Quotes About Exaggeration

Subestimarse es algo tan alejado de la verdad como exagerar las propias facultades.

You make mountains out of molehills.

Exaggeration in every sense is as essential to newspaper writing as it is to the writing of plays: for the point is to make as much as possible of every occurrence. So that all newspaper writers are, for the sake of their trade, alarmists: this is their way of making themselves interesting.

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic art; for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Thus it is that all journalists are, in the very nature of their calling, alarmists; and this is their way of giving interest to what they write. Herein

Exaggeration of every kind is as essential to journalism as it is to the dramatic art; for the object of journalism is to make events go as far as possible. Thus it is that all journalists are, in the very nature of their calling, alarmists; and this is their way of giving interest to what they write. Herein they are like little dogs; if anything stirs, they immediately set up a shrill bark.

The true emblem of causa sui is Baron Münchhausen, who, clamping his legs around his horse as it sinks in the water, pulls his pigtail up over his head and raises himself and the horse into the heights; under this emblem, put: causa sui.

I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

I don't really take much notice of rumours Sir," Andrew said, straight faced. "Good man. Neither do I. Mostly lies and the rest exaggeration.

Senator John Kyle claiming that over 90 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Stephen Colbert: Over 90 percent, that is unbelievable...in that it is not true. Only 3 percent of what Planned Parenthood does is abortion. Kyle just rounded it up to the nearest 90.

had to pee like a racehorse at an Iced Tea convention.

It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

My pants are on fire!

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he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public view had been compared variously to a giant frankfurter, an overfed python, a length of led piping, the trunk of a rogue elephant, a barrage balloon, an airport-sized Toblerone and a roll of wet wallpaper.

Listen Charles, if blondes were poison, I'd have died thirty years ago.

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.

It's like a blueberry White Russian,' John said, now on his third spoonful. 'It tastes exactly the same,' Mike said, his teeth already bright blue. 'No, no, it tastes better,' John said. 'I feel like it's making me stronger.

The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.

The average comedian is kind of an observer looking at everyday things that everyone could relate to and then trying to find the exaggeration in those things.

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.

My wife loves 'Scandal,' and I'm hooked on 'Homeland.' Sometimes I ask news makers, off the record, what rings true about those shows and what's ridiculous.

All the media are horrible.

I do think there is a great deal of caricature around the House of Commons. It is just that kind of place.