with anything they hear.

I sounded like Bob Dylan for about five minutes, and it was blown out of all proportion.

Bollywood marketing is larger-than-life. Honestly, it amuses me.

My name is Bruce Feiler, and I'm an explainaholic. I first heard this word used to describe Isaac Asimov, and I knew instantly that I suffered from the same condition. It's the incurable desire to tell, shape, share, occasionally exaggerate, often elongate, and inevitably bungle a good story.

There is no one who does not exaggerate. In conversation, men are encumbered with personality, and talk to much.

Last, we may suppose that it gave pleasure both to relate and to hear wonderful stories, because such is human nature; and the pleasure can be increased, at least till the point of incredulity is reached, by exaggerating the wonderful. So some real happening at the base of an account may be reconstructed by shrinking the account down to the physically possible.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration ... and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose—as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

If every vampire who said he was at The Crucifixion, was actually there, it would have been like Woodstock . . .

The tone we want to avoid is melodrama.

De ce sunt atât de sufocant?? Chiar am un mod exagerat de a aborda relaÈ›iile? Drept urmare, Janet a aflat c? ea se temea enorm s? nu fie respins? din cauza suferinÈ›ei îndurate în trecut, astfel încât atunci când cineva se ar?ta chiar ÅŸi puÈ›in prietenos cu ea, ea îÅŸi dorea s? fie mereu în preajma acelei persoane de team? s? nu piard? acea relaÈ›ie.

Instead of a sneeze, what emerged sounded like an elephant strangling on a trumpet.

Firmly, taking her chin between his thumb and forefinger,Nick turned her face up to his, forcing her to look into his teasing gray eyes. If I'm so beautiful, why won't you look at me? That was a silly thing for me to tell you, Lauren apologized with quiet dignity, and... It was definitely a gross exaggeration- he smiled, taking his hand away from her chin -but I liked it.And, in case you're interested, he added, his voice turning husky, no one has ever told me that before.

All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

This was one of the unfortunate consequences of exaggerating the enemy's evil. You were obligated to exaggerate your own virtues as well. To counter the enemy's fiendish subversion, you wielded a blunt instrument of righteousness. And then you got a congressional committee of yahoos with subpoena power and God on their side...If only, Axel thought. If only they weren't so god damned dumb.

Perhaps you're being oversensitive and a bit overdramatic.

It was one of the greatest errors in evaluating dictatorship to say that the dictator forces himself on society against its own will. In reality, every dictator in history was nothing but the accentuation of already existing state ideas which he had only to exaggerate in order to gain power

The halo effect helps keep explanatory narratives simple and coherent by exaggerating the consistency of evaluations: good people do only good things and bad people are all bad. The statement "Hitler loved dogs and little children" is shocking no matter how many times you hear it, because any trace of kindness in someone so evil violates the expectations set up by the halo effect. Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

The combination of probability neglect with the social mechanisms of availability cascades inevitably leads to gross exaggeration of minor threats, sometimes with important consequences.

The strong bias toward believing that small samples closely resemble the population from which they are drawn is also part of a larger story: we are prone to exaggerate the consistency and coherence of what we see.

If an event had actually occurred, people exaggerated the probability that they had assigned to it earlier.

The halo effect helps keep explanatory narratives simple and coherent by exaggerating the consistency of evaluations: good people do only good things and bad people are all bad.

The danger is increasingly exaggerated as the media compete for attention-grabbing headlines. Scientists and others who try to dampen the increasing fear and revulsion attract little attention, most of it hostile: anyone who claims that the danger is overstated is suspected of association with a "heinous cover-up.